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“Florida continues to lead the nation in the fight against human trafficking by being the first state in the country to mandate every student in K-12 to receive Child Trafficking Prevention and require every school in the state to declare itself a Child Trafficking Free Zone.” said Geoff Rogers, CEO and co-founder of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking.

Geoff Rogers, CEO and co-founder of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking, commended Florida for its leadership. “We hope more states will follow their lead as we seek to put an end to this terrible crime in the United States,” Rogers said.

Montreal Expos general manager Kevin Malone says, “I do believe the strike of 1994 was the end of baseball in Montreal. I wish we could have finished what we started. I guess it wasn’t meant to be.” Malone, now 62, lives in Las Vegas and is co-founder and president of the Tampa-based U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking.

Geoffrey Rogers, co-founder and CEO of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking, told The Epoch Times previously that the child trafficking problem in the United States is an “epidemic that’s continuing to spin out of control.” “I’m outraged at the fact there’s over 100,000 kids in America that are sold for sex every single day,” he said. “What we are also outraged about is—where is the outrage?”

We were joined by some pretty amazing people from the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking that’s making Las Vegas, NV. a MUCH safer place to live!

“The United States is the number one consumer of sex worldwide. So we are driving the demand as a society. These are American kids, American born, 50% to 60% of them coming out of the foster care industry” says Geoff Rogers, co-founder of the United States Institute Against Human Trafficking.

One boy was trafficked with his mother by her husband and held in captivity for most of his life. Another was lured through video games into a family that forced him to have sexual relations with them and their friends. Yet one more, a foster care runaway, was picked up in the street and offered a place to stay—in exchange for sex.

With a stroke of the mayor’s pen, Temple Terrace, FL. became the most recent government in the Tampa Bay area to declare itself a human TraffickingFree Zone. The TraffickingFree Zone program is an effort by the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking which is based in Tampa FL. and is one of five locations country wide.

“If we look at one particular study funded by the Department of Justice…that study identified an estimated 36% of kids that are trafficked are boys.”
Geoff Rogers