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Training to Spot Human Trafficking Can Save Victims

Law Enforcement agents this weekend credited a Springfield, Tennessee hotel staff with their training in human trafficking. It led to the arrest of a Livingston man accused of sex with an underage girl. Rana Zakaria is Community Educator for the Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking. Zakaria said training healthcare workers, school staffs and hotels on how to identify trafficking is ... Read More »

Hotel Human Trafficking Arrest, Most Cases Start at Home

A Livingston man was arrested with a child after a human trafficking investigation at a hotel in Springfield, Tennessee. Community Coalition Against Human Trafficking Community Educator Rana Zakaria said rural parts of Tennessee can be high risk areas because of geographic isolation and less job opportunities. However, Zakaria said abduction is not the most common way human trafficking begins. “Most ... Read More »