Texas border patrol bust human trafficking attempt near Laredo saving 45 adults, 4 teens
U.S. Border Patrol agents, in a single enforcement action, thwarted a human smuggling attempt and recovered a stolen trailer at the Border Patrol checkpoint on Interstate 35 (I-35), north of Laredo. The incident More...
Houston man Marquis Holmes pleads guilty to sex trafficking scheme across seven states
A southwest Houston man pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiring to sex traffic three adult women by means of force and violence in Houston and other locations across the country. photo/ Sammis Reachers This investigation More...
Sex Trafficker, Grevy Pierre-Louis Sentenced to 30 Years for Victimizing Minor Girls, Adult Women for 20 Years
Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced that GREVY GERARD PIERRE-LOUIS, a/k/a “Cadillac Slim,” a/k/a “Caddy,” was sentenced to 30 years in prison for 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...
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...
House passes human trafficking bill, targeting online sex trade, sites like backpage.com
The U.S. House of Representatives passed an historic legislative package to fight online sex trafficking, by a vote of 388 to 25. The legislation included H.R. 1865 the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online More...
Human trafficking data portal to pull information together to battle sex slavery around the world
A new initiative, the world’s first human trafficking data portal, the Counter-Trafficking Data Collaborative (CTDC), has been created by IOM, the UN Migration Agency and Polaris. photo/ Sammis Reachers “We More...
Netflix’s Sex trafficking show offends activists: there are NOT ‘Baby prostitutes only raped children’
Fifty-six survivors of sex trafficking and/or subject matter experts, social service providers, and advocates for the abolition of sexual exploitation sent a letter to Netflix executives today to express their deep More...
Human trafficking: Derrick Harper sentenced to 287 years, includes murder of Jesse Saucedo, Joseph Bradshaw
Derrick Harper is a monster and will now spend the rest of his life behind bars, sentenced to 287 years to life in prison for kidnapping women at gunpoint, raping and forcing them into prostitution. Harper faced More...
Ohio: Akron couple, Darren Townsend and Pearl Coffey indicted on human trafficking charges
An Akron couple was indicted Friday on several human trafficking charges, authorities said. Darren Townsend, 37, and Pearl Coffey, 34, are charged with multiple counts of compelling prostitution, trafficking in More...
Los Angeles human trafficking task force rescues three ‘commercially sexually exploited children’ arresting 36
From Compton comes news that a multi-agency human trafficking operation has arrested three dozen and rescued three girls this week. L.A. County Sheriff’s deputies worked undercover as part of a Los Angeles More...
Texas human trafficking bust leads to 37 arrests linked to soliciting underage children online
Texas law enforcement officials have arrested 37 people in and around Midland County as part of an ongoing investigation into human trafficking. The Department of Public Safety Criminal Investigation Division of 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...
New reports reveals human trafficking problem in Billings Montana
In a new article published on Billings Gazette, the law enforcement and FBI efforts in Montana have resulted in spotlighting the growing and serious problem in Montana communities: human trafficking. Linking human 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...
Operation Underground Railroad partners with human trafficking rescue operations in Haiti to save lifes
Operation Underground Railroad (O.U.R.) announced that the group, partnering with Haiti’s Minor Protection Brigade (BPM) and Haitian authorities, has successfully completed Operation Sainte Jou (Holy More...
Ohio: Lerenzo White, Justice White, Justin White indicted after human trafficking arrest
A federal grand jury has indicted a Columbus man with five counts of human trafficking. Lerenzo White, 30, who operates under nicknames “Justice” and “Justin,” is accused of trafficking More...
