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OnlyFans: Women recount being held captive and forced to commit sex acts [Video]

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On an August morning in 2022, a young woman slipped out of a house in suburban Wisconsin and dashed to a waiting police car.

Her hands shaking, she told officers it was the “most brave thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

For nearly two years, her boyfriend had held her captive, prosecutors say. She feared he’d kill her if she tried to leave. But just days earlier, after he’d poured hot grease down her back, she started plotting her escape, secretly messaging family and friends to alert police.

The young woman later explained her desperation to detectives: Almost every night, her boyfriend had forced her to record sex acts on camera to sell online. Among his chosen outlets was OnlyFans, the hugely successful website …

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OnlyFans: Women recount being held captive and forced to commit sex acts [Video]

OnlyFans says it empowers content creators, particularly women, to monetize sexually explicit images and videos in a safe online environment. But a Reuters investigation found women who said they had been deceived, drugged, terrorized and sexually enslaved to make money from the site.

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More than 600 teenagers in NC hoping for adoption [Video]

More than 2,000 children in North Carolina live in foster care, waiting and hoping for adoption, with more than 600 of them being teenagers who face tougher odds of getting adopted.Adopt US Kids says a quarter of those children are teenagers who face tougher odds of getting adopted.Now in its 20th year, Adopt US Kids has helped place more than a million kids in adopted homes.This year's campaign focuses on teens under the tagline, "You can't imagine the reward." A young man adopted as a teenager shares what kids are looking for."Wanting love, wanting to wake up in the morning and know that they're going to lay their head down at the same place because the real big problem across the US is just not having a place to call home," Taylor Durard said.Durard says until he was adopted, he didn't have the capacity to dream about opportunities."All I could think about was the easiest way to survive, the easiest way to have a roof over my head," Durard said.Now age 20, Taylor attends college with hopes of becoming an international lawyer."I stopped having this idea of surviving and I started thriving," Durard said.More than 600 North Carolina teens are waiting for that same opportunity today."When young people age out of foster care, they face far greater challenges, and it's just more difficult for them to maneuver through life alone," Kamilah Bunn, CEO of the National Adoption Association, said.Adoption officials say common misconceptions include the belief that you have to be married or wealthy to adopt, neither of which is true."It's a challenge, it's something that we're hoping that your viewers today take on and take the first step by visiting adoptuskids.org," Bunn said.Adopt US Kids is a federally funded project that helps children in foster homes find permanent homes through adoption.The project also helps parents who are looking to adopt a child into their home.

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Likelihood of Trump abuse draws opponents to bill that would facilitate shutting down non-profits [Video]

Rachel Maddow reports on the return of a bill that would make it possible to punish a non-profit organization by labeling them as being in support of terrorism. While many lawmakers were ok with the idea initially, the return of Donald Trump to the White House is causing second thoughts about how the law could be abused by someone looking to eliminate opposition to their power.