Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers have formally requested her sex-trafficking convictions be dismissed after claiming a juror failed to disclose he had been sexually abused as a child in a pre-trial questionnaire.

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Please tune in today from 3-4PM ET and hear my discussion with girls making a difference. They are engaging and educating their communities against the escalating crime of human trafficking. WG is made up of middle school and high school girls that are fighting back against online and real time abuse to end child trafficking. WG just launched a PSA to raise awareness about this crime during January – Human Trafficking Prevention Month.

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Sexting among teens and tweens is a relatively new phenomenon, and many state legislatures are still trying to determine what to do about it. Because of this, laws concerning sexting vary widely. It can be easy to assume your child would never sext someone else, but kids often feel pressure to exchange sexual messages, images, or videos, so taking the time to have an open conversation with them can give them the opportunity to express any concerns. If you need extra support, Bark can help by alerting you about sexual content so you can talk through issues if your kid experiences them.

What is Sexting?

While not all state laws officially define sexting, it’s generally regarded as the act of digitally sending or sharing sexually explicit images and/or texts. These can be nude or semi-nude images or just explicit texts. Typically, sexting occurs via text message, but any electronic transfer fits the definition — emailing, sending Instagram DMs, Snapchat selfies, and even TikTok messages. Young people don’t always know that what they’re doing can, in fact, be illegal and that the ramifications for these actions lead to criminal prosecution.

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Our good friends and partners at the Parents Television and Media Council give us a thorough and worrying report on Season Two of AT&T/HBO’s Euphoria. This program is directed at tweens and teens and showcases graphic violence, nudity, drug-use, foul language and a host of other offending situations normalizing and mainstreaming this behavior among our kids.

Take a stance. Say no. Join us. Sign the petition to end harmful programming.

Learn more from Tim Winter, President Parents Television and Media Council.

Human Trafficking Activity Guide: Student Clubs

How can I use this guide? Human Trafficking is combatted through education and the spread of factual information in all communities, and crucially, within student circles who can learn about and advocate for human trafficking
prevention. LifeWay Network has created this guide to serve as a way for you to take action in your institution!

Who can use this kit:

Clubs focused on issues such as human trafficking, gender equality, social justice, student governments; Fair Trade
and beyond can use this as a guide for taking action. What is the mission of LifeWay Network? LifeWay Network envisions a world in which human trafficking is abolished and every survivor is strong, connected and free. LifeWay Network joins the global movement against human trafficking by providing safe housing for women who have been trafficked and offering education about trafficking to the general public, including students. 

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A federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the sex abuse lawsuit against Prince Andrew brought by a longtime Jeffrey Epstein accuser could move forward.

In a Wednesday morning opinion, Judge Lewis Kaplan denied the royal’s motion to dismiss Virginia Giuffre’s suit against him.

Andrew’s attorneys had argued in their motion to dismiss the suit that Giuffre was barred from suing him because of a 2009 settlement agreement that she inked with Epstein to dismiss a Florida suit she brought against the pedophile.

The agreement releases “other potential defendants” from being sued by Giuffre, but Kaplan wrote in his decision Wednesday that the language of the agreement is too ambiguous for him to dismiss the suit against Andrew.

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