Sex Trafficking

Cracks in sidewalks on Higgins Avenue in downtown Missoula have been filled with red sand to build awareness about human trafficking in Montana and throughout the world.

January has been designated as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Awareness Month, and KGVO’s Talk Back show featured two special guests to discuss the issue on Tuesday.

Both law enforcement professionals and the general public benefited from a special conference on human trafficking that took place on Wednesday in the University of Montana Center.

This week the largest online sex trafficking marketplace in the world pleaded guilty to human trafficking.

One of the presentations at Thursday’s Sex Trafficking Community Awareness Conference at the University of Montana was the importance of understanding ‘Trauma Bonding’, from Julie Clark with the Salvation Army in Missoula.

The Sex Trafficking Community Awareness Conference specifically geared for the public was held in the University Center Theater all day Thursday.

On Wednesday morning, a federal jury in Billings found 35 year-old Terrence Tyrell Edwards of Missoula guilty on 10 counts of sex trafficking.

Ravalli County Sheriff Steve Holton ordered evacuations on Thursday due to the expansion of the Lolo Peak Fire.

Back in 1996, the United States Congress passed a law called the Communications Decency Act.

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A Billings man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for attempting to purchase two women to use as sex slaves in what he called a stone dungeon in the basement of his home.