Human Trafficking in [USA Street Children in [USA] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [USA] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years
of the 21st Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/USA.htm
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
estimates that 50,000 people are trafficked into or transited through the
U.S.A. annually as sex slaves, domestics, garment, and agricultural slaves. The United States is a destination country
for thousands of men, women, and children trafficked largely from Mexico and
East Asia, as well as countries in South Asia, Central America, Africa, and
Europe, for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. Three-quarters of
all foreign adult victims identified during the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 were
victims of trafficking for forced labor. Some trafficking victims, responding
to fraudulent offers of employment in the United States, migrate
willingly—legally and illegally—and are subsequently subjected to conditions
of involuntary servitude or debt bondage at work sites or in commercial sex.
An unknown number of American citizens and legal residents are trafficked
within the country, primarily for sexual servitude. The U.S. Government (USG) in 2008 continued
to advance the goal of eradicating human trafficking in the United States.
This coordinated effort includes several federal agencies and approximately
$23 million in FY 2008 for domestic programs to boost anti-trafficking law
enforcement efforts, identify and protect victims of trafficking, and raise
awareness of trafficking as a means of preventing new incidents. – Adapted
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Anti-Human Trafficking Resources - 888-3737-888 Homeland Security www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1265647798662.shtm [accessed 8 January 2011] VICTIMS - If you are a
victim, or believe you might be a victim, of human trafficking, seek help.
The toll-free National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available
to answer calls in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours
a day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. Call for help. Call
with questions - Any time - Any language - 888-3737-888 Call 911 if you are
experiencing an emergency Gov't Effort to Stem Human Trafficking
Helps Very Few Editor Pueng Vongs, a journalism fellow in Child and Family Policy of
the University of Maryland-Foundation for Child Development, Commentary,
Pacific News Service PNS, Dec 16, 2004 news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=df2c06061d2a7eacf62138f61492e80f [accessed 26 August 2011] But what the ads
don't mention is, in order to take advantage of these benefits, victims must
first agree to cooperate in the criminal Investigations of their abusers.
This is not a viable option for most. Those who cooperate may face
retaliation from their exploiters or risk harm to their loved ones in their
homelands. For example, a Thai domestic worker who has agreed to testify
against her abuser may want to bring her two children from Feds charge three Kansas City-area
companies with labor trafficking www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/05/25/daily15.html [accessed 8 January 2011] “This RICO
indictment alleges an extensive and profitable criminal enterprise in which
hundreds of illegal aliens were employed at hotels and other businesses
across the country,” Whitworth said in the release. “The defendants allegedly
used false information to acquire fraudulent work visas for these foreign
nationals. Many of their employees were allegedly victims of human
trafficking who were coerced to work in violation of the terms of their visa
without proper pay and under the threat of deportation. The defendants also
required them to reside together in crowded, substandard and overpriced
apartments.” Many of the workers were
employed at hotels in the Child maids now being exported to US Associated Press AP, Dec-28-2008 www.zimbio.com/AP+News/articles/7537/Child+maids+now+being+exported [accessed 8 January 2011] Shyima was 10 when a
wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Once behind the
walls of gated communities like this one, these children never go to school.
Unbeknownst to their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court
records, police transcripts and interviews. Shyima cried when she
found out she was going to She arrived at Young workers in the oldest profession -
Clark County girls make up a third of the underage sex workers in Portland Isolde Raftery,
The Columbian, December 6, 2008 -- Source: www.columbian.com/article/20081207/NEWS02/712079963 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3628 [accessed 8 January 2011] Sarah was 16 and addicted
to crack cocaine when she heard there was easy money to make in the parking
lot of a fast food restaurant off ‘SNITCHES DIE, YOU
KNOW’
- “I can cite case after case of girls coming from average families, and once
the pimp was able to intervene, the family didn’t matter anymore,” Dick said.
“I know of officers’ daughters who got into it, a federal prosecutor’s
daughter, a DA’s daughter, a politician’s daughter.” Cherise was a
rebellious 15-year-old when she met her first pimp, Deandre
Green, at Human trafficking cases increase in El Paso Louie Gilot, Libertas, November 12, 2006 libertasuiuc.blogspot.com/2006/11/human-trafficking-cases-increase-in-el_12.html [accessed 8 January 2011] Gardes showed the
photograph of a field worker standing on top of a large farm truck -- a scene
common across the Southwest. His name is Ricardo, she said. He was smuggled
across the border in Sexual Slavery in C.S.I. , February 9, 2004 -- Source:
www.scientology.org/news-media/news/2004/040209.html groups.yahoo.com/group/Shetubondhon/message/7981?l=1 [accessed 8 January 2011] She was a teenage
girl from an impoverished village in Runaway raped, held as sex slave Judi Villa and Lindsey Collom,
The www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1109girlrescue09.html [accessed 8 January 2011] Since
September, the 15-year-old girl had been raped repeatedly, threatened with
death and sold for sex over the Internet, police said. Her captors hid
the runaway in a hollowed-out box spring covered with a piece of wood and
tucked underneath a bed in a small apartment complex adjacent to Interstate
17 in west The (ongoing) LibertadLatina, July 31, 2009 www.libertadlatina.org/LatAm_US_San_Diego_Crisis_Index.htm [accessed 8 January 2011] The articles here
below describe one of the largest known child and youth sex trafficking cases
in the ARCHIVES [Part 1 of 3] Anti-Human Trafficking Resources - 888-3737-888 Homeland Security www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1265647798662.shtm [accessed 8 January 2011] VICTIMS - If you are a victim,
or believe you might be a victim, of human trafficking, seek help. The
toll-free National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available to
answer calls in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a
day, 7 days a week, every day of the year. Call for help. Call
with questions - Any time - Any language - 888-3737-888 Call 911 if you are
experiencing an emergency A Blight on the Nation: Slavery in Today's Ron Soodalter,
The Carnegie Council, April 27, 2009 www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/000122 [accessed 8 January 2011] Overwhelmingly,
they come on the promise of a better life, with the opportunity to work and
prosper in These people do not
represent a class of poorly paid employees, working at jobs they might not
like. They exist specifically to work, they are unable to leave, and are
forced to live under the constant threat and reality of violence. By
definition, they are slaves. Today, we call it human trafficking, but make no
mistake: It is the slave trade. For 2 refugees, a nightmare in captivity Patricia Montemurri,
Free Press, Nov. 7, 2010 pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/2182299451.html?FMT=ABS&date=Nov+07%2C+2010 [partially accessed 26 August 2011 - access
restricted] Leave your family
in Kiev, Ukraine, and come to learn English and work as a waitress at a
seaside summer resort, they told the 19-year-old Katya, which is not her real
name. Instead, when Katya and a
friend accepted the offer and flew to the For nine months,
Katya and her friend, who spoke no English, lived in a Human Trafficking Class Action Case Filed
in Mississippi www.prweb.com/releases/2011/10/prweb8920562.htm [accessed 30 October 2011] Court documents
show these immigrant workers signed the loan agreements because they had been
given employment offers for work in the Tampa man is fifth suspect arrested in
human trafficking case Kameel Stanley & Jamal
Thalji, [access information unavailable] Police have
arrested a fifth man in connection with what authorities believe is the first
human trafficking ring in the area that involved local women as victims. The warrant details
how the ring lured one woman in with promises of financial help, then took
her captive, repeatedly raped and beat her, then prostituted her and other
women at a Pinellas County strip club. Helping those hurt by human trafficking CJaye, May 23, 2009 –
Source: legal-ledger.com/item.cfm?recID=11817 www.nowpublic.com/world/helping-those-hurt-human-trafficking [accessed 8 January 2011] Bukola Oriola came to But her life here
quickly became more of a nightmare, Bukola, 32,
explained in fluent English at a state Capitol news conference on
Thursday. During the next two years Bukola became a victim of human trafficking – at the
hands of the man she married. “I was alone in the
house. I cried to go out. I was always looking forward to Sunday to go to
church,” Bukola said. When she was pregnant, the man had her confined
to the house. After she gave birth, she was turned into the man’s sex slave.
When the man realized she could braid hair, he’d have her work in Pinellas deputies: 3 arrested in human
trafficking case Ray Reyes, The [accessed 8 January 2011] A waterfront home
became a prison for several women who were told they would be taken care of
but were instead forced into a life of prostitution, authorities say. The women also had to dance at clubs in
the Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes Barry Estabrook,
Gourmet Magazine, March 2009 www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/03/politics-of-the-plate-the-price-of-tomatoes?currentPage=1 [accessed 8 January 2011] The beige stucco
house at Lucas’s “room”
turned out to be the back of a box truck in the junk-strewn yard, shared with
two or three other workers. It lacked running water and a toilet, …
Everything had a price. Lucas was soon $300 in debt. After a month of
ten-hour workdays, he figured he should have paid that debt off. But when
Lucas—slightly built and standing less than five and a half feet
tall—inquired about the balance, Navarrete
threatened to beat him should he ever try to leave. Instead of providing an
accounting, Navarrete took Lucas’s paychecks,
cashed them, and randomly doled out pocket money, $20 some weeks, other weeks
$50. Taking a day off
was not an option. If Lucas became ill or was too exhausted to work, he was
kicked in the head, beaten, and locked in the back of the truck. Other
members of Navarrete’s dozen-man crew were slashed
with knives, tied to posts, and shackled in chains. Trafficking victims try to remake lives Monica Rhor, Associated
Press AP, April 13, 2009 www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/04/13/0413trafficking.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Like dozens of other
workers from How Jonathan Abel, www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article984066.ece [accessed 9 January 2011] She came from “Rape Trees” Frame Arizona-Mexico Border:
Grim Reminders of Human Trafficking ChattahBox, March 15, 2009 [accessed 9 January 2011] A recent report
from the Cronkite News Service, a student-run news service of These “rape trees”
are becoming more common along the Arizona border counties of Pima and
Cochise, as coyotes and drug cartel members find human trafficking more
lucrative than drug smuggling. Horror of teen sex slavery not foreign woe;
it's here Alan Johnson, The [accessed 9 January 2011 – access may now be restricted] Minutes after
getting a call, "I can't
describe to you the feeling of terror. No child should ever have to know that
kind of fear. I didn't know what I was going to have to endure that night,
for how long, or if I was going to come back home." What started
innocently with Dancer in human trafficking case fears
family will be dishonored www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2009/01/16/human_trafficking_lilburn.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Shirke is one of six entertainers
that were allegedly recruited from India with promises of profits - tips -
from their dancing at the bar and restaurant, only to be paid slave wages and
have every movement carefully guarded once they arrived in Georgia on Nov.
20. Shirke
is worried the arrest of her bosses will shame her parents and brother in The doors to the
five-bedroom house where the entertainers lived in Lilburn were always
dead-bolted from the inside by guards who stayed in the sparsely furnished
house with them, Shirke said. She said the girls,
who did not have the key to the door, were not permitted to go anywhere
without an escort. The eight
performers had signed a contract before they left Feds charge three Kansas City-area
companies with labor trafficking www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/05/25/daily15.html [accessed 8 January 2011] “This RICO
indictment alleges an extensive and profitable criminal enterprise in which
hundreds of illegal aliens were employed at hotels and other businesses
across the country,” Whitworth said in the release. “The defendants allegedly
used false information to acquire fraudulent work visas for these foreign
nationals. Many of their employees were allegedly victims of human
trafficking who were coerced to work in violation of the terms of their visa
without proper pay and under the threat of deportation. The defendants also
required them to reside together in crowded, substandard and overpriced apartments.”
Many of the workers were employed at hotels in the Child maids now being exported to US Associated Press AP, Dec-28-2008 www.zimbio.com/AP+News/articles/7537/Child+maids+now+being+exported [accessed 8 January 2011] Shyima was 10 when a
wealthy Egyptian couple brought her from a poor village in northern Once behind the
walls of gated communities like this one, these children never go to school.
Unbeknownst to their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court
records, police transcripts and interviews. Shyima cried when she
found out she was going to She arrived at Young workers in the oldest profession -
Clark County girls make up a third of the underage sex workers in Portland Isolde Raftery,
The Columbian, December 6, 2008 -- Source: www.columbian.com/article/20081207/NEWS02/712079963 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3628 [accessed 8 January 2011] Sarah was 16 and
addicted to crack cocaine when she heard there was easy money to make in the
parking lot of a fast food restaurant off ‘SNITCHES DIE, YOU
KNOW’
- “I can cite case after case of girls coming from average families, and once
the pimp was able to intervene, the family didn’t matter anymore,” Dick said.
“I know of officers’ daughters who got into it, a federal prosecutor’s
daughter, a DA’s daughter, a politician’s daughter.” Cherise was a
rebellious 15-year-old when she met her first pimp, Deandre
Green, at Forced labor operation busted Freeman Klopott,
The Examiner, 11/24/08 washingtonexaminer.com/local/2008/11/forced-labor-operation-busted [accessed 9 January 2011] MAN ALLEGEDLY
CONFISCATED THE WOMEN’S PASSPORTS AND THREATENED TO KILL THEIR FAMILIES IF
THEY LEFT For the past seven
years, federal authorities say, a Peruvian Nanny Exploited In Shocking ICE
Case KTVU News, www.ktvu.com/news/18012707/detail.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Agent Welsh and ICE
officials won't speak specifically about Dann's
case, but the complaint alleges that in July 2006, Dann
brought Zoraida Pena-Canal from Dann allegedly
confiscated Pena's passport and visa and physically and verbally abused the
nanny, threatening her with deportation if she talked to outsiders. The complaint
alleges Dann smashed Pena's radio and a television
set, to prevent her from listening to Spanish language programs that would,
quote "put ideas in her head."
Investigators say Dann told Pena: "When
you come to the www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/October/08-crt-920.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Evidence presented
at trial demonstrated that The evidence
established that Paris "purchased" two of the victims from a
co-defendant, Brian Forbes, who previously pleaded guilty to five counts of
sex trafficking and was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in
recruiting and exploiting minors and vulnerable young women into
prostitution, as well as using beatings, rapes, drug withdrawal, threats and
unlawful restraint, to compel them to perform commercial sex acts. - htcp LAGON: Modern-day slavery Ambassador Mark P. Lagon,
Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking
in Persons, The Washington Times, October 6, 2008 www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/06/modern-day-slavery/?page=1 [accessed 9 January 2011] A millionaire
perfume maker in Imprisoned in the American Nightmare Ronnie Garrett, OFFICER.com, September 2008 www.officer.com/print/Law-Enforcement-Technology/Imprisoned-in-the-American-Nightmare/1$43295 [accessed 9 January 2011] Like many before
her, she immigrated to the But her dreams
vanished as she found herself living a nightmare — trapped in a house all
day, barred from speaking to anyone, and expected to work grueling hours
until she collapsed into bed at night.
"When I'd complain, they'd threaten me … and I feel so sad …
because when I was in my own country I used to work, I made friends,"
she says. "Now I come here, I'm locked in the house, not talking to
anyone, not going anywhere …" Human trafficking victim speaks out in
Aiken NBC News, Augusta,-September-15-2008 www.nbcaugusta.com/news/southcarolina/28434359.html [access date unavailable] Micheline Slattery talked
about how at just five she was forced into slavery in her native "It is really
tough when you have been programmed to believe you are worthless," she
said. "I was like, there had to be something different, something better
than what I was living. I decided I wasn't going to stay there anymore and
ran away." Now Slattery is a
nurse and when she can, she tells her story.
"I want the world to know that slavery is not history, it still
exists," she said. Brothers Plead Guilty to Enslaving
Farmworkers in www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/September/08-crt-770.html [accessed 9 January 2011] All five defendants
pleaded guilty to harboring undocumented foreign nationals for private financial
gain and identify theft. In addition, Cesar and Geovanni
Navarrete pleaded guilty to beating, threatening,
restraining and locking workers in trucks to force them to work for them as
agricultural laborers. Cesar Navarrete also pleaded
guilty to re-entering the The defendants were
accused of paying the workers minimal wages, driving them into debt, while
simultaneously threatening physical harm if the workers left their employment
before their debts had been repaid to the family. Human trafficking in Amy Leigh Womack, macon.com, Jul. 29, 2008 www.macon.com/2008/07/29/416886/human-trafficking-in-macon-depends.html [accessed 9 January 2011] For one woman,
human trafficking began with an advertisement promising the opportunity to
work in Probe: Diplomats abuse their workers,
invoke immunity [DOC] Anthony M. Destefano,
Newsday, Jul 28, 2008 -- Source:
www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nytraf285780386jul28,0,6438774.story [accessed 9 January 2011] Federal
investigators have uncovered numerous cases of foreign diplomats - mostly in Sex Slaves: From Kevin Rowson, 11
Alive, www.infowars.com/sex-slaves-from-mexico-to-us/ [accessed 3 May 2012] The female victims
were as young as 14-years old. They expected a better life in An indictment says three
of the men -- 31-year old Juan Cortez-Meza, 34-year old Amador Cortez-Meza
and 25-year old Francisco Cortez-Meza -- travelled to The indictment says
"The victims were beaten, threatened, or their families back in Indian workers' struggle shines light on
human trafficking, slave labor Sunil Freeman, Party for Socialism and Liberation
PSL, July 4, 2008 [accessed 9 January 2011] The plight of
immigrant Indian workers who were deceived into virtual slavery has brought
attention to the vile practice of human trafficking. Indian workers protest slave-like
conditions before the Department of Justice, Modern slavery global scourge, speakers
tell CBF supporters Rachel Mehlhaff
and Lee Ann Marcel, Associated Baptist Press ABP, www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3368&Itemid=53 [accessed 9 January 2011] The woman came over
from Researchers Issue Report on Human
Trafficking Newswise, Northeastern
University, 6/16/2008 www.newswise.com/articles/researchers-issue-report-on-human-trafficking [accessed 9 January 2011] A team of
researchers at The report,
entitled “Understanding and Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Human
Trafficking,” was made possible by a grant from the National Institute of
Justice and is now available online … Full
Report [PDF] … Executive
Summary [PDF] Fulton judge, deputy son charged with human
trafficking Appen Newspapers, [accessed 9 January 2011] A former The charges against
the three allege the Garretts later stopped paying
the victim for her work as a nanny, significantly curtailed her freedom and
ability to leave their home, and threatened to malign her to her family in In addition, the
indictment alleges that after the victim escaped, the Garretts
falsely accused her of theft to local authorities, reported her illegal
status to federal authorities and falsely accused her of engaging in
terrorism-related activities to the Department of Homeland Security. One woman who operates a shelter in
northwest MO speaks out Amelia Waters, Connect Tristates
News, 05.20.2008 www.connecttristates.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=136730 [accessed 9 January 2011] "We have dealt
with many cases where as the girls are brought in as mail-order brides, when
they got here basically they were used for prostitution and pornographic
purposes," said Cheryl Leffler, who operates a
women's shelter in northwest "They usually
start with just written correspondence with them, and after they have
pretended to be the perfect person they get the girls to trust them,"
said Leffler.
Traffickers promise the world to potential victims and pay for their
plane ticket to Grand Jury Indicts Human Trafficking
Suspect WKYT 27 News, May 15, 2008 www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/18968409.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Police say Man Sentenced for Human Trafficking and
Alien Smuggling www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/May/08-crt-406.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Corea lured young
Central American women to the Former Human Trafficking Victim Speaks Out KGMB CBS 9 News - May 3rd 2008 www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=5769&lang=ge [accessed 9 January 2011] Maka told Francis he
would turn him into immigration if he tried to escape the pig farm he stayed
at. "He make me afraid of him. He
hit me a couple of times. yeah. metal frames, I get scars on my back from
him. Get guys they worse than me. He beat 'em up
till blood coming out their mouth and nose. it's very sad. We cannot do
nothing. we so scared of him," Francis said. Sentences given in human trafficking plot United Press International UPI, Houston,
April 28, 2008 www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/04/28/Sentences-given-in-human-trafficking-plot/UPI-66051209440209/ [accessed 9 January 2011] Members of a human
trafficking ring have been sentenced for a conspiracy to smuggle Central American
women into the How an eastern Jennifer Hemmingsen,
The Gazette, April 20, 2008 [accessed 9 January 2011] In the basement of
an ordinary-looking 3 Arrested On Suspicion Of Human
Trafficking The www.traffickingproject.org/2008/04/india-emigration-act-upgrade.html [accessed 3 May 2012] According to the
complaints, the victims were forced to work nearly 24 hours a day and were
advised that it would be necessary for them to work for several years while
they repaid their "travel debt."
The victims allegedly were threatened, and their passports were kept
from them. Sex victim gives voice to problem T.J. Greaney, [accessed 3 May 2012] At 15, Theresa
Flores was a self-described "blond, white girl" from an upper-class
Human trafficking steps from the shadows Barry Bergman, Public Affairs, UC Berkely News: Berkeleyan, 12
March 2008 www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/03/12_trafficking.shtml [accessed 9 January 2011] Describing herself
as "a nice Catholic girl who lived in a large, suburban house" near
Detroit during her teenage years, she said she was targeted by traffickers,
drugged, and date-raped at the age of 15 - "I was just a kid," she
said - and then blackmailed and forced to work as a prostitute "for two
long years." "They said
they would kill me and my family and my dog if I didn't do what they
said," reported Indian Workers Accuse Signal International
Of "Human Trafficking" Steve Phillips, WLOX ABC 13, www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=7977223 [accessed 9 January 2011] They talk of living
"like pigs in a cage" in a company-run "work camp." "I've been a guest worker all my life.
I've never seen these kinds of conditions," said the interpreter,
"We lived 24 people to a room. And for this, the company deducted $1,050
a month from our paychecks." Man Pleads Guilty In 'Kennel Case' Rape KPHO 5, www.kpho.com/news/15142425/detail.html [Last accessed 9 January 2011] The accused
ringleader behind a horrific 2005 kidnapping and rape case pleaded guilty on
Friday to six charges after admitting his role, Maricopa County Attorney
Andrew Thomas said. The 15-year-old
victim was kidnapped, gang raped and during her 42-day captivity, forced to
engage in acts of prostitution, Thomas said. She was mostly confined to a dog
kennel, Thomas said. Website Content Calls for Action to Combat
Human Trafficking The blogs.covchurch.org/newswire/2008/01/25/6075/ [accessed 26 August 2011] That reality hit
home for one Georgia Man Sentenced to 15 Years on Sex
Trafficking and Mann Act Charges www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/January/08_crt_058.html [accessed 9 January 2011] "Defendant
Jones' sentence sends a clear message that those who traffic in people will
be harshly punished," said U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias. "Defendant Jones preyed on numerous
young American women who fell for his fraudulent 'modeling' scheme, signed
contracts in which they owed the defendant money, then were forced and
coerced into prostitution to pay back the contracts. The case broke when two
victims were brave enough to come forward and report Jones' crimes to APD,
whose human trafficking task force worked closely with the FBI in bringing
justice to the victims." Numerous victims
were on hand for the sentencing and testified that Jones caused them to
engage in sex acts, including oral sex and vaginal intercourse, with himself
and others, by striking them and threatening to beat them. One victim
submitted her statement to the court, outlining the abuse she suffered at the
hands of Jones and stating that Jones was "a cruel and manipulative man
whose life revolved around the sexual,emotional,
physical and psychological exploitation of young women." She stated that
her life was devastated and that she even considered suicide on more than one
occasion to escape Jones' brutality. Brothel/human trafficking operation
discovered in Tumon [ Mindy Aguon, KUAM
News, January 13, 2008 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] [scroll down] Officers went to
the Blue Room in Three get max sentences for roles in human
trafficking ring Brian Donohue, The Star-Ledger, January 04,
2008 www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/three_get_max_sentences_for_ro.html [accessed 9 January 2011] A federal judge in The
Rosales-Martinez sisters admitted they helped oversee dozens of illegal
Hondurans who were forced to work six days a week and live in cramped A WKYT 27 News, Dec 13, 2007 www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/12456971.html [accessed 9 January 2011] 45-year-old Calvin
Walker was arrested yesterday morning at the The women say he
lured them here from Four Accused Of Human Trafficking,
Prostitution WBEN 930, December 11, 2007 – Source:
www.wben.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=08937 www.prostitutionsucks.com/?p=6723 [accessed 9 January 2011] Federal agents
conducted early morning raids at four massage parlors and accupressure
locations the government says were fronts for prostitution and human
trafficking. U.S. Attorney Terry Flynn
says the four suspects charged large amounts of money to women in Asia who
wanted to come to the Human trafficking more common in Ca. Nannette Miranda, KGO-TV/DT, Dec. 4, 2007 abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=5814341 [accessed 9 January 2011] Sex slaves, human trafficking ... in Grace Kahng,
TODAYshow.com contributor, 12/3/2007 today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22083762 [accessed 9 January 2011] In spring of 2004,
Katya (not her real name), like thousands of other foreign exchange
university students, was looking forward to the summer job placement that she
and a friend had received in “When we got to the
hotel in Former Wrestler Found Guilty By Federal
Jury On Federal Sex Trafficking And Forced Labor Charges www.justice.gov/usao/gan/press/2007/11-21-07.pdf [accessed 3 May 2012] In addition to
forcing the victims to work as prostitutes, Norris made the women work in and
around his two homes in Cartersville. Witnesses testified that Norris
required the victims to haul trees, lay sod, and paint. The evidence at trial
further established that Norris set strict rules and fined the women for such
infractions as talking too much or failing to exercise. In addition, he kept
the women financially indebted to him by charging them for food, medicine,
and cigarettes. Norris then told the victims that they could not leave until
their debts were paid, all the while continuing to increase the debt he
claimed he was owed. Human trafficking often below radar in
Columbus John Futty, The [accessed 9 January 2011 – access may now
be restricted] Human-trafficking
cases in "In four of
the five labor-trafficking cases, service providers indicated that, although
they knew whom in law enforcement to contact about trafficking victims, they
could not take the chance that the disclosure could lead to negative
consequences for their clients," researchers wrote in their report,
released last month. Language barriers
and the fear of arrest and deportation were among the reasons that human-trafficking
cases go unreported, the study found.
"For the undocumented, the overriding concern is about
immigration status," said Angie Plummer, executive director of the
Community Refugee and Immigration Service, one of the groups interviewed by researchers. "There is a reluctance to present
victims to officials who have the right and ability to turn them over to
(Immigration and Customs Enforcement)." Human Trafficking a Big Problem in humantrafficking.org -- Adapted from:
Matthew Schwartz, "Human Trafficking." Action news.com. 11 Nov 2007 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/809 [accessed 9 January 2011] "Sue"
says she ran away from a foster home at 13. She met a man in his 40's who promised
her free rent, meals and a job. After a few months, "Sue" says
things changed, drastically.
"He started beating me with sticks, poles, knives, hammers. It
really got out of control. So besides fighting the street you had to fight
this non-human. i was
told, if we left, he was gonna hunt us down, and,
you know, kill us." "Sara"
says the traffickers who held her poured gasoline on her while they held a
match. "They kicked and stomped on me. They dragged me by the hair.
Fifteen guys circled me and stomped on me." Ukraine woman forced to dance at strip club
testifies in D.C. Todd Spangler, Free Press forum.ukietv.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=2129&#msg_2129 [accessed 9 January 2011] Lured from the Susan Carroll, www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5251655.html [accessed 9 January 2011] The picture, with
its implicit threat, was all it took.
It was taken just before Christmas 2004. She had been thinking about
running away from the windowless bar on But Maximino "Chimino"
Mondragon knew of her plans. Carrying
a camera and Christmas presents for the woman's daughter, he had appeared
unannounced at her family's home in With similar
threats, Mondragon and a network of family members and associates operated
one of the largest human trafficking rings in Slavery in my backyard and a thousand
points of light RINF Alternative News, 22nd October 2007 rinf.com/alt-news/latest-news/slavery-in-my-backyard-and-a-thousand-points-of-light/1538/ [accessed 9 January 2011] (At the lecture) Coonan also said
that it’s happening within the Chinese community as well, with traffickers
promising young women a better life in “I think the most
shocking thing is that everything is close to home,” said Danielle May, who
attended the lecture. “This is not something that you see on the
international news being in Md. Cracks Down On Human Trafficking wjz.com/seenon/human.trafficking.training.2.430916.html [access date unavailable] One who escaped
told her story with the condition that she not be identified. "We were kept in one room, me and my daughters,"
said the woman. Their passports taken,
her children were forced to work in the home without pay while she worked on
the outside. "We've had a number
of significant cases in the A Modern Slavery Aubrey Fox, www.gothamgazette.com/article/crime/20071001/4/2304 [accessed 9 January 2011] It took 12 years
for Martina Okeke to break free. After moving from In June 2001, two
Indonesian women, who paid $3,000 each for a falsified visa, airline tickets
from Charles Duncan, Independent Weekly (INDY
WEEK), September 26, 2007 www.indyweek.com/indyweek/carys-neo-china-accused-of-human-trafficking/Content?oid=1204142 [accessed 9 January 2011] According to a
lawsuit filed in Wake County court, Neo-China's parent company, Freshco Inc., sponsored Amu Zheng
and his wife and son to come to the United States in 2001. Under immigration
law, employers can sponsor someone for a green card if they can offer a
full-time position. Once in the country, Zheng
alleges, Neo-China's owner Diana Yu and manager Chris Chang told Zheng and his family that they had to work at the
restaurant "at whatever terms they imposed"—more than 90 hours a
week at less than minimum wage. Human Trafficking: A Million-Dollar
Industry In Destin Patrick Donohue, The Destin Log ( www.thedestinlog.com/news/human-192-victims-traffi.html [accessed 9 January 2011] She was 19, petite
and brunette. She was from Eastern Europe and had been in the Men sentenced to jail for trafficking
juvenile Associated Press AP, archive.showmenews.com/2007/Sep/20070915News009.asp [accessed 9 January 2011] According to
statements made in court, Geiler took the girl to
Gray’s house in January. He told Gray the girl owed him money, and he wanted
to leave her with Gray so she could work as a prostitute to pay off her debt. Three charged in hair salon human
trafficking ring Brian Donohue, The Star-Ledger, September
06, 2007 blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/09/three_charged_in_human_traffic.html [accessed 10 January 2011] The women lived in
crowded apartments rented by the alleged ringleaders in Man Pleads Guilty as Trial is About to
Begin on Federal Sex Trafficking and Mann Act Charges [PDF] U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney David
E. Nahmias, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga, 08/28/07 www.justice.gov/usao/gan/press/2007/08-28-07c.pdf [accessed 10 January 2011] Wan J. Kim,
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights; David E. Nahmias, United States
Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia; Gregory Jones, Special Agent
in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation; and Richard Pennington, Chief,
Atlanta Police Department, today announced that Jimmie Lee Jones, also known
as "Mike Spade," 31, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, pleaded guilty
yesterday to federal charges of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking and
transporting young women across state lines for purposes of prostitution. Just after his trial began, Jones admitted
to U.S. District Court Judge William S. Duffey, Jr.
that he had lured and coerced eight young women -- including two juveniles --
into prostitution. "The defendant
in this case took advantage of numerous young women by enticing them with
promises of modeling contracts and then using force, threats, and coercion to
force them to work as prostitutes," said Assistant Attorney General Wan
J. Kim. AMW Fugitive Data File For Maribel
Rodriguez Vasquez www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=47952 [accessed 10 January 2011] [scroll down] BOGUS JOB OFFER
ENTICES GUATEMALAN GIRL TO RP diplomat: No human trafficking in case
filed by maid Veronica Uy,
Inquirer.net, [accessed 10 January 2011] According to the
Associated Press, under the plea, Reyes must pay Gado
about $78,000 to make up the difference between what she was paid and what
she was supposed to get under her contract.
Gado had claimed she was promised $8 per
hour for a 40-hour workweek and $12 an hour for overtime, but was paid $250 a
month, pay that was increased to $325 in July 2006 when she was required to
begin caring for the Reyeses’ infant granddaughter. 'Slave trade' growth prompts action in FW Aug 16, 2007 www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/081707kvueslavetrade-eh.4247b468.html [access date unavailable] The International
Chiefs of Police Association delves into the secret world of human trafficking;
and one officer has managed to breach te walls and
delve into that world. He is one of few who work in the new Fort Worth
Anti-Human Trafficking Division. "You can buy a
human being out on the street for $90 and put him to work as a slave," the
undercover said. Women, men, boys and
girls are forced into prostitution. Some can end up having sex with different
men every 15 minutes while others are purchased to work on farms or
restaurants for little to no money. "Some of them
are put to sleep in garages," the officer said. "They're locked up
in closets. They're being fed very minimal. Especially, the females are being
verbally abused, physically abused." US hands Lithuanian 7-year-sentence for
human trafficking Agence France-Presse AFP, 17 Aug 2007 www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/story.html?id=aececd0c-d55f-4138-80a7-b7d606345ea5&k=93732 [accessed 3 May 2012] Michail Aronov, 34, and his business partners "smuggled
women into the "These
criminals preyed upon the hopes and dreams of women who came to the Breitbart.com, Jan 28, 2008 www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961620/posts [accessed 10 January 2011] Christian Medical Association Doctors: Standard www.standardnewswire.com/news/303031411.html [accessed 10 January 2011] Highlighting a just-published
study showing that sex slaves spread AIDS even after their rescue from human
trafficking overlords and pimps, the nation's largest faith-based association
of doctors today called for more concerted Dr. Barrows said,
"Health officials have just begun to recognize this link, and stronger
emphasis is needed. Interventions aimed at eradicating sex trafficking,
rescuing and restoring sex-trafficked victims, and preventing future sex
trafficking need to be a more strongly emphasized strategy in the President's
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other AIDS-related programs.
Anti-trafficking measures should be specifically and consistently emphasized
in AIDS-related grant stipulations and proposal evaluations." Enslaved in the Donna M. Hughes, National Review Online,
July 30, 2007 www.nationalreview.com/articles/221700/enslaved-u-s/donna-m-hughes [accessed 10 January 2011] President Bush made
combating human trafficking a priority. Both Attorney Generals Ashcroft and
Gonzales have spoken out against trafficking in the Company in humantrafficking.org, August 05, 2007 --
Adapted from: "Company Accused Of Human Trafficking" www.kdka.com.
16 July 2007 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/669 [accessed 10 January 2011] Workers from Venture into an
abandoned limestone mine in "We made
multiple phone calls to the president of the company who then chose not to
return any of my calls or emails and the gentlemen just weren't getting
paid," Domenic Galassi, an official with Creekside Mushroom, said.
And Galassi says their situation has become
even more dire. He says each man paid upwards of $20,000 to a recruiter in 3 Arrested in Human Trafficking FBI, Jul 3, 2007 presszoom.com/story_135926.html [accessed 10 January 2011] Some factors taken
into consideration to file criminal charges against these individuals
included allegations of victims receiving rationed meals of limited quantity,
the acrobat performers not being paid the salary they were promised, their
passports and work visas being held from them, enforcers watching and
controlling the movements of the performers, and a fear of the performers
that their families in China, as well as themselves, would be harmed if they
attempted to leave. [accessed 10 January 2011] The evidence at
trial showed that during the first two weeks of May 2005, Doss conspired with
his wife, Jacquay Quinn Ford, to transport two
girls across state lines to work as prostitutes. Doss and Ford transported
the victims -- one 14 and one 16 -- from Mark Sayre, Investigative Reporter, KLAS-TV
8 News Now [accessed 10 January 2011] On Friday, the FBI
and Metro descended near Desert Inn and State struggles with legal, moral aspects
of human trafficking Brian J. Lowney,
Catholic News Service, www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=24490 [accessed 10 January 2011] "I saw the
victims in the brothels," said state Rep. Joanne Giannini,
recalling that many of the prostitutes were minors. "A lot of people
think that it doesn't exist." Giannini said when police have raided these facilities
the women refused emergency social and medical services. "They are
afraid of getting into trouble," she said. According to Garry
Bliss, director of policy and legislative affairs for Providence Mayor David
N. Cicilline, efforts have been made to provide
counseling and social services to the women, but they rejected them, fearing
retribution from their captors – the owners of the establishments who reap
big profits. He believes most of
the women to be in their 20s or 30s, and said some have probably been in this
country for some time, being moved constantly from state to state. They are
initially enslaved to pay off debts incurred in traveling to the Middle John Bowman, For The Tennessean
Advertisement, 6/22/2007 www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1185511 [accessed 10 January 2011] GIRLS LURED INTO SEX
TRADE
- As a result of November's arrests, Perfecto admitted
she knew all along that the girls, who were 13 and 17, would be coerced to
engage in prostitution in brothels in Woman Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking
Related Charges The www.humantrafficking.org/updates/681 [accessed 10 January 2011] Olga Mondragon is a
47-year-old El Salvadoran national.
She and her co-defendants conspired with others to smuggle female
illegal aliens from Central America to Falling Short of the Mark: An International
Study on the Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims [PDF] The Future Group, March 2006 www.oas.org/atip/canada/Fallingshortofthemark.pdf [accessed 10 January 2011] UNITED STATES - The RESIDENCE - Under the
Trafficking Victims Protection Act (.TVPA.)78 and Trafficking Victims
Protection Reauthorization Act (.TVPRA.),79 the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security may issue .T-Visas. to allow victims of .severe forms of human
trafficking. To remain in the country in order to provide assistance in
federal investigations and prosecutions of those responsible for the harm
they have suffered. After three years of having T-Visa status, victims may
apply for permanent residency. Victims may, in some cases, also apply for
non-immigrant status for their spouses and children; or, in the case of
victims under 21 years old, their parents. Fooled Into Sex Trafficking: Female Mexican
Immigrants in Guillermo Contreras, Express-News online,
06/02/2007 [accessed 17 April 2012] How's $600 to buy
what you'd like simply for accompanying men on trips? We can make it happen,
al otro lado — on the other
side. That pitch allegedly made by a
trio of women sounded like gold to some impressionable teens and a young
woman not making much in But rather than the
glitz they were promised, they were sold in an underground world for
prostitution, according to prosecutors and documents filed in federal court
Friday. The girls were delivered to a
man in Laws Block Trafficking; Sexual Terror
Ignored Alison Bowen and Nouhad
Moawad, Women's eNews,
05/26/07 womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3182/context/archive [Last access date unavailable] The report found
that half of all states' laws now make trafficking a felony, nine state laws
provide restitution to victims and 11 states enacted laws providing for victim
protection. Many Midwestern states, including Report Card on State Action to Combat
International Trafficking [PDF] Center For Women Policy Studies, www.centerwomenpolicy.org/documents/ReportCardonStateActiontoCombatInternationalTrafficking.pdf [accessed 10 January 2011] Each state
therefore received five letter grades, one for each type of law —
criminalization, victim protection and services, statewide interagency task
force, regulation of international marriage brokers, and regulation of travel
service providers that promote sex tourism. Each state’s individual report
card includes a brief analysis of the state’s legislation and includes
recommendations for improvements. Fourth Chinese National Pleads Guilty to
Trafficking-Related Charge www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2007/May/07_crt_380.html [accessed 10 January 2011] Each defendant
acknowledged in his or her plea having a role in recruiting and arranging
travel and immigration documents for Chinese females to travel to Beatings, Isolation and Fear: The Life of a
Slave in the Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook,
ABC News, May 21, 2007 abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3190006&page=1 [accessed 10 January 2011] Evelyn Chumbow was once a slave, but not in some distant
country. She worked right here in the [more] All
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