Open Doors Report highlights persecution against women, Christian sex trafficking, Sharia Law practices
In the latest in-depth report focused on gender persecution, the 2019 Open Doors World Watch List reveals that gender contributes to a large disparity in the methods used for religious persecution. While men experience More...
Michigan: James Yun charged in human trafficking case
Madison Heights police announced Friday that James Yun has been charged in a human trafficking case, prostituting a Chinese citizen. James Yun Yun, 36, was arrested by the department’s Special Investigations More...
Operation Predator: Former softball coach Ryan Offineer sentenced to 10 years in child porn case
An Oklahoma man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for possessing child pornography. U.S. Attorney Brian J. Kuester, Eastern District of Oklahoma, announced this sentence. The charges arose from an investigation More...
Pakistani Senate committee passes draft bill increasing minimum marriage age to 18
The Upper House of Pakistan’s Parliament has approved a draft bill raising the minimum marriage age to 18 years. The meeting of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights unanimously approved the Child Marriage More...
Houston: Former massage therapist Jason Gandy gets 30 years for sex trafficking children, moving teens here from Europe
A Houston man was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison Tuesday for trafficking children for commercial sex. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations More...
Feds bust New York sex trafficking ring, arrest 19: Hubert Dupigny, Hensley Dupigny named in case
Federal prosecutors in New York have charged nineteen people tied to a sex trafficking ring that exploited teenage victims at the Hawthorne Cedar Knolls Residential Treatment Center, a center for children with More...
Dallas: Helen Kim indicted for prostitution, human trafficking ring
Following a sting operation at a Dallas hotel earlier this month, law enforcement liberated dozens of women sold for sex, announced U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox, Northern District of Texas. This week, a federal More...
Violent Dallas pimp, Allen Nash, gets life in prison for sex trafficking
A Dallas-area pimp who preyed on teenage girls was sentenced Friday to life in federal prison. This sentenced was announced by U.S. Attorney Erin Nealy Cox, Northern District of Texas. This investigation was conducted More...
Yazidi woman, Nadia Murad, wins Nobel Peace Price
(International Christian Concern) –Nadia Murad, a young Yazidi woman who was held captive by ISIS as a sex slave for 3 months, has won the Nobel Peace Prize. Since her escape, she has become a human rights activist More...
Puerto Rico: Former teacher Yaira Tanies Cotto-Flores sentenced to 10 years in prison for sex trafficking case
Former teacher Yaira Tanies Cotto-Flores was sentenced Monday to 10 years in prison followed by eight years of supervised release for transporting a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual conduct. U.S. Immigration More...
Former Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey sentenced to 15 years for child sex trafficking
Ralph Allen Lee Shortey, 36, has been sentenced to fifteen years in prison for soliciting a minor to engage in a commercial sex act. “Today’s sentence shows that federal law enforcement will take whatever More...
New UK Report: Child trafficking more than doubled in just one year
A shocking new report indicates that child trafficking case in the United Kingdom have increased by 66 percent from 2016 to 2017. According to the report, by the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring Group, 2,118 minors More...
California Elk Grove man Abdul Basier Hashimi guilty for trafficking girl since she was 13, met on Tagged
A California man in Elk Grove struck a plea deal to sex trafficking of a minor on Friday. Abdul Basier Hashimi The Department of Justice reported that Abdul Basier Hashimi, 26, confessed to meeting a girl on More...
Cook Country arrests hundreds in sex trafficking crackdown as part of National Johns Suppression Initiative
The Cook County sheriff’s office said Wednesday that hundreds of sex buyers and six “pimps” were arrested as part of the nationwide effort against sex trafficking: the National Johns Suppression More...
Florida man, Theodore Symonds, sentences to 17 years for traveling to Dominican Republican to have sex with minors
A Florida man was sentenced Thursday to more than 17 years in prison and 30 years of supervised release after pleading guilty to traveling to the Dominican Republic for engaging in illicit sexual conduct with minors. More...
Fort Worth sex trafficking ring ends with a life sentence for ‘Zigg’ Davis, ‘Pooh’ Sanders and ‘Pedro’ Lagrone
A Fort Worth man was sentenced Monday to life in federal prison, announced Erin Nealy Cox U.S. Attorney of the Northern District of Texas. This case was investigated by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s More...
Ride For Freedom Bike Team Crossing USA to Fight Human Trafficking
Four young men with no biking experience or formal training are attempting to bike 3,200 miles in 50 days to raise money to fight human trafficking. Tanner Ming (20), Andre Palare (20), Anthony Kucich (21) and More...
Oakland human trafficking case: James Monroe charged for running teen girl sex trade
An Oakland man is now facing nine felony charges, including human trafficking, rape and kidnapping, as Contra Costa County prosecutors Tuesday filed charges in a sex trade bust. James Monroe James Monroe, 26, More...
President Trump signs FOSTA to fight human sex trafficking
President Trump signed H.R. 1865, the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA), on Wednesday. The anti-human trafficking bill was passed by both houses of Congress. Photo/Sawso.org Trump More...
Women’s March organizers are calling FBI’s seizure of backpage.com over human trafficking charges a ‘crisis for sex workers’
The top online human trafficking site, Backpage.com, was seized by the federal government two weeks after the U.S. House and Senate passed a bill to stop online human sex trafficking. Now organizers from the Women’s More...
