Colorado’s Kids Are Not for Sale
CPAN Executive Director Makes the Case for Proposition 133
In a Gazette op-ed, CPAN Executive Director Lori Gimelshteyn urged Coloradans to vote yes on Proposition 133, which would make trafficking a child for sexual servitude a class 1 felony carrying life in prison without parole. Citing FBI data, she noted that Colorado ranks 10th in the nation for reported commercial sex trafficking victims age 19 or younger, with 256 young victims reported between August 2021 and August 2026. Thirteen of them were under the age of 10. She explained that after lawmakers indefinitely postponed HB26-1082, the Children Are Not For Sale Act, Protect Kids Colorado took the issue directly to voters. More than 3,300 volunteers gathered over 170,000 signatures to qualify the measure. Gimelshteyn also stressed that the measure keeps existing legal protections for victims who were forced or coerced, while holding perpetrators fully accountable.
