South Korean Government Official Embroiled In Fraud Case Against Comfort Women Group
As South Korea experiences a new wave of the COVID-19 virus, the country is faced with a crisis of a different kind. Owing to the public announcement of former comfort woman Lee Yong-soo, the government is now embroiled More...
Dallas man Tremont Blakemore charged with human trafficking for over 7 years
A Dallas man was charged Wednesday with operating a large-scale human trafficking organization. These charges were announced by U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas Erin Nealy Cox. This case was investigated More...
Prostitute Angelina Barini arrested for three fentanyl related murders, including Chef Andrea Zamperoni
A New York prostitute named Angelina Barini has been arrested in connection to three deaths, charges of conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute one or more substances containing fentanyl. Andrea More...
Malik Malveaux arrested in Santa Ana human trafficking bust
Santa Ana police said in a news release that Malik Malveaux is one of the suspects arrested in a human trafficking bust that resulted in three teens being rescued. The investigation began when officers made contact More...
Defendants Charged with Interstate Prostitution and Sex Trafficking Enterprise
An indictment was unsealed today in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine charging Shou Chao Li, 37, and Derong Miao, 37, both of Concord, New Hampshire, with one count of conspiracy to engage in interstate More...
Minnesota: Five convicted for sex trafficking women from Thailand, placing then across America
The Justice Department announced Thursday that five people have been convicted by a federal jury in St. Paul, Minn., for involvement in an international sex trafficking ring. This sex trafficking organization transported 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
South Korean Court Rules on US Troops
In South Korea’s flawed democracy, lawsuits against the government for violation of human rights hardly ever succeed. Information to use as evidence are in the government’s hands and resources available to accusers More...
Chicago sex trafficking sting net 31 arrests, national total of arrests tops 600
Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart’s office said that south suburban police arrested 31 sex buyers as part of a nearly monthlong national sex trafficking sting operation. Dart’s office stated that nationally, More...
National Center on Sexual Exploitation conducts awareness of sex trafficking during Super Bowl
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is conducting its annual Tackle Demand activism campaign to shed light on the sex trafficking that occurs every year at the Super Bowl. While the claim that More...
North Carolina human trafficking sting leads to arrests of Autumn Beal, Gregory Sterling, Alicia Halstead
The FBI and Hagerstown Police Department charged three people during a human-trafficking sting that was conducted Tuesday at hotels in the city. Hagerstown police said in a news release that the undercover operation More...
Maryland police have arrested Abiathar Vance, charged with three counts of human trafficking
Police in Maryland have charged a man with human trafficking after authorities said he trapped a 16-year-old girl into prostitution. Frederick police said Abiathar Vance, 39, was with a 16-year-old girl whom he More...
Eight UAE Princesses convicted in human trafficking sting linked to Belgium hotel
Eight Emirati princesses were convicted of human trafficking by a Belgian court on Friday and were given suspended jail terms and fines in a case stemming from their treatment of servants at a Brussels luxury hotel More...
Sex trafficking expert: Google financing ‘sex trafficking website’, calls for ban on Backpage
A new report shows that Google is financially backing legal efforts defending a sex trafficking website and opposing legal reform that could benefit thousands of sex trafficking victims. How is Google doing this? More...
Waco, Texas investigation uncovers human trafficking ring, 16 China women victims
A local investigation uncovered an international human trafficking ring that has victimized about 16 Chinese women, McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said. The human trafficking investigation in the Waco More...
