Lake Worth is a city of under 5,000 residents in Tarrant County, Texas. The city is adjacent to the lake it is named after, a popular recreational lake in the northwestern portion of Tarrant County. Lake Worth is located roughly 8 miles northwest of Fort Worth and 40 miles west of Dallas. Child sex trafficking […]
Laurens County is a county of about 68,000 in upstate South Carolina, and is included in the Greenville, SC Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its county seat is Laurens. Prostitution has occurred in the area, in connection with drugs and theft, as well as documented child sex trafficking. To combat demand, sex buyer arrests and identity disclosure […]
Laurens is a city of about 9,000 and is the county seat of Laurens County, South Carolina. It is located upstate, about 70 miles northwest of Columbia. At least one reverse sting and one opportunistic sex buyer arrest have occurred in the city. In July 2017, Laurens City Police arrested two Laurens County men and […]
South Middleton Township is a municipality of about 15,000 residents in Cumberland County, located in southern Pennsylvania. Cumberland County is included in the Harrisburg–Carlisle, PA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county is known to have been on regional sex trafficking circuits since the 1980s, if not before, and local prostitution has been a persistent problem, particularly along […]
Oak Hill is a village in Jackson County, located in southeastern Ohio, with a population of approximately 1,400 residents. Consumer-level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and demand reduction tactics used in the village include the arrest of sex buyers and the public disclosure of their identities. For example, in […]
Lisbon is a village of about 3,000 residents and is the county seat of Columbiana County, Ohio. Located along the Little Beaver Creek, it is a part of the Salem micropolitan area, about 23 miles southwest of Youngstown. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the county and surrounding areas. To address consumer-level demand, […]
Lake County is a county of about 232,000 residents in northeast Ohio, located east of Cleveland on the southern shore of Lake Erie. The county seat is Painesville. Prostitution and sex trafficking have been documented in the county. For example, in September 2013, a 64-year-old man was arrested in Painsville for allegedly trying to solicit […]
Wickliffe is a city of about 13,000 residents in Lake County, Ohio. Located in northeast Ohio, it is a suburb of Cleveland. Prostitution and related drug use have been documented in the city and surrounding areas. To address these problems, at least one web-based reverse sting has been conducted in they city. In February 2023, […]
Bad Axe is a city of about 3,000 residents and is the county seat of Huron County, Michigan. The city is located in the Thumb region of the Lower Peninsula. At least one web-based reverse sting has occurred in the city. In March 2023, two men arrested in a July 2022 sting pleaded “no contest” […]
Bainbridge is a city of about 14,000 residents and is the county seat of Decatur County, Georgia. Sex trafficking of both adults and children has occurred locally. At least one web-based reverse sting has occurred in the city. In March 2023, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) conducted an undercover online investigation targeting child predators […]
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