"Policymakers, researchers, and high-profile advocates from across the nation convened at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health today to address the needs of child sex trafficking survivors in the United States. The first-of-its-kind symposium is focusing on children, mostly female, who have been victims of commercial sexual exploitation....
"Sebelius said that President Barack Obama and his administration have made addressing child trafficking a priority across all agencies of federal government. They are working on the local level with faith-based groups, she said, providing in-person training to first responders, and have set up a national child trafficking hotline in an effort to identify victims...."
http://hub.jhu.edu/2013/05/01/child-sex-trafficking-symposium
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