January 31, 2018

Mary Leary, professor, law, was featured in an Arlington Catholic Herald story on fighting human trafficking. 

... “We have a 1996 law being used to address a 21st century problem,” said Mary Graw Leary, a professor at The Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law in Washington. “It was passed before we knew what the internet would be, and what sex trafficking would be, and before we knew what a harmful combination they would be together.”

Leary has spent much of her law career fighting against the abuse and exploitation of society’s most vulnerable. She and many victims groups are advocating for a bill that would amend the Communications Decency Act. But she fears lobbying from technology companies may result in an even worse law being passed. ...

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