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(82,333 posts) Fri May 26, 2017, 06:43 PM May 2017

How a nuns' home is helping girls freed from sex trafficking

By Kevin Jones

Baton Rouge, La., May 26, 2017 / 03:33 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The numbers are staggering. Each year in the U.S. alone, some 300,000 minors are victims of sex trafficking.

In Louisiana, state estimates indicate that about 40 percent of juvenile victims are being trafficked by their primary care giver: a mother, father, foster parent, uncle, a mother’s boyfriend.

Father Jeff Bayhi has heard unspeakable stories of sex trafficking victims over the years.

That’s why the pastor of St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Zachary, La. has worked to open Metanoia Home, a Baton Rouge-area shelter for sixteen women under age 21.

http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/how-a-nuns-home-is-helping-women-freed-from-sex-trafficking-57471/

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1. Jeff Bayhi, founder of Metanoia Home

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Sun May 28, 2017, 05:46 PM

May 2017

If the name sounds vaguely familiar, he was the priest who knew that a girl had been sexually abused because she told him about it in confession. He was sued because Louisana had a law mandating the reporting of sexual abuse by clergy, but the court overturned the law in order to protect religious privilege that only a few religions could even benefit from.

http://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/article_29d4ace2-afe6-5c60-9b3f-6de4c46533b8.html

Jeff Bayhi thought his religion was more important than justice for a sexually abused girl. Remember that in the context of this shelter.

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