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Education & Insights on the Issue of Sex Trafficking
Education is the first line of defense against sex trafficking and child exploitation. By providing expert insights, survivor stories, and research-backed resources, we help individuals and communities become difference makers, leading to lasting change.
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AI CSAM: The Growing Digital Threat to Children and How We’re Fighting Back
The Alarming Rise of AI-Generated Child Abuse Material Artificial intelligence has transformed countless industries, but criminals now exploit AI technology to create devastating new forms of child sexual abuse. In comparison to traditional CSAM, AI CSAM are sexually explicit images of children, created all or in part by Artificial Intelligence.
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Human Trafficking Statistics
How Many Human Trafficking Cases Started Online: The Digital Crisis Our Rescue Is Fighting Worldwide
While many traffickers may have historically relied on in-person recruitment at places like bus stations, malls, and vulnerable neighborhoods, the digital age has radically expanded their toolkit with alarming statistics revealing that more and more human trafficking cases started online. Recent data shows that…
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Online Exploitation
The Disturbing Psychology of Online Predators: What Every Parent Must Understand
When most parents picture online predators, they imagine shadowy figures lurking in chat rooms, deceiving children about their age and identity. This perception, while understandable, is dangerously inaccurate. The reality is far more sophisticated and psychologically complex than the “stranger danger” narrative suggests. Understanding the true psychology behind online predators…
Understanding Human Trafficking
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Human Trafficking Statistics
How Many Human Trafficking Cases Started Online: The Digital Crisis Our Rescue Is Fighting Worldwide
While many traffickers may have historically relied on in-person recruitment at places like bus stations, malls, and vulnerable neighborhoods, the digital age has radically expanded their toolkit with alarming statistics revealing that more and more human trafficking cases started online. Recent data shows that…
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Human Trafficking
Mission Stories
Sex Trafficking
Survivor Care
U.S./Canada
Lights, Camera, Captive: Suzie’s Journey to Freedom
Eight years ago, Suzie’s life changed forever. What began as a relationship with someone she thought cared for her, soon turned into manipulation and control. “I was young and naïve,” Suzie said. “This guy really liked me and wanted to know everything about me. Little did I know, he was…
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Human Trafficking
Prevention & Awareness
How Does Technology Help Human Traffickers? Exposing Digital Exploitation Methods and Combat Strategies
The Digital Evolution of Exploitation Human Sex Trafficking and online exploitation has evolved dramatically for consumers and criminals alike. And for those working in the fight against exploitation, understanding how technology can both enable predators as well as stopping predators is crucial for developing effective countermeasures. According to the…
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Internet Safety for Parents: Guiding Children Through the Digital Age
Internet safety has become every parent's critical responsibility as kids navigate social media and online games with increasing exposure to exploitation and predators. Learn practical strategies to protect children while encouraging safe digital engagement.
Understanding CSAM: Equipping Communities to Protect and Prevent
Child sexual abuse material (CSAM), commonly known as child pornography, is a crime plaguing lives on a global scale. To date, Google has reported 2.8 million instances of CSAM to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. Learn more about this growing issue here.
What Is Sextortion?
Sextortion is a growing problem for young people today. At Our Rescue, we want you to be empowered to keep predators out of your homes via the internet. This free guide helps individuals understand sextortion and how to address the topic with children and teens.
Our Rescue Perspectives
Candid discussions with Our Rescue experts about the challenges in combating sex trafficking and child exploitation. Together, we can bring about change through action and advocacy.
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Child Exploitation
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An Audacious Goal: The Future of Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Forces
If there’s one thing I’ve witnessed over the years during my work for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and now at my current role as CEO of Our Rescue, it’s the realization that the people who dedicate their lives to fighting child sexual exploitation are real life heroes. Among…
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Our Perspectives
A dog trained to protect children also saved my own life
By Chaz Balogh, Our Rescue ESD K9 Program Relationship Manager A highly trained, excitable and lovable detective named Spike saved my life. I don’t say that lightly. He brought me back to life, really, giving me a new purpose and rejuvenating my career in my lifelong mission to protect kids.
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Our Perspectives
The Cases We Carry
A National Police Week Message from Our Rescue CEO Derek Benner All of us who are serving or have served in law enforcement have peered into some of the darkest corners of humanity—investigating human trafficking, child exploitation, gang violence, cartel crimes, narcotics smuggling, illicit financial schemes, and fraud and scams. …
Mission Stories
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Child Exploitation
CSAM
Field Operations
Mission Stories
U.S./Canada
ESD K9 Bandit Aids Police in Major Cases Across Reno, Sparks, and Tahoe
This year, Our Rescue-sponsored Electronic Storage Detection (ESD) K9 Bandit continued to make an extraordinary impact alongside his handler and law enforcement in Nevada and the Tahoe region. Bandit’s work has supported multiple investigations involving sexual crimes against children and major criminal activity, helping officers locate digital evidence that might otherwise remain hidden. Bandit assisted investigators during…
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Latin America
Mission Stories
Operation CODIGO RESCATE 318: Responding to a Critical Call for Help
In Ecuador, a 16-year-old Venezuelan minor was allegedly being sex trafficked and exploited. The case began when local authorities received a troubling missing minor report and possible child exploitation through the 911 call center in Guayaquil. That urgent reality set a multi-agency response into motion on October 25. The Our Rescue team in Ecuador supported Operation CODIGO RESCATE 318 alongside the Ecuadorian National Police (ENP) Anti-Trafficking Unit (UNAT) and…
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Europe
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Training and Prevention
Elevating Survivor Voices at One Young World 2025
This year, Our Rescue had the opportunity to help bring a survivor-centered conversation on human trafficking to one of the world’s most influential gatherings of emerging leaders: the One Young World 2025 Summit. More than 2,000 young changemakers from over 190 countries came together in Munich, Germany to exchange ideas and solutions to…
Our Rescue announcements
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News Media
New Addition to the Interstate Justice Coalition
Our Rescue and its partners in the Interstate Justice Coalition (IJC), Skull Games Solutions and We Fight Monsters, are proud to announce the addition of Operation Light Shine (OLS) as the newest member of the coalition. This partnership expands the reach and impact of multi-state surge operations combating sex trafficking…
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Our Rescue and DailyWire+ Announce Release of New Documentary “Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Trafficking Epidemic”
Salt Lake City, UT — Our Rescue announces the upcoming streaming release of a new documentary, Hiding in Plain Sight: America’s Trafficking Epidemic, directed by award-winning filmmaker Nick Nanton. This powerful new film will be available to stream, for free, exclusively on DailyWire+ beginning Thursday, October 30, 2025. The documentary…
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Our Rescue Launches Operation Global Impact 2025: A Six-Week International Surge Against Human Trafficking
Coordinated operations with law enforcement span 10 countries to rescue survivors and dismantle trafficking networks Minneapolis, MN — September 5, 2025 — Our Rescue announces the launch of Operation Global Impact 2025, a six-week coordinated international surge against sex trafficking and child exploitation across Latin America, Europe, and Asia. Teams…
