An expert in reproductive law admitted she had broken it, pleading guilty Tuesday in California to defrauding couples seeking babies through surrogacy.

As of the beginning of next year, Illinois victims of sex trafficking will have the opportunity to legally expunge their records of convictions related to their being forced into prostitution.

Thirty-two women and girls were rescued from a so-called baby factory, where they were held and forced to sell their newborns, according to local authorities.

Well, that's one way to cut down on child brides.

The Olympics: a time for the world to come together in collegial common purpose. And, unfortunately, for sex-trafficking.

Some say the Super Bowl is a magnet for sex trafficking, but the Super Bowl Host Committee has yet to acknowledge the problem. The "I'm Not Buying It" campaign wants to change that.

Craigslist, which has caught flack in the US for providing users quick access to illegal sexual services, unceremoniously pulled its "Adult Services" section from international versions of the site. Guess back to "Casual Encounters" again for me.

The group that helped kick "erotic services" off Craigslist is now going after Village Voice Media's Backpage.com for hosting child sex-trafficking ad — and they want a crackdown before the Super Bowl, traditionally sex trafficking's biggest weekend.

[Tel Aviv, October 19: A woman stands in a store window at a shopping mall with price tags on her hand. The store, opened for a day, was used to raise awareness of the trafficking of women. Image via Getty.]

Dana Popp's amazing photographic series, "Not Natasha," of Eastern-European sex workers, is as wrenching as it is beautiful, an eloquent testimonial both to a horrible reality and human resilience. (Although not graphic, link contains images of cutting and underage girls.)