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Hunt County CASA Is Concerned With Human Trafficking

United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Lori Cope, the executive director of CASA for Hunt County, says children in foster care are particularly at risk of becoming victims of human trafficking. She says not all children who are involved in human trafficking are kidnapped, and a most of the human trafficking victims in the U.S. are U.S. citizens.

John Mark Dempsey is the host of the public interest program The Blacklands Café from KETR News. Dempsey is also the play-by-play announcer for Commerce Tigers Football on 88.9 FM and on ketr.org.