StolenYouth Luncheon Raises $820K

Some 800 people packed the Sheraton Seattle Hotel’s grand ballroom for the annual StolenYouth lunch on April 29, an hour-long event which both informed and stunned the crowd.

StolenYouth is a relatively new nonprofit which has mobilized an army of women and men to fight child sex trafficking. Two lines of a poem, written by a child who was bought and sold, and read simply at the very beginning of the luncheon were haunting: “Lauren doesn’t live here anymore…Like my youth, she slipped away in the night…”