October 26, 2009
As published by CNN Justice
(CNN) — Law enforcement authorities have recovered 52 children and arrested 60 pimps allegedly involved in child prostitution, the FBI announced Monday.
More than 690 people in all were arrested on state and local charges, the FBI stated.
The arrests were made over the past three days as part of a nationwide law enforcement initiative conducted on the federal, state and local levels, the bureau said.
“Child prostitution continues to be a significant problem in our country, as evidenced by the number of children rescued through the continued efforts of our crimes against children task forces,” Kevin Perkins, assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, said in a written statement.
“There is no work more important than protecting America’s children and freeing them from the cycle of victimization.”
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October 26, 2009
As published by Eye Witness News
The Salvation Army has called for legislation on human trafficking to be passed as soon as possible.
The civil society NGO says there are concerns human trafficking will increase ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
It says traffickers are known to target international sporting events.
It is believed criminals exploit the situation by making young girls and women available for sexual favours.
“It is the law against human trafficking, it contains good background, good definitions, it contains different types of human trafficking and it needs to be passed,” said The Salvation Army’s Marieke Venter.
October 26, 2009
As published by thonline.com
Police arrested two northeast Iowa women on human trafficking charges Thursday, alleging they transported a 13-year-old Dubuque female to Chicago for prostitution.
Breanne M. Morgan, 18, of Dubuque, and Shelby R. Johnson, 18, of Postville, Iowa, were arrested on a warrant charging enticing away a minor.
Johnson and Morgan are accused of traveling to Chicago in November 2008 with a then-13-year-old runaway from a residential facility. A confidential informant told police of overhearing the women talking about the teen having sex with multiple men while drugged, according to court documents.
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October 26, 2009
As published by the apa
Baku. Elbrus Seyfullayev – APA. 71 human trafficking cases registered and 18 groups and one organized group neutralized as a result of preventive-operational measures and totally 65 criminals were unmasked in Azerbaijan in the past period of 2009.
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October 26, 2009
As published by Eye Witness News
The Salvation Army wants the spotlight to be on human trafficking ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
The non-profit organisation says public awareness is increasing steadily but much more can be done.
Rights organisations say international sporting events like the soccer spectacle are draw cards for traffickers.
According to the Salvation Army, 450 000 of the two million people trafficked each year are in Africa.
The NGO says many rural women are lured with promises of work, education and a better life but are prostituted when they arrive in big cities.
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October 23, 2009
Donating my time as a volunteer for iSanctuary has been an eye-opening experience. Never before have I been so aware, or more affected, by the plight of human trafficking and sexual exploitation of young girls. Exploitation is all around us, from magazine ads depicting pre-teen girls as sex objects, to television shows and music videos showing violence and disrespect for women. The last thing I expected when going on a camping trip with my family last week at Vail Lake Resort was to come face to face with the horrible way in which exploitation of this kind has permeated our lives. On Saturday night, the resort hosted its annual Halloween Costume Contest. To my horror, the winners of the contest were two young girls, probably no older than 15, scantily dressed up like prostitutes, who were chained to a little boy about 8 years old, who was dressed up as a pimp! The cheers from the audience were more than I could stomach. What is happening to our society? I understand that we are in a free country and we are allowed to express ourselves, but our children flaunting prostitution? Really? Is our society so desensitized that we are allowing our own children to play dress-up as prostitutes and pimps? Here we are trying to fight human-trafficking and prostitution among innocent young victims around the world, and right in our own backyard we are allowing our children to glamorize this very thing during Halloween. My heart shudders at the thought. I hope each of you will take it upon yourselves to help instill good values in our young people, do what you can volunteering for iSanctuary, and help make a difference.
Anonymous
October 23, 2009
As published by The Flint Journal
BURTON, Michigan — Lisa Brant could have kept quiet about the horror her daughter endured.
Raped repeatedly, drugged and poised to be sold on the Internet for $300,000 to a man in Texas.
But Brant, 38, doesn’t want to see another family endure the same hell hers did just three years ago in Florida.
So the Burton mother of six is speaking out. “I just want people to open their damn eyes,” she said.
Two weeks ago, Brant flew out to New York to appear on the “Today” for a segment with host Meredith Vieira about human trafficking.
And, a MSNBC documentary called “Sex Slaves in the Suburbs” premiered earlier this month and featured her daughter (msnbc.msn.com and look under documentaries).
“This is not a story anymore,” said Brant. “This is my life.”
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October 23, 2009
As published by the Chicago Breaking News Center
Cook County sheriff’s police conducting a sting discovered three women from Thailand who told investigators they had been forced to work as prostitutes in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Texas in the three weeks they have been in the United States.
The sheriff’s office said it suspects the women were caught in a human trafficking ring that offered them for “services” on at least two Web sites.
The three women were in contact with the Thai consulate in Chicago this afternoon, said Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Patterson.
The women had arrived in the United States three weeks ago, and operators of the ring took their passports and demanded $60,000 before they could get their passports back, according to a sheriff’s press release. The women are not expected to be charged with a crime, the sheriff’s office said.
The three women were discovered on Thursday after investigators answered an ad on a Web site for a “super model, hot, sexy Asian bombshell,” the office said. An investigator was directed to go to a Schiller Park intersection and call the contact in the ad again; they were then sent to a specific room in a motel in the 4100 block of North Mannheim Road in Schiller Park.
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October 23, 2009
As published by iReport
Not that many people care, but did you know we have a deficit right now? Did you know this deficit is caused because of unfair trade?
Did you also know that many of these corporations you worship are leaving the United States not to save tax money, but so they can basically rape and pillage 3rd world nations all in the name of profits?
Food for thought
Nike: Nike is one of the largest, most popular, and most profitable shoe and clothing companies in the world. But the reality for many workers overseas making Nike shoes and clothing is far less rosy. Workers are paid wages insufficient to meet their basic needs, are not allowed to organize independent unions, and often face health and safety hazards.
Disney: Factory staff making some of Walt Disney’s most popular Christmas toys are working up to 18 hours a day for as little as 16p an hour, an investigation has found.
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October 19, 2009
As published by the Belfast Telegraph
Today is EU anti-trafficking day and the Immigrant Council of Ireland is calling for increased support for victims of the sex trade.
The latest research shows that 79% of all human trafficking is for the illegal sex industry.
Countries such as Sweden and Norway have seen a decrease in trafficking since they criminalised the purchase of sexual services and support groups here want the government to follow the lead of those countries.
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