human trafficking

Segment 1: Johnson County activists say there are signs to look for when detecting illicit sex trafficking businesses.The business of sex trafficking…

Segment 1: Candidates for 6th District at-Large discuss plans for Kansas City.Candidates Andrea Bough and Stacey Johnson-Cosby each offered their approach…

A federal judge has frozen the assets of a Kansas City, Kansas-based sect that was hit with a $7.9 million judgment last year for human trafficking.U.S.…

Nearly six months after ordering a cult leader and his group to pay almost $8 million in damages to a woman they’d effectively enslaved for 10 years, a…

Jeffrey Wayne Henry, the co-owner of the Schlitterbahn Waterpark, arranged to have sex with a female human trafficking victim and paid her in part with…

A new awareness campaign in Kansas is aimed at cutting the demand for prostitution as a way to fight human trafficking. The campaign involves state...

Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley, seen by many as a promising Republican challenger to Sen. Claire McCaskill, found himself in a defensive posture…

A Topeka man accused of running a large human trafficking ring out of a strip club in Lawrence was sentenced to almost four years in federal prison…

One of the biggest cases of human trafficking in our area ends Monday with a sentencing in federal court.Dozens of women and girls from the most desperate…

This story was updated at 1:06 p.m. to include comments by Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley in a phone interview.Missouri Attorney General Josh…

The suburbs and shopping malls don't excite modern urban planners, but they were innovations in their own time. Today, we learn about urban designs that…

“For most of our trafficking victims this is kind of where we're going to start,” says Jamie Manzer, as she gives a tour of the SASA (Spouse Abuse Sexual…