DENVER - She survived years of abuse and exploitation at the hands of sex traffickers and now she’s telling her story.
Jessa Dillow-Crisp told an audience at the Colorado State Capitol, during Human Trafficking Awareness and Advocacy Day, that her victimization began when she was a child.
DENVER - It's a disturbing industry growing in our backyard. Thursday, the Colorado Springs based Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado took their message to the state capitol. Jessica Dillow, a survivor of human trafficking in Colorado Springs gathered with dozens of advocates to ask lawmakers to continue the fight against human trafficking by providing resources and closing loopholes that allow the industry to survive.
Dressed in slacks and a bright-blue top, Aubrey Lloyd shows not a hint of the hell she went through as a 16-year-old victim of sex trafficking.
The Board of El Paso County Commissioners unanimously approved a resolution In Support of Efforts to Stop Human Trafficking at Tuesday’s meeting. The resolution supports public and private efforts to rescue, renew and restore the rights of victims of these crimes and to find a long term solution to this problem.
Do you often feel like I do, that a wide unbridgeable gulf stands between you and the worst human suffering in the world? I have learned that there are over 20 million slaves in the world today — more than at any other time in history. But what could I possibly do to help.
Million-dollar campaigns, saturation advertising and massive canvassing have become commonplace in U.S. elections, especially in a swing state such as Colorado. A campaign underway there has all of the above – in a recall vote for two state senators that has become a showdown over gun policy and political dominance in a changing state.
COLORADO SPRINGS — Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York and the billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad have each donated hundreds of thousands of dollars. The National Rifle Association is buying political advertisements. New York’s junior senator sent a fund-raising e-mail. And the election has attracted news coverage from as far away as Sweden.
Twelve people lost their lives last year when James Holmes, profusely armed and dressed like the Joker, sprayed Aurora moviegoers with bullets while The Dark Knight Rises played out on the screen. A reporter on this site wrote that the gun control laws passed in this year’s legislative session “came in reaction to the random massacres” in Aurora and Connecticut.
This photo was taken at the “Sheriffs Rally for the Recall” organized by Tamra Farah and held in Colorado Springs at the Pioneers Museum. Speakers included Sheriff Terry Meketa of El Paso County and several other Sheriffs from around the state.
If early voting is any indication, two Colorado state senators are in for a rough day tomorrow. Voters in Colorado have been busy over the past few months with a recall election after the state passed sweeping new gun control laws which included a ban on magazines holding more than 15 rounds of ammunition. Voters have their sights set on two officials in particular, Colorado Senate President John Morse and Sen. Angela Giron, who will learn whether they'll keep their current positions in public office after recall election polls close Tuesday.
Tamra Farah of the Human Trafficking Task Force of Southern Colorado sits down with host Jon Caldara to discuss the evils of human trafficking as it occurs in Colorado today.