Human Trafficking: Two Corporations Join The Fight

January 17, 2019 Human Trafficking
Anyone who has followed the DVM For Hope blog or facebook page is by now well educated about the issue of human trafficking. In my very first post, I wrote about how 100,000 to 300,000 American children were trapped in the modern day evil of Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking. In…

Sex Trafficking and Internet Safety

December 2, 2018 Internet Safety
A Houston Case Highlights Internet Safety Risks In September of 2018, a 23 year-old Houston, Texas man was arrested for using social media sites to recruit underage girls for prostitution. Like many pimps who traffic young girls, Malik Hayman identified vulnerable girls, some of whom were as young as 14,…

Ten Ways You Can Help End Sex Trafficking

October 24, 2018 Human Trafficking Legislation
Sometimes, society’s problems can seem so big as to defy any real solution. Sex trafficking is no different. In my own city, sexual exploitation is a $290 million a year industry where some 12,400 men buy sex monthly (I discussed sex trafficking in Atlanta in a recent blog post). Nationwide,…

Gendercide: 163 Million Missing Girls

October 7, 2018 Gendercide
Several years ago, before I had ever considered writing about such injustices as sex trafficking, FGM, or human slavery, I was researching another subject when I came across a book titled The War On Women: The World’s Worst Holocaust And How Christians Are Saving One Girl At A Time. This…

Human Trafficking: A Christian Perspective

September 28, 2018 Human Trafficking
On October 18, 2018 at 7:00 PM, I will be moderating a class discussion on human trafficking: a Christian perspective for the Just Faith class at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Marietta. I was asked to write an insert that will be included in the bulletin on the Sunday before…

Fighting Injustice: What The Bible Says To Me

September 9, 2018 Christianity
The DVM For Hope blog is not overtly religious, but I am a Catholic Christian. As such, my desire to fight injustice is driven by my Christian values and by my desire to follow Christ, whom I consider my Lord and Savior. In these increasingly secular times, that statement may…

A Sex-Trafficking Case In Marietta

August 31, 2018 Human Trafficking
In a past DVM For Hope blog post, I wrote about sex trafficking in my home state of Georgia. Recently, Shared Hope International gave Georgia a grade of “B” in their Protected Innocence Challenge, meaning that the state has made great strides in the fight against sex trafficking. The news…

Human Trafficking And The Temporary Work Visa System

August 18, 2018 Human Trafficking
In my last blog post entitled Human Trafficking In Native American Communities, I wrote that human traffickers are experts at exploiting vulnerable populations. That post includes a list of risk factors that make persons vulnerable to these predators. On June 5th, Polaris, a leading organization in the fight against human…