Hollywood actor Ashton Kutcher joined the fight against sex-trafficking and his non-profit organization reports that it identified 5,791 victims in 2017.
Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children helps fight child sex abuse and human trafficking using software to bring sex traffickers to justice by providing law enforcement with information on suspected sex slavery networks and their victims.
“With the help of Thorn’s tools, law enforcement and investigators have been able to identify 5,791 child sex trafficking victims and rescue 103 children from situations where their sexual abuse was recorded and distributed. We’re building tools to stand up the toughest environments and empowering the frontlines to stop abuse before it happens,” the organization revealed in its 2017 impact report.