KRNV sat down with Cheri Ely, program director at the NCJFCJ, and Judge Egan Walker, past board member of the NCJFCJ, to discuss domestic child sex trafficking in our communities during National Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
“We train judges, but we also train anyone who’s working in the court system with those families. So that could be the attorneys, both prosecutors and defense attorneys, as well as folks that are working directly with the families. It could be child protective service workers, child welfare workers, juvenile probation officers and people in community programs that are serving those families that are court connected. We’re open to training anyone that’s working with the families in the court system,” said Cheri Ely, the program director of juvenile justice.
The NCJFCJ says judicial officers play a huge role in combatting child sex trafficking. KRNV spoke with one Reno judge, Egan Walker, who says he deals with child sex trafficking cases or victims weekly.