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Saturday, March 26, 2022
Baker City event will raise money to combat human trafficking
with pre-teen or adoles-
cent girls the most common
victims. Common ways that
traffickers target youth is
through social media sites,
schools, malls, parks, bus
stops, shelters and group
homes.
Shared Hope works with
law enforcement and lawmak-
ers to create harsher punish-
ments for those involved in
trafficking.
“You have to start at the
root,” Macey said.
Shared Hope “grades”
each state on its laws about
trafficking. These report
cards were revised in 2020,
and Shared Hope raised the
standard for states to achieve
an even higher rating.
The report cards are avail-
able online at reportcards.
sharedhope.org.
By LISA BRITTON
Baker City Herald
BAKER CITY — A
community event this spring
in Baker City will help raise
awareness about the issue of
child sex trafficking and raise
money to combat the prob-
lem.
Baker County Soropti-
mists is sponsoring an inau-
gural Walk for Awareness, a
5K walk or run, on Saturday,
May 14, starting at the Baker
Sports Complex.
The Complex is north of
the Baker High School track.
Access is via Fifth Street.
Registration starts at
9 a.m. that day, and the event
begins at 10 a.m.
Participants can pre-regis-
ter at walk-for-awareness.tick-
etleap.com/registernow.
Entry is $30 with a shirt
(register by April 14 to guar-
antee shirt size), or $10 with-
out a shirt.
A family can register for
$25.
Shirts will be sold at the
event for $25.
All proceeds will be
donated to Shared Hope Inter-
national, which was founded
in 1998. This organization
aims to end sex trafficking by
raising awareness about the
problem, provide services to
survivors of sex trafficking
and help states improve laws
for this crime.
Shared Hope representa-
Shared Hope/Contributed Photo
Linda Smith, founder of Shared Hope, a group that fights human trafficking, speaks at a rally.
Baker County Soroptimists is sponsoring an inaugural walk Saturday, May 14, 2022, to raise
awareness about the issue of child sex trafficking and raise money to address the problem.
walk is posted on the Baker
City Soroptimist Club’s
Facebook page, www.face-
book.com/SoroptimistBak-
erCounty/.
Anyone who would like to
help sponsor the run/walk can
contact Sheryl, 541-519-5060.
tives will be at the Walk for
Awareness, as well as local
law enforcement. Local
cheerleaders will be selling
hamburgers.
“We want everyone to be
a part of it and help fight this
fight,” said Sheryl Blanken-
ship of Baker City, who is
spearheading the event with
her daughter-in-law, Macey
Blankenship.
Information about the run/
Shared Hope
Macey learned about
human trafficking in India,
where poverty and lack of
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education drive the problem.
“(Shared Hope) is the orga-
nization that opened my eyes
to this problem,” she said.
She’s shared her passion
with her mother-in-law,
Sheryl.
In the United States,
victims of sex trafficking are
often at-risk youth, those in
foster care and runaways.
According to sharedhope.
org, age is the biggest factor
A volunteer army
Jo Lembo, director of
National Outreach & Faith
Initiatives for Shared Hope,
said the organization has a
“volunteer army” — called
Ambassadors of Hope — of
1,400 people across the coun-
try.
“Our ambassadors come
back to us from the field,”
Lembo said.
For instance, an ambassa-
dor can request posters that
detail the warning signs of sex
trafficking, or literature about
Internet safety.
The key, Lembo said, is
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to educate the public about
human trafficking. This
knowledge is especially
important for juries who are
presented with a possible traf-
ficking case.
“Until we know, we can’t
know,” Lembo said. “It’s all
about education.”
The Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000 estab-
lished methods of prosecuting
traffickers, preventing human
trafficking, and protecting
victims and survivors of traf-
ficking.
Lembo said that as of
2020, every state had a law
that makes human trafficking
a federal offense.
Years ago, when Lembo
first met Shared Hope founder
Linda Smith, she heard some-
thing that she will never
forget:
“The more people who
know the signs of traffick-
ing, the smaller the world is
for those who buy and sell our
children.”
Events such as the Walk
for Awareness in Baker City,
she said, help educate every-
one about human trafficking.
“When I talk to people
and educate them, they talk
to people. And kids are safer,”
she said.
Anyone who suspects sex
trafficking can contact the
National Center for Missing
and Exploited Children at
1-800-THE-LOST or online
at www.cybertipline.com.
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Discovered in 1978, near Elgin, Oregon
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The Observer
LA GRANDE — A cash
reward of up to $2,500 is
being offered to help iden-
tify the body of a pregnant
woman found by hunters 10
miles northwest of Elgin in
August 1978.
The skeletal remains of
the woman and a fetus, knot-
ted coaxial cable, zippers, a
white bra or halter top, red
Catalina-brand pants in the
size 15-16 range, scraps of
white cloth with red hearts
and ankle-high boots were
discovered in and near a
shallow grave straddling
a wooded game trail near
Finley Creek. The woman
was estimated to be between
5-foot-1 and 5-foot-3 and
weighed between 115 and 125
pounds. She had light-col-
ored hair, possibly blonde or
sandy brown. The fetus was
estimated to be close to full
term.
Investigators believe the
woman had been killed in the
early to mid 1970s. Redgrave
Research Forensic Services
has provided a composite
sketch of what the woman
may have looked like.
More information about
the unidentified woman can
be found at www.facebook.
com/finleycreekjanedoe.
Volunteers with the Finley
Creek Jane Doe Task Force
have led the effort to iden-
tify the woman and her
unborn infant. Crime Stop-
pers of Oregon is offering the
cash reward of up to $2,500.
Tipsters may remain anony-
mous.
A nyone who would
like to submit a secure and
anonymous tip regarding
any unsolved felony crime
in Oregon, can visit www.
crimestoppersoforegon.com
or download the P3 Tips
app for their smartphone or
tablet. Crime Stoppers of
Oregon is funded entirely by
community donations.
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