BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey on Thursday announced the indictments of five people in connection with three separate human trafficking schemes in Massachusetts, bringing the number of people charged under the 2011 human trafficking law to 25.
"There's a commonly-held misperception out there that women willfully chose to engage in what is sometimes called the world's oldest profession, but that's simply not true," Healey said. "Little girls grow up wanting to be many things, they don't dream about careers locked up in hotel rooms and motel rooms selling their bodies as commodities, forced to endure the gravest indignities."
STATE HOUSE — A controversial bill tying an increase in the cap on charter school enrollment with significant new funding for all types of public education passed the Senate on Thursday, but not before senators added a controversial local control measure to a bill already unpopular with charter school advocates.
The Senate voted 22-13 in favor of the legislation crafted over the course by a group of four senators tasked by Senate President Stanley Rosenberg with producing education bill that could pass that branch in the face of a ballot initiative backed by Gov. Charlie Baker that would expand charter schools in Massachusetts.
