
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...

Nevada sued over legal prostitution: It promotes sexual exploitation, trafficking
Nevada’s sanction of organized sexual exploitation—that is, its legalized system of prostitution—has created powerful economic incentives for the “supply and distribution” of people for sex—especially 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...

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...

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...

Sexual exploitation activists attack HBO’s ‘The Deuce’ ‘their use of the pornography and prostitution’ as entertainment
The final episode of the first season of HBO’s new show, The Deuce, will air Sunday night, bringing to a close, for now, yet another HBO series that profits off of the sexual exploitation of women. “HBO’s 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...

FBI arrest Cornelius Lykes, aka Premo Finesse in human trafficking ring all along east coast
A Greenville, South Carolina man is accused of promoting prostitution, facilitating prostitution activity in locations throughout the East Coast and faces several charges including human trafficking by force, fraud 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...

Pennsylvania: Nathaniel Pagan now charge with human trafficking after prostitute talks
A Reading man who was arrested in a prostitution sting organized by a Spring Township detective last month faces new charges including human trafficking. Nathaniel E.R. Pagan has now been linked to a new investigation More...

Houston: Delanny Malveaux, Dorran Gillespie arrested in human trafficking crackdown
Ahead of the Super Bowl Houston police and state troopers were cracking down on prostitution and human trafficking in the area as several people arrested. Two men, Delanny Malveaux and Dorran Gillespie, were More...

#TackleDemand attempts to target sex trafficking at Super Bowl with message ‘don’t buy sex’
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) is launching a new awareness campaign with over 20 partners to target demand for sex trafficking at the Super Bowl and beyond. “How do you stop sex trafficking More...

Anti-Sexual Violence, human trafficking groups unite to fight against California’s move to legalize prostitution
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation submitted an amicus brief yesterday to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the case of ESPLERP v. Gascón. Twelve other nonprofit organizations working to combat sexual More...

California human trafficking sting update: Anthony Lott sentenced to over 9 years
A California man arrested after a human trafficking sting operation in 2015 has been sentenced to over nine years in prison, according to new details released in a statement from the Office of the District Attorney More...

Texas sex trafficking sting results in the arrest of pimps, gang members and heinous abuse of sex slaves
Four individuals, with ties to the Polywood Crips street gang in Fort Worth, have pleaded guilty to their respective roles in a child sex trafficking conspiracy. Audry Lane, aka “Spud,” 29, pleaded guilty Tuesday More...

Illinois Gov Bruce Rauner signs two bills to fight human trafficking
Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner used harsh language and the power of the office, to sign two bills targeting human trafficking and sexual exploitation across the state. Gov. Rauner labeled human trafficking a form of More...

Florida teen, William Scott, arrested after group sex with girl in school bathroom, 16 students ‘disciplined’
A Florida 16-year-old has been arrested in connection to an incident where several boys allegedly had sex with a single 15-year-old girl in the bathroom of South Fort Meyers High School, officials say. William Scott is More...