Survivors and child welfare experts have called for sweeping reforms to ensure protection of children in foster care, saying they are among the most vulnerable to human trafficking because of trauma, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A teenage girl in the foster care system was forced into prostitution by an Ohio woman, who is facing a slew of criminal charges, ...

May is National Foster Care Month. Foster care is often the only possible choice for children who face almost unthinkably bad conditions when living at home. Even so, a worthwhile goal for foster care ...

According to a Department of Justice report title Child Sex Trafficking in the United States, “Federal prosecutions of child-only sex trafficking cases increased 17% from 2019 to 2020, and children ...

The Trump administration has ordered caregivers for migrant children to stop reporting human trafficking concerns directly to the office created to help victims, a change that critics say could make ...

Lawyers launched a new tool within an app to help foster youth who are at risk of human trafficking. Foster youth are at a higher risk of trafficking, and a lack of foster homes and stability ...

Three Palm Beach County men will spend between 12 and nearly 20 years in federal prison for trafficking and sexually exploiting three teenage girls who had run away from foster care. U.S. District ...