Thursday, April 5, 2012
Tomblin Signs Bill Against Labor And Sex Trafficking
{Charleston, West Virginia}...West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin signed a bill Thursday that would criminalize labor and sex trafficking. In March, the West Virginia legislature passed the state's first anti-human trafficking bill that criminalizes both labor and sex trafficking and authorizes the training of law enforcement to identify and effectively investigate cases of human trafficking. West Virginia was one of two states in the nation that didn't have criminal laws against human trafficking. Wyoming is the only state left that has no criminal laws against sex or labor trafficking.