A High-Profile Sex Trafficking Case in Louisiana Highlights Disparities in Sex Crime Cases When Victims are Young Black Girls

The North Star recently talked with Latoyia Porter, a social service worker and caregiver for a 16-year-old Black girl who had been trafficked for a decade.

Civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Latoyia Porter, Chief Leadership Officer of the Bogalusa Restoration Center in a press conference about a child trafficking case; Photo via The Advocate newspaper

According to data from thorn.org, a site designed to aid law enforcement in identifying child sex trafficking victims who are sold online, Black and Latino y…