- Posts by Katie Llamas
CounselKatie Llamas is a Counsel member of both our Personal Injury and Wrongful Death and our Sexual Assault practice groups and has been representing victims of personal injury since 2020. A former criminal prosecutor for the City of San ...
In September 2024, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 1414 into law, making it a serious felony to purchase sex from a minor under the age of 16. While this is a step forward, it’s not enough to protect survivors and hold perpetrators accountable. The reality is that the demand created by buyers fuels the entire sex trafficking industry—and until buyers are held accountable in a more meaningful way, we will continue to fight an uphill battle against trafficking.
North Carolina took a more decisive step by becoming just the second state in the nation to make sex buying a ...