This Coalition is dedicated to raising
awareness about human trafficking in the metro Detroit area and Michigan. We
will educate and train the community.
The
eyes of our understanding has to be opened! We all must learn to recognize the
crime of human trafficking. We all must become advocates and abolitionist
against this criminal activity.
Join us and help impact change for generations to come.
We cannot put our heads in the sand.
No one is free until all are free!
I'm taking a stand to end slavery: modern-day labor, sex
trafficking and child abuse...
Stephanie Brown, Richard's 17-year old granddaughter,
died of a fatal drug-overdose on March 16, 2007, after being hired at a local downriver
strip-club in Lincoln Park, Michigan, where two patrons (a volunteer basketball
coach and an ordained minister) including a dancer at the club, sex-trafficked
Stephanie to a local motel down the street and where she died that morning.
Together the State of Michigan and Stephanie's family
successfully prosecuted a drug-dealing, junior high school volunteer coach and
later settled out-of-court with the strip-club for employing an underage person
for sex-work. However, Richard continues to pursue other legal rights, causes
and criminal investigations in human and labor trafficking cases regarding
Stephanie's death at the local, state and federal levels including
international awareness and education.
Richard
A. Sands, Ret. PI
(MIRRC) Board of Directors
(AhEeCOSH) Investigative Reporter
(AhEeCOSH) Investigative Reporter
Southgate Tenth Precinct Delegate
Marygrove College - MA
Student
Social Justice Program -
10th Cohort
734-771-7251 Fax: 734-281-4087
rsands4996@marygrove.edu
734-771-7251 Fax: 734-281-4087
rsands4996@marygrove.edu
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