• Lisa Ricchio recently settled a first-of-its-kind lawsuit under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. She sued the motel where she was held captive, accusing it of turning a blind eye to her abuse.
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• State leaders, law enforcement and experts in the field of trafficking joined survivors at the Human Trafficking Summit Monday in Orlando.
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• Derek Shay was 17 when he ran away from home. Stranded near Las Vegas and desperate for money, he was an easy victim for human trafficking in the area. He eventually escaped to central Florida after two years and turned to Homeless Services and later Zebra Coalition for help.
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• Two Orange County massage parlors have been shut down in connection with the statewide sex trafficking and prostitution sting that netted New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft.
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• The National Human Trafficking Hotline says most sex trafficking in the United States last year took place in a hotel or motel. A bill that was recently postponed in the Florida Senate would have introduced penalties for management that ignored sex trafficking.
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• In the shadows of the Sunshine State’s tourism industry, people are suffering through modern day slavery. Florida ranks third in the number of calls to the National Human Trafficking Resource Center hotline following California and Texas. We look at how one 19 year-old in Orlando is transitioning out of a life of sex trafficking.
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