New Orleans Man Arrested for Child Sex Trafficking After 16-Year-Old Alleged Victim Escapes
March 28, 2019
42-year-old Melvin Davis has been arrested on charges including human trafficking after his alleged 16-year-old victim escaped.
42-year-old Melvin Davis has been arrested on charges including human trafficking after his alleged 16-year-old victim escaped.
In February 2018, Homeland Security officials reported a 50 percent increase in the number of human trafficking cases in New Orleans over the previous year.
On Wednesday, Governor John Bel Edwards joined other governors across the country in announcing January 2019 as Human Trafficking Prevention Month. “We have to do more to end the heinous crime if sex trafficking,” Edwards said. In his speech, Edwards identified human trafficking as the country’s 2nd largest, and fastest growing, criminal industry. According to […]
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