Last year, an Oklahoma family court judge ordered that a six-year-old girl’s father be given sole custody even though he’s a registered sex offender. The decision was so egregious it made headlines around the world, but experts in protecting children call it just another example of judicial sex trafficking in the United States.
“We think of human traffickers as sleazy characters evading the law, hiding in the shadows,” speaker Connie Valentine said at the Preventing Abuse Conference held in Tampa, Florida, in June. “But today we are here to talk to you about sex trafficking of children being done by upstanding citizens who are entrusted to uphold the law, in front of God and everyone.” [Read Full Article]
