The report shows a nearly 50 percent increase in the number of victims reported and an increase of children and youth suffering as victims.
In honor of National Human Trafficking Prevention Month this January, there is a new effort to tackle human trafficking in the Midlands.
South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson along with members of the Southeastern Coalition Against Human Trafficking will discuss the prevalence of the crime, and their efforts to stop it, at a news conference Friday morning in the State House.
