It's happening at hotels in Lenexa. Restoration House is a residential treatment program for sex trafficking victims. Results from a university study about online sex customers are still being used to draw awareness to an often unseen problem in the metro. The study also found almost 15 percent of men in Kansas City responded to sex ads online. This finding ranked the metro area in second place out of the 15 cities that participated in the study. To learn more about the study, click here.
You can choose ethnicity, hair color and age build. It's just really big business. Parks, truck stops and hotels are also primary places for trafficking to occur. AwareKC Director Russ Tuttle described a Kansas City park encounter when a police officer discovered a man having sex with a minor who met he met on the dating app Tinder. AwareKC is a Christian group that works to educate people about sex trafficking.
We need better men and good men to be better. Law enforcement on the panel said it's extremely difficult to get trafficking victims to come forward since many are trained by their pimps on what to say if they are caught.
Some don't even know they are victims. Accompanied by a controlling person or boss; not speaking on own behalf. Lack of control over personal schedule, money, ID, travel documents. Transported to or from work; lives and works in the same place.
Bruises, depression, fear, overly submissive. The headline has been edited for clarity. Brian Abel can be reached at brian. Follow him on Twitter:. Follow BrianAbelTV. Connect on Facebook:.
