sex trafficking

A Missouri couple is accused of orchestrating a cross-country prostitution ring involving at least five girls.

A 30-year-old Jefferson City man has been sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for trying to set up a meeting with someone he thought was a 12-year-old girl for illicit sex.

Websites and people that knowingly advertise sex with minors would face penalties under Missouri's proposed sex trafficking law that needs a final vote in the Senate before heading to the governor.

Law enforcement agencies in Illinois and around the country participated in a sex trafficking sting operation over several days that led to more than 500 arrests.

A 27-year-old St. Louis County woman has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in a sex trafficking case in which her brother had already received a similar sentence.

Attorney General Lisa Madigan wants Congress to help states better fight sex trafficking.