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Evangelical Focus
April 26, 2018
Unfortunately, trafficking and prostitution have been around for centuries. The passage of SESTA/FOSTA is not going to end trafficking. If you assume that a trafficker has only one victim, and won 1,000 dollars a day, then he is making 365,000 dollars a year. We would be foolish to think that traffickers wouldÃâà...
MDJOnline.com
April 26, 2018
The 2019 Super Bowl, one of the biggest events Atlanta and Fulton County will host since they welcomed the 1996 Summer Olympics, could also bring with it an activity Fulton Commission Chairman Robb Pitts said is of crisis proportion in the city, human trafficking and child prostitution. Last month, theÃâà...
The Missoulian
April 26, 2018
She added that she thinks many people have a misconception that human trafficking only happens in bigger cities, not smaller communities like those in ... publishers — like the recently shuttered Backpage.com — legally responsible if third parties use them to post ads for prostitution or sex trafficking.
San Bernardino County Sun
April 25, 2018
Two Colton residents who were arrested last week as part of a prostitution and human trafficking investigation in downtown San Bernardino were arraigned on felony charges Tuesday afternoon in San Bernardino Superior Court. A San Bernardino police detective saw a vehicle driven by Matthew FraiseÃâà...
Dallas News
April 25, 2018
Carl Ferrer, the Dallas-based site's CEO, pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy to facilitate prostitution in state courts in Texas and California and a federal ... Attorney General Ken Paxton deserves credit for launching a Human Trafficking and Transnational Organized Crime unit two years ago.
Green Bay Press Gazette
April 18, 2018
GREEN BAY – The end of Craigslist personal ads and Backpage.com this month was a significant step forward in the fight against human trafficking, but ... The act is meant to give authorities the ability to hold those who run websites accountable if they knowingly allow sex trafficking or prostitution to occur.
Reason (blog)
April 16, 2018
The one trafficking charge in all this comes from Texas, where Backpage LLC plead guilty to "knowingly receiving a benefit from participating in a venture" that caused the compelled prostitution of Erika Brewster, then around age 16 or 17. On behalf of Backpage, CEO Carl Ferrer has entered a guilty plea toÃâà...
KLTV
April 5, 2018
According to a grand jury indictment, Ross “from trafficking by recruiting and enticing and providing Victim #1… through force, fraud, or coercion and caused the complainant to engage in conduct prohibited….” Russell delivered the verdict in a bench trial on Wednesday. Lilly's next trial date has not yet beenÃâà...
KTRK-TV
April 4, 2018
... of compelling prostitution by force and one count of aggravated promotion of prostitution. Anyone with additional information is asked to call the HPD Vice Division Human Trafficking Unit at 713-308-8600 or Crime Stoppers at 713-222-TIPS. Report a Typo. Related Topics: prostitutionHuman TraffickingÃâà...
Chron.com
April 4, 2018
... police detailed a major human trafficking bust Wednesday that led to the arrest of a man who allegedly pimped out 10 women throughout the country. Marquis Dominick Holmes, 27, was arrested Saturday at his southwest Houston apartment on five felony charges accusing him of running a prostitutionÃâà...
CW39
April 4, 2018
The suspect is charged with two counts of trafficking of a person, two counts of compelling prostitution by force and one count of aggravated promotion of prostitution. According to the Houston Police Department Vice Division Human Trafficking Unit, Holmes forced and coerced at least 10 female victims toÃâà...
whnt.com
April 3, 2018
LIMESTONE COUNTY, Ala. – A prostitution ring that was in operation for months has been uncovered in Limestone County. The Limestone County Sheriff's Office confirmed that 35-year-old Cricket Darlene Kimbrough is facing 2nd-degree human trafficking charges. She is also facing other recent chargesÃâà...
LA Daily News
April 3, 2018
That's a key message participants hope to convey at a West Valley anti-human trafficking panel that Soroptimist International of San Fernando Valley is presenting ... Sex trafficking and prostitution can happen to a person regardless of one's socio-economic status, race, gender or age, said Stephany Powell,Ãâà...
Palm Beach Post
April 2, 2018
Miguel Maradiaga appears in court with an attorney Monday, April 2, 2018, facing human-trafficking charges. ... brothels and prostitution houses from suburban Lake Worth to Martin County was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail on Sunday on human-trafficking and prostitution-related charges.
Sacramento Bee
April 1, 2018
A Sacramento man was arrested on charges of human trafficking in Ventura County last week after investigators said he forced multiple victims – including minors from the Sacramento area – to engage in prostitution. The investigation that culminated in the arrest of 31-year-old James Powell began whenÃâà...
Woburn Daily Times
April 1, 2018
“You can post an ad at any time or moment and a sex buyer can so quickly retrieve, search for, and get whatever they want,” said Jasmine Grace Marino, a local sex trafficking survivor and founder of the Bags of Hope Ministry, which reaches out to women affected by trafficking, prostitution, addiction andÃâà...
Morning Times
March 31, 2018
TOWANDA, Pa. (AP) — Human trafficking. Prostitution. It's not just happening in foreign places too distant, unnamed people represented only by numbers in a statistic. It's happening in Bradford County too — it's just hard to see. Young girls have been sold by their father to visiting hunters for sex inÃâà...
LancasterOnline
March 31, 2018
TOWANDA, Pa. (AP) — Human trafficking. Prostitution. It's not just happening in foreign places too distant, unnamed people represented only by numbers in a statistic. It's happening in Bradford County too — it's just hard to see. Young girls have been sold by their father to visiting hunters for sex inÃâà...
KSLA-TV
March 30, 2018
Seventy-two people, including one minor, were rounded up during a four-day operation targeting human trafficking and prostitution in Shreveport. ... They were booked into Caddo Correctional Center, the Bossier City Jail or the Shreveport City Jail and mostly on prostitution- and/or drug-related charges.
News 12 Long Island
March 29, 2018
A 44-count indictment was unsealed Thursday against five alleged gang members and associates accused in connection with running a prostitution ring in Suffolk County. The indictment details how the alleged Bloods gang members and associates preyed on the drug addictions of four women and turnedÃâà...
Lowell Sun
March 29, 2018
"The defendant used a website with the express purpose of recruiting a woman to engage in prostitution. This case highlights the importance of online vigilance by law enforcement officials as human trafficking cases are not always easy to identify and they may often present as incidents of prostitution orÃâà...
Newsday
March 29, 2018
Five suspected members and associates of the Bloods gang face multiple sex trafficking and other charges after their victims were “physically threatened” ... describing a nightmarish scenario in which young and sometimes drug-addicted women were forced into prostitution to pay off their narcotic debts.
Cleveland Jewish News
March 29, 2018
A bill to make taking legal action against websites hosting advertisements for prostitution and human trafficking more feasible passed the U.S. Senate March 21. It was backed unanimously by the Greater Cleveland Board of Rabbis. Rabbi Stephen Weiss of B'nai Jeshurun Congregation in Pepper Pike saidÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 29, 2018
Linus Undiandeye, 32, made his first appearance in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Thursday after a grand jury indicted him on involuntary manslaughter, human trafficking, promoting prostitution, trafficking in fentanyl and the club-drug molly and other charges. Brandy Stergis, 20, and Jose Bell,Ãâà...
ABC15 Arizona
March 28, 2018
According to Rasheta, the Mesa Police Department conducts these types of operations each year "in a continuous effort to reduce the demand that fuels human trafficking from our community." Police ask that anyone who has information about possible human trafficking contact your local police departmentÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 27, 2018
Though rural Bradford County has presumably far fewer incidents of prostitution and human trafficking than areas with bigger populations, one could do a quick Craigslist search and see individuals seeking or offering sex in Athens, Sayre, Towanda, Troy, Canton, even Ulster and Gillett. However, moneyÃâà...
Guardian (blog)
March 26, 2018
The former beauty queen, who reigned in 1965 and recently hosted the reigning Miss Nigeria Florida, United States, Martha Ogionwo, on her first visit to Nigeria, told newsmen that the Federal Government and parents are not doing enough to curb the rate of prostitution and human trafficking in Nigeria.
Chicago Daily Herald
March 26, 2018
Congress has passed anti-online sex trafficking legislation long supported by Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, prompting Craigslist to remove its personals ads and leading other prostitution-themed websites to shut down. The U.S. Senate last week overwhelmingly approved the Fight Online Sex TraffickingÃâà...
WSOC Charlotte
March 24, 2018
YORK COUNTY, S.C. - Rock Hill police Officer John Ranier has made several arrests for prostitution and he is always looking for possible victims of human trafficking. "It's sad to see,” he said. “Some of these women are forced to do despicable acts. I'm not sure of the ages of the youngest ones I've seen, butÃâà...
New York Times
March 24, 2018
Craigslist has faced criticism over its role in facilitating prostitution and trafficking before. About a decade ago, after reaching an agreement with 40 state attorneys general, it undertook a series of changes in order to curb the practices. The online forums site Reddit also removed a handful of escort-relatedÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
March 23, 2018
OXFORD — A federal jury in U.S. District Court in Oxford on Wednesday reached a verdict in a human trafficking case. The jury found Raymorris Asencio, 31, of Hattiesburg, guilty of human trafficking and transporting a minor across state lines to engage in prostitution, according to U.S. Attorney William C.
ABC News
March 19, 2018
Francis, who has made the fight against human trafficking and modern-day sex slaves a priority of his pontificate, urged young people to take up the fight against trafficking and forced prostitution. "This is one of the battles that I ask you young people to do, for the dignity of women," he said. He said forcedÃâà...
The Bakersfield Californian
March 18, 2018
Just after the Kern County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance regulating massage parlors to crack down on suspected human trafficking and prostitution, roughly 25 parlor owners shut their doors and fled town, Assistant Public Health Director Brynn Carrigan said. “Some people just didn't want toÃâà...
The Bakersfield Californian
March 18, 2018
Just after the Kern County Board of Supervisors passed an ordinance regulating massage parlors to crack down on suspected human trafficking and prostitution, roughly 25 parlor owners shut their doors and fled town, Assistant Public Health Director Brynn Carrigan said. “Some people just didn't want toÃâà...
News & Observer
March 17, 2018
A week after raiding an Apex hotel and arresting one man for promoting prostitution and citing four women for soliciting prostitution, police are urging the public to be on the lookout for signs of human trafficking. The raid on March 9 occurred as part of a joint operation with the Salvation Army ProjectÃâà...
Wave Breaker
March 17, 2018
Child trafficking can be referred to as “modern day slavery”. Only second to the illegal drug industry, human trafficking is a criminal organization and it exists in every state in the U.S.. Any person can be trafficked regardless of race, age, citizenship, gender, class, or education when forcefully pressured orÃâà...
Tribune-Review
March 16, 2018
Police arrested a Cranberry hotel patron for allegedly running a human trafficking and prostitution operation involving at least one juvenile girl, according to the Tribune-Review's news partner WPXI. Cranberry police charged Oscar Carter with human trafficking; only one girl was cited in the police complaintÃâà...
Kansas City Star
March 16, 2018
A 32-year-old man has been charged with forcing a young mother to travel the country and work as a prostitute. Clifford D. Brewster was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Kansas City with sex trafficking of an adult by force, fraud or coercion. Brewster, who according to court documents is aÃâà...
WDAM-TV
March 16, 2018
Last year, Mississippi received a "B" rating on human trafficking from the prevention group Shared Hope International. That rating is an upgrade from the ... trafficking prevention advocate. "For purposes of our human trafficking law and our prostitution statute, someone under the age of 17 cannot consent.”.
My Panhandle
March 16, 2018
Panama City, Fla. - A Panama City woman has been arrested for allegedly trafficking other women into prostitution. According to the Bay County Sheriff's Office, 27 year old Victoria Taunton intentionally recruited another person to work in prostitution. Taunton threatened financial harm to that person whenÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
March 16, 2018
Police tell Channel 11 a call from an agent from the FBI's human trafficking task force led them to a man named Oscar Carter in the hotel, where officers say he was running a human trafficking and prostitution operation. According to the criminal complaint, the juvenile female he had under his control wasÃâà...
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
March 14, 2018
LANCASTER - A Lancaster resident was arrested in connection with a suspected human trafficking ring that allegedly trafficked nearly a dozen women in ... are facing several felonies, including engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity, trafficking in persons, compelling prostitution and promoting prostitution.
WECT-TV6
March 14, 2018
A New Hanover County jury found a man guilty of human trafficking and promoting prostitution charges on Tuesday afternoon, District Attorney Ben David said. Roderick Jermaine Boykins, 39, was found guilty of five counts of human trafficking of an adult victim, two counts of sexual servitude of an adultÃâà...
CBS Los Angeles
March 14, 2018
Federal prosecutors said Melanie Denae Williams was charged Tuesday with trafficking minors for sex and using force or fraud to coerce an adult into prostitution. The indictment also names her as “Pretty Hoe.” Prosecutors say Williams ordered a hooker she recruited through social media to strip and threwÃâà...
NBC4i.com
March 14, 2018
COLUMBUS (WCMH) — A Franklin County grand jury indicted four people on RICO charges for allegedly luring women into human trafficking. Curtis Deshane Gossett, 59, Stacy Anne Rockney, 44, Christina Blair Austin, 28, and Jeffery Martin Bagley, 37, are all facing charges. Those charges includeÃâà...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
March 13, 2018
An Irondequoit man who assaulted women whom he sexually trafficked has been convicted of 22 criminal counts, including sex trafficking and promoting prostitution. A jury in state Supreme Court Tuesday convicted John Spencer, 42, of 22 criminal counts. The crimes largely stemmed from Spencer'sÃâà...
WECT-TV6
March 13, 2018
A New Hanover County jury found a man guilty of human trafficking and promoting prostitution charges on Tuesday afternoon, District Attorney Ben David ... Roderick Jermaine Boykins, 39, was found guilty of five counts of human trafficking of an adult victim, two counts of sexual servitude of an adult victim,Ãâà...
The Oakland Press
March 6, 2018
“Individuals who prey on and coerce young women into prostitution are despicable,” Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette said in a statement. “I want to thank my department's Human Trafficking Unit that continues to tackle the horrible allegations of human trafficking again and again. This is a difficult,Ãâà...
Patch.com
March 3, 2018
The operation was the result of numerous complaints from citizens to Washington State Patrol and Lakewood Police regarding prostitution at Pierce County truck stops. "It's about ending the cycle of human trafficking," says WSP Chief John R. Batiste. "This operation not only helps protect the victims ofÃâà...
KING5.com
March 3, 2018
A sting operation in Pierce County rescued victims of prostitution and human trafficking this week in "Operation Human Freight." Washington State Patrol and Lakewood police set up the operation, which centered on truck stops, after receiving complaints from citizens. Detectives went undercover to connectÃâà...
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