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Exploit No More exists to empower Milwaukee’s children to rise out of sex trafficking.  Our goal is to lend voices to children who have been sold for sex, to mobilize our community to do something about it, and to provide long-term residential aftercare to children freed from the chains of commercial sexual exploitation.

The Greater Milwaukee area is no exception to the problem.  Recent headlines paint a grim picture for children in our city. From 2010 to 2012, three men from the Milwaukee metro area were sentenced to prison after beating nearly a dozen children into selling sex to complete strangers.   In a national one-night sting conducted by law enforcement in June 2012, authorities recovered six Milwaukee area children from the hands of traffickers—the most of any other city across the nation—including Las Vegas, Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. As recently as March 2013, two men from Menomonee Falls and Oak Creek were charged with child trafficking after they forced a young Janesville girl at gunpoint to sell sex for money.

These stories lend only a snapshot of the gravity of the human trafficking problem in and around Milwaukee.  Burdened by this reality, it is Exploit No More’s vision to band our community together to stand against this great injustice.  Our hope to stir hearts, to mobilize communities, and to partner with law enforcement and other agencies already engaged in this work, so we can put a stop to this evil.  As we work toward that end, we pray that you will join us in this much needed work.