Wyden rides with Portland Police to see teenage sex trafficking problem first-hand, works to deliver funds to open YWCA women's shelter
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Aug 2
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Posted in Public safety, video. |
Last Friday in a ridealong with Portland Police, Senator Ron Wyden bore witness to Oregon's growing problem of teenage sex trafficking. Young girls, some no older than 15, endure an unfathomable cycle of abuse. Senator Wyden is working to change that.
"If there is even one youngster ... out there like that 15-year-old girl that I saw last night with the false promise of a better life," Senator Wyden said, "we've got to reach that young person to make sure that false promise is exposed so that young woman and others like her have alternatives."
To fight this ongoing epidemic, Senator Wyden is working to secure $900,000 in federal funding for a YWCA women's shelter here in Portland. Underage girls who have been victims of sex trafficking will make use of the shelter to receive help and turn their lives around. The money is part of a broader effort by Senator Wyden to combat underage sex trafficking in Oregon.
To learn more, and for more specific details on Senator Wyden's efforts, please click here. To watch the video from Senator Wyden's ride along with the Portland police, please click below.
Posted on August 2, 2010 in Public safety, video.
