Caren Benjamin News Today

A bill in the U.S. House may force the federally funded human trafficking hotline to provide to law enforcement the information communicated during calls on request. The move would represent a departure from the hotlines long-standing approach of gaining victims consent to contact police, except in cases involving the suspected abuse of a minor or the possibility of imminent danger.

“We had our high school in our bio and everything," Daria Gușă told the BBC. "I think he was just trying to find girls who were as innocent as possible."

Lifetime's "Girl in Room 13" tells the true story of a young woman who is trafficked by her drug dealer and the mother who wouldn't give up on her, played by the late Anne Heche. Director Elisabeth Rohm and star Larissa Dias share the important message of the film in our behind-the-scenes coverage.

The U.S. Department of State estimates as many as 24.9 million adults and children are trapped in some form of human trafficking around the world.