sex trafficking

Community leaders have come up with a plan to fight sex trafficking during the Super Bowl in Minneapolis.

A Waite Park hair salon is teaming up with the Central Minnesota Sexual Assault Center to put an stop to sex trafficking.

Sex trafficking is an everyday problem that affects thousands. Here in central Minnesota, it is the subject of several area organizations.

A St. Cloud woman who pleaded guilty to sex trafficking will serve a year in jail, rather than the more than nine years in prison prosecutors were seeking.

Prosecutors in Minnesota have charged four suspects in an alleged sex-trafficking ring that targeted women who are Chinese nationals and kept them isolated.

What started out as a book club at Sartell High School has morphed into an effort to raise awareness about sex trafficking. StAT, or Students Against Trafficking started after the club read a novel about an American family who dealt with sex trafficking.

A St. Cloud man was arrested in a prostitution sting last November after he allegedly tried to pay a 15-year-old girl for sex. A felony count of prostitution was filed this week against 40-year-old Ryan Mulliner.

Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall and Waite Park Police Chief Dave Bentrud testified before a Minnesota House committee yesterday (Tuesday) to share stories of how they handle sex trafficking in central Minnesota.

Our eyes were opened earlier this year with the realization that sex trafficking is a huge problem here in the St. Cloud area.

A second person involved in trafficking two women for sex last spring has pleaded guilty and has also been sentenced for his role in the case. Twenty-seven-year-old Elijah Milsap of St. Cloud has been sentenced to 21-years in prison.