Familial Trafficking Highlighted at the 2025 Virtual International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference
The International Human Trafficking & Social Justice Conference brings researchers, service providers, advocates, politicians, and students together to learn, connect, and collaborate. The 22nd Annual Conference will be hosted virtually on September 17-19, 2025. Registration is now open! Please email info@traffickingconference.com if you are a trafficking survivor and require a code to attend free of charge.
Check out the following presentations highlighting Familial Trafficking:
Familial Trafficking & Out of Home Care presented by Khalia Riga
Familial trafficking looks different, has different outcomes, and needs different interventions than what is considered “traditional” human trafficking. In this session attendees will consider literature where the variations occur, and be given resources to try and address familial trafficking in their communities. A survivor’s case study will be given and several resources on familial trafficking vulnerabilities and outcomes will be discussed. Offender profiles and parental warning signs and contributing factors considered in a broad lens of trafficking and vulnerabilities will be given. General applicable information about working with youth and key signs of risk will be presented as well. Familial trafficking is more prevalent and more complicated than typically perceived. In this session, attendees will be equipped with resources to begin incorporating this reality into their work. Learning to distinguish the unique factors associated with familial trafficking can support holistic service provision and comprehensive awareness in our communities.
Dissociative Amnesia & My Journey to Healing presented by Chloe Collins, JD, MELP
Chloe’s parents tortured and trafficked her domestically and internationally from womb to college. Her mother was multiple-generation RAMCOA (Ritual Abuse, Mind Control, and Organized Abuse), and her father was involved with MK Ultra at Harvard. She spent years of her childhood living in a basement. She was raped over a thousand times. She survived rituals in which her favorite pets and friends were killed. She witnessed nine child homicides. She survived 238 consecutive suffocations and rapes at the Atlanta Olympics. Chloe had amnesia until age thirty-seven. Since remembering these events, Chloe has made over fifty reports to thirty agencies. In this presentation, attendees will learn about RAMCOA, government abuse, DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) and how perpetrators create and manipulate it intentionally. Attendees will gain a better understanding of how to spot and stop trafficking especially within social work, law enforcement, and legal professions.
Lunch Sessions: Networking Room Topic on Familial Trafficking
This is a virtual networking opportunity for people who are working with familial trafficking survivors or are interested in learning more about familial trafficking. Attendees will be able to connect face-to-face with others during this breakout time via a Zoom Meeting. This will be a semi-structured time where you will be able to collaborate with others on issues surrounding familial trafficking.
Family-Controlled Sex Trafficking of Young Boys: One Survivor’s Healing Journey by Michael Chapman, BS
Recent statistics reveal that male victims of sex trafficking are more prevalent than previously thought, with their numbers approaching those of female victims. The primary distinction lies in the higher percentage of male victims aged 0 to 11 compared to their female counterparts. This narrative recounts Mike Chapman’s experience of being sexually trafficked by his father in Oregon during the 1970s, his journey of repressed memory recovery and healing, and his subsequent support for other male survivors. Beginning at age 30, Mike began to recall repressed memories of the sexual abuse he suffered by his father. He initiated a healing process to address the trauma, but paused it while raising two children. At 54, he resumed his pursuit of healing and unearthed the additional trauma of having been sexually trafficked by his father. This discovery marked a new phase toward healing. Mike intends to share his personal account of uncovering the truths of his abusive past and how it led him to find healing, resilience, and hope for others, highlighting the decades-long issue of sexual exploitation of young boys by their white, middle-class family members in the U.S. He advocates for public and NGO services to include male survivors, especially those of family-controlled trafficking, in their plans and research, emphasizing the need to support both recent and long-ago survivors, including those who suppressed the events years or even decades later, in their healing journeys.
Understanding Ritual Abuse & Family Sex Trafficking: From One Survivor’s Perspective by Anjela Glueckert, BA
While Sex Trafficking awareness widens, less is known about the perspective of Familial Sex Trafficking Survivors and Ritual Abuse Survivors. Anjela Glueckert is a Trauma Survivor of BOTH. In this inspiring workshop, Anjela will discuss & share her own Trauma Healing Tools that she continues to use along her own ongoing Trauma Healing Journey. Due to the lack of resources for Survivors like herself, Anjela was motivated to create her own Toolbox for Healing from Family Sex Trafficking & Ritual Abuse, as the deeper she dove into her healing, the more difficult it was to find supports. She will talk about how the Survivor’s perspective is often missing in Anti-Trafficking work, & she will share what is needed and how to offer support to Survivors as they embark on their own Trauma Healing Journey. Anjela will share how she built her own Trauma-Healing Tools of Support that continue to be helpful and necessary along her own lifelong Trauma-Healing Journey. Additionally, Anjela will share how others can offer these Trauma Healing Tools for Survivors in their own community, whether as employers, caretakers, or friends. This includes how to support Survivors as struggles arise, and they continue to build their Healing Strengths. Anjela invites attendees to join her Anjelabundance.com commUNITY! AND when you start to embrace, more intentionally, this Survivor Perspective, you will be amazed and inspired by all the Survivors who reach out to HELP You to HELP Them Just. Heal.
A Father’s Fight to Expose & End Familial Human Trafficking that Started with the International Abduction of His Own Daughter presented by Iaian Bryson, MA
Iain Bryson unknowingly married into an intergenerational occult family that practices ritual abuse and trauma-based mind control. When his daughter was three years old, her mother started warning Iain that his daughter would be taken away from him. She told him that her family was a “cult,” but Iain had never heard of these types of families, so he had no framework for understanding the signs that were directly in front of him. Following the international abduction of his daughter, Iain tried to get help, but to no avail. The U.S. Secretary of State informed him that it could take two years to get the case into a court, but Iain was not willing or able to wait two years. When nobody in the entire world would help, he drove from Amsterdam to Poland and assaulted his daughter’s abductor and primary abuser in the street, thinking that this would lead to a child abuse investigation. But it did not, and fourteen years later, he is still fighting for his daughter. He published an evidence-based documentary style memoir in May 2024, and is working to educate the public and advocate for victims and survivors. In this session, Iain will discuss how familial human trafficking happens, along with how an occult family can get away with it. He will examine the signs of ritual/organized abuse that were in his family and why he missed them. He will also review how international laws work against child protection rather than for it and will present possible solutions.
Familial Trafficking: A Holistic Discussion presented by Anastasia Lynge, MSW
This session will explore the lesser-known aspects of familial trafficking, including descriptions of typologies, a discussion on risk and preventative factors, and strategies for working with victims and survivors. A facilitator with lived experience will guide the session, providing information and space for connection. The session will include discussion of dynamics relevant to both familial labor and sex trafficking, including the perspectives of both survivors of inter-familial abuse and family units who are exploited by external parties. Professionals of all backgrounds are encouraged to attend, as the material is relevant to service providers, legal professionals, educators, and researchers. The presenter will explore the ways in which the under-resourced population of familial trafficking survivors can be better supported by the sector, survivor leaders, and grassroots movements to end exploitation.