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Victory Tabernacle Church sponsored a charity golf tournament on Friday, June 27th for Innocence Atlanta! The tournament raised $3,000!!

Thanks to the following sponsors who helped make this event successful:

Victory Church (www.victorytabernacle.com)
adb services inc.
Ascend Technologies
Coldwell Banker/ Bullard Realty
Shane's Rib Shack
Interdev
Uni-Sky Corporation
Mona Vie
Fishing Oconee
Dodge- Town and Country
Brian Butler of CBeyond
Kaituer Coffee House
Highlands Golf Course
Chris Daniel Associates. PC
Adcoxgraphix

The U.S. State Department recently released its 2008 Trafficking in Persons report. This document describes the efforts that 170 governments around the world are taking to eliminate various forms of trafficking in persons (including sex trafficking, child labor, and slavery) in their country.

Author: Allison

According to an article from CNN, on Wednesday, July 2, the body of Brook Bennett, a 12-year old girl from Vermont, was found. Her uncle, Michael Jacques, will face kidnapping charges and is suspected of sexually assaulting the girl. One of Brook's relatives has accused Jacques and Ray Gagnon, Brooke's former stepfather, of sexual assault. When the relative was 9, she became part of a program for sex called "Breckenridge". Jacques was her trainer and she was graded on her performance.  read more »

Society has been quick to place full blame on the women working as prostitutes in our cities. Although it is a crime, it should be understood that these women are highly exploited. Often times they are beaten, raped, drugged and trafficked into the profession against their will.  read more »

The FBI recently released an online report on human trafficking. Accompaning this story was this startling image (picture pending) showing an older white male negotiating with a Thai woman over the terrified little girl clinched to her arm. The caption read "the man left with the girl and the trafficker left with her payment" (Photo courtesy of the U.S. State Department).  read more »

April 29, 2008 - Evening Out Athens

INnocence ATLANTA partnered with the best of Athens restaurants to create the April 29th Event "Evening Out Athens". Students and members of the Athens community alike chose to support the work of INnocence ATLANTA by dining at local restaurants such as Chic-Fil-A, Bretts, Uncle Ottos, Speakeasy and Transmetropolitan. Restaurants agreed for 10% of their proceeds to be donated to INnocence ATLANTA's awareness raising campaigns.  read more »

*Names have been changed

Her fragile hands were shaking as she nervously fumbled through her worn-down purse at the airport payphone. When words tripped out of her mouth, I realized the unraveled black threads hanging from her purse were actually a mirror into her state of being. She looked up at me, puzzled. Her strange demeanor was clearly a reaction to the sudden self-consciousness falling upon me as I approached her. Pushing it aside, I walked closer.  read more »

To have a clear and concise understanding of what child sexual exploitation is and how it is effecting Atlanta, GA, please view this short video from CNN.

According to a recent AJC article, "Former wrestler to serve life for sex trafficking", Harrison Norris kept a strict list of rules that his victims had to follow, rules he called "Hardbody's 10 commandments". Some of the rules were as follows:

COMMANDMENT 1: Safety is always first. Egos are like eggs. They are going to get broken. Leave your problems in the streets. No Disrespecting.  read more »