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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ESD K9 Estie Supports Major ICAC Operation in Mobile County
When the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force launched Operation Frost Byte in December 2025, Electronic Storage Detection (ESD) K9 Estie played a critical role in supporting investigators as they executed search warrants connected to multiple child exploitation cases. Estie is an Our Rescue-Sponsored ESD K9, specially trained…
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9-Year-Old Girl Rescued During Operation Hope in Chile
In Chile, a nine-year-old girl was identified in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) files during a police investigation, setting in motion a coordinated police response in Santiago’s Metropolitan Region to rescue her. On November 2025, the Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) launched Operation Hope with coordinated support from the Our Rescue…
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Survivor Care
Building a New Future: Ploy’s Story of Hope
**Alias used to protect survivor’s identity. At just 15 years old,**Ploy, a young girl from rural Northeast Thailand, left school to help support her grandmother after years of financial hardship. Raised by her grandmother after her parents separated, Ploy felt a deep responsibility from a young age to help provide for her household. An older acquaintance from her village…
Understanding Human Trafficking
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Human Trafficking
Online Exploitation
The Digital White Van: Protecting Kids in a Connected World
This January 11, for National Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Our Rescue hosted a free webinar titled “The Digital White Van,” with experts from DHS’s Blue Campaign, Know2Protect, Yahoo Security Engineers, SEARCH and Our Rescue, including a survivor of sex trafficking. January 11th reminds…
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How To Stop Human Trafficking
Human Trafficking
Prevention & Awareness
What Is Human Trafficking Prevention Month
Human trafficking prevention month takes place every January and focuses on raising awareness, educating the public, and calling communities to action in preventing human trafficking in all its forms. In 2010, the President of the United States formally dedicated January as a national awareness month, calling on individuals, communities, businesses,…
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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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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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Children at Risk: A Sharp Rise in 2025 Reports of Online Exploitation
The online world your children explore every day is not a playground, it’s a landscape of evolving threats. Just six months into 2025, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) released data showing a significant increase in reports related to online enticement, financial sextortion, AI-enabled exploitation, and child sex trafficking. Importantly, NCMEC has noted…
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Child Exploitation
Online Exploitation
Our Perspectives
6-7 is Silly, 764 is Deadly: The Rise of Decentralized Online Exploitation Terrorism
When we think about terrorism, we picture threats aimed at political ideologies or mass casualty attacks. But a new extremist threat is emerging, and it is aimed at our children with the intent to exploit. This threat is a group called 764, a decentralized terrorist child exploitation network that U.S. law enforcement has described as a highest-priority terrorism threat. Unlike other terrorist networks, 764 does not target…
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Child Exploitation
CSAM
Online Exploitation
Our Perspectives
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…
Mission Stories
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Field Operations
Mission Stories
U.S./Canada
ESD K9 Estie Supports Major ICAC Operation in Mobile County
When the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force launched Operation Frost Byte in December 2025, Electronic Storage Detection (ESD) K9 Estie played a critical role in supporting investigators as they executed search warrants connected to multiple child exploitation cases. Estie is an Our Rescue-Sponsored ESD K9, specially trained…
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Field Operations
Latin America
Mission Stories
9-Year-Old Girl Rescued During Operation Hope in Chile
In Chile, a nine-year-old girl was identified in child sexual abuse material (CSAM) files during a police investigation, setting in motion a coordinated police response in Santiago’s Metropolitan Region to rescue her. On November 2025, the Chilean Investigative Police (PDI) launched Operation Hope with coordinated support from the Our Rescue…
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Mission Stories
Survivor Care
Building a New Future: Ploy’s Story of Hope
**Alias used to protect survivor’s identity. At just 15 years old,**Ploy, a young girl from rural Northeast Thailand, left school to help support her grandmother after years of financial hardship. Raised by her grandmother after her parents separated, Ploy felt a deep responsibility from a young age to help provide for her household. An older acquaintance from her village…
Our Rescue announcements
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News Media
Foxwynd Foundation Awards $75,000 Grant to Our Rescue to support Riverside County ICAC Efforts to Combat Child Exploitation
Salt Lake City, UT – Our Rescue, a global nonprofit organization, has been awarded a $75,000 grant from the Foxwynd Foundation to advance its mission to end sex trafficking and child exploitation, by supporting the Riverside County Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force. This grant will support Our Rescue’s regional operational program…
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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…
OUR RESCUE MENTIONS IN THE NEWS
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FBI, local police raid Dumfries motel as part of sex trafficking, drug distribution investigation, 1/15/26.
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Oakland propone fondo para ayudar a víctimas de tráfico humano, 1/26.
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Four apprehended for alleged human trafficking, 1/26.
