human trafficking

The University of Toledo's Human Trafficking and Social Justice Institute is developing a screener to identify victims of human trafficking. It'll be used statewide to develop intervention strategies.

Harold D’Souza and his wife, Dancy, moved to Greater Cincinnati from India nearly 20 years ago to pursue the American dream. Instead, they became victims of labor trafficking and debt bondage. Now they work to help others avoid a similar fate.

Sex and labor trafficking is widespread, but research shows the likelihood of it increases around major events that attract large numbers of tourists.

Gathering data is often hampered by the hidden nature of the crime and challenges in identifying individual victims.

"Rescue" in Ohio can look like handcuffs, spit hoods, jail time or court dates.

Republican Attorney General Dave Yost said the men were arrested in 17 communities, including Elyria City Council Member Mark Jessie, a firefighter, a teacher and a professor.

Around 50 law enforcement agencies have arrested 177 people and found 109 survivors in what’s considered the largest human trafficking sting ever in Ohio.

Ohio lawmakers are proposing a new bill to crack down on human trafficking by going after the people who fund the practice – those who recruit and force...

Eleven-hundred police, prosecutors, community activists and survivors are in Cincinnati for a sold-out conference Oct. 15-17 on juvenile sex trafficking.…

A three-day, multi-agency, undercover human trafficking sting in Central Ohio has resulted in 104 people being arrested. This sting is just the latest...