A sex trafficking crackdown.

The state police and attorney general's office today announced they've arrested seven people and dismantled two separate human trafficking rings they were connected to in North and South Jersey.

According to the indictments, One Ring was based in Essex County, where a suspected female trafficker allegedly used physical violence to control teenage victims, then profited from their sexual abuse.

While an investigation into a Cumberland County based ring found new groups of women were being brought to a house of prostitution in Bridgeton every week.

The indictments come just before the second anniversary of the Division of Criminal Justice's Human Trafficking Unit, which was formed in response to the rise in trafficking crimes in the state.

According to national data, 170 human trafficking cases were identified in new Jersey by investigators in 2023.

Just from calls to the National Human Trafficking Hotline alone.

We do this work for the victims, for the survivors, for those who deserve justice and dignity, and who deserve to be treated like human beings.

We fight for everyone who is not only survived the horrors of human trafficking, but also those who are working to rebuild their lives one step and one day at a time.