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12 U. St. Thomas J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 1 (2017)

handle is hein.journals/tjlpp12 and id is 1 raw text is: CHILD SEX TOURISM AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO GLOBAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING LINDA MILLER' Civil Society is a nonprofit that has eight attorneys part-time, doing a broad spectrum of work. We provide civil legal services to victims to remedy the effects of sex trafficking, stalking, sexual assault on campus, child sex tourism, and domestic assault. One of our goals is to reduce the demand for sex with children around the world. I'm going to talk about is demand reduction for sex with children and how we do that through civil suits. Now that the appeal period is over, I can talk about a very important case. In Vang v. Prataya, we got nearly a million dollars in a unanimous jury verdict eight months ago in the federal court system.2 In the Vang v. Prataya case the child was 14 years old.3 She lived 12 hours from the capital city of Laos.4 She was told by a young woman who said she was a movie star, that she would make her a movie star. This woman told her she was going to take her to the capital city via a 12 hour bus ride.6 She then brought Vang to the capital city of Laos where she was raped.' Mr. Prataya, the man who raped her, is an American citizen.8 He had been living in Minnesota with his wife and nine children. At the time, he was in his 50s and she was 14.10 She did not know this man before the rape. Prataya had a previous criminal conviction for sexual assault in ' Linda Miller, Executive Director and founder of Civil Society. These remarks were given at the Fall Symposium, Sex Trafficking: Addressing a Global Issue in our Backyard at the St. Thomas Sch. of Law. (Oct. 27, 2017). 2 No. 12-CV-1847, WL 401942 (D. Minn. May 16, 2017) ' Id. at 1. 4 Sarah Horner, Raped and Pregnant at 14, she sued and won $1M in child-sex tourism case, Twin Cities Pioneer Press, May 12, 2017. 5id. 6 id. Vang v. Prataya, No. 12-CV-1847, WL 401942 (D. Minn. May 16, 2017) Id. Id. l0oId

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