sex trafficking

The mother of the 13-year-old girl kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man in North Carolina tracked her daughter’s online activity.

A missing 13-year-old girl from Dallas has been found locked in shed in North Carolina. Now investigators are laying out the arrest of a man and how the teen ended up more than a thousand miles away from home.

A man is facing a number of felony charges after a 13-year-old girl reported missing in Dallas two weeks ago was rescued from a locked outbuilding at his North Carolina residence.

Sophia Strother Lewis says she was born to well-to-do parents in Springfield, Massachusetts. Later living in rural Texas she says her mother sold her for sex as a child to help raise money for her mother’s drug habit and bills. She escaped as a 15-year-old mother herself with a desperate call to her grandmother. Lewis talks with NBC 5’s Ken...

A Collin County lawmaker is taking steps to end human trafficking after two dozen men were arrested in Frisco.

News of an undercover prostitution sting in Frisco and Southlake shocked many in those suburban communities. But those who work to stop sex trafficking say it’s not surprising at all.

News of an undercover sex trafficking sting in Frisco and Southlake shocked many in those suburban communities, but those who work to stop trafficking say it’s not surprising at all.

A high school teacher, a hockey player and the head of a hospital network: they are just a few of the 46 men recently arrested in a prostitution sting in North Texas. Meredith Yeomans has details.

Nearly two dozen men have been arrested for visiting the Plano brothel that was made public when neighbors witnessed the raid on a short-term rental home.

Almost 2 dozen people have now been charged in the prostitution investigation that first surfaced in September at a Plano short-term rental home. It turns out the case began with suspicious neighbors in a north Dallas neighborhood. Ken Kalthoff has the story.

The founder of San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com, who had been on the lam for the past three years while facing federal sex trafficking charges, was arrested this week in Spain, the FBI announced Friday.

Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a women’s center where she was serving her probation sentence.

Plano city council members will meet at 6 p.m. Monday and will take up regulations of short-term rental properties, available on popular sites like Airbnb and VRBO.

Plano city council members will meet at 6 p.m. Monday and will take up regulations of short-term rental properties, available on popular sites like Airbnb and VRBO.

Investigators say they busted a brothel at a short-term rental in a Plano neighborhood, and the revelation is fueling calls to restrict and regulate short-term rentals.

A brothel in a quiet Plano neighborhood was shut down by police from two cities. The prostitution operation began in Dallas but moved to a short-term rental house in Plano. Ken Kalthoff reports.

Dallas Police arrested two people and questioned several others after learning a sex trafficking ring was operating out of a short-term rental in Plano.

R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking.

R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse. The singer and songwriter, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were being…

Last year, there were more than 16,000 victims of human trafficking identified in the U.S., many of whom were kids.