Human Trafficking in [USA Street Children in [USA] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [USA] [other countries] |
Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery In the early years of the 21st
Century - 2000 to 2010 gvnet.com/humantrafficking/USA.htm
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency estimates that 50,000
people are trafficked into or transited through the U.S.A. annually as sex
slaves, domestics, garment, and agricultural slaves. The United States is a destination country for thousands
of men, women, and children trafficked largely from Mexico and East Asia, as
well as countries in South Asia, Central America, Africa, and Europe, for the
purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. Three-quarters of all foreign
adult victims identified during the Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 were victims of
trafficking for forced labor. Some trafficking victims, responding to
fraudulent offers of employment in the United States, migrate
willingly—legally and illegally—and are subsequently subjected to conditions
of involuntary servitude or debt bondage at work sites or in commercial sex.
An unknown number of American citizens and legal residents are trafficked
within the country, primarily for sexual servitude. The U.S. Government (USG) in 2008 continued to advance the
goal of eradicating human trafficking in the United States. This coordinated
effort includes several federal agencies and approximately $23 million in FY
2008 for domestic programs to boost anti-trafficking law enforcement efforts,
identify and protect victims of trafficking, and raise awareness of
trafficking as a means of preventing new incidents. – Adapted from |
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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Anti-Human Trafficking Resources - 888-3737-888 Homeland Security www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1265647798662.shtm [accessed 8 January 2011] VICTIMS - If you are a victim, or believe
you might be a victim, of human trafficking, seek help. The toll-free
National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available to answer calls
in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7 days a
week, every day of the year. Call for help. Call with questions
- Any time - Any language - 888-3737-888 Call 911 if you are experiencing
an emergency Gov't Effort to Stem Human Trafficking
Helps Very Few Editor Pueng Vongs,
a journalism fellow in Child and Family Policy of the University of
Maryland-Foundation for Child Development, Commentary, Pacific News Service
PNS, Dec 16, 2004 news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=df2c06061d2a7eacf62138f61492e80f [accessed 26 August 2011] But what the ads don't mention is,
in order to take advantage of these benefits,
victims must first agree to cooperate in the criminal Investigations of their
abusers. This is not a viable option for most. Those who cooperate may
face retaliation from their exploiters or risk harm to their loved ones in
their homelands. For example, a Thai domestic worker who has agreed to
testify against her abuser may want to bring her two children from Feds charge three Kansas City-area companies with labor
trafficking www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/05/25/daily15.html [accessed 8 January 2011] “This RICO indictment alleges an
extensive and profitable criminal enterprise in which hundreds of illegal
aliens were employed at hotels and other businesses across the country,”
Whitworth said in the release. “The defendants allegedly used false
information to acquire fraudulent work visas for these foreign nationals.
Many of their employees were allegedly victims of human trafficking who were
coerced to work in violation of the terms of their visa without proper pay
and under the threat of deportation. The defendants also required them to
reside together in crowded, substandard and overpriced apartments.” Many of the workers were employed at
hotels in the Child maids now being exported to US Associated Press AP, Dec-28-2008 www.zimbio.com/AP+News/articles/7537/Child+maids+now+being+exported [accessed 8 January 2011] Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian
couple brought her from a poor village in northern Once behind the walls of gated
communities like this one, these children never go to school. Unbeknownst to
their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court
records, police transcripts and interviews. Shyima cried when she found out she was
going to She arrived at Young workers in the oldest profession - Clark County
girls make up a third of the underage sex workers in Portland Isolde Raftery,
The Columbian, December 6, 2008 -- Source: www.columbian.com/article/20081207/NEWS02/712079963 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3628 [accessed 8 January 2011] Sarah was 16 and addicted to crack
cocaine when she heard there was easy money to make in the parking lot of a
fast food restaurant off ‘SNITCHES DIE, YOU KNOW’ - “I can cite case after case of
girls coming from average families, and once the pimp was able to intervene,
the family didn’t matter anymore,” Dick said. “I know of officers’ daughters
who got into it, a federal prosecutor’s daughter, a DA’s daughter, a
politician’s daughter.” Cherise was a rebellious 15-year-old when she met her
first pimp, Deandre Green, at Human trafficking cases increase in El Paso Louie Gilot, Libertas,
November 12, 2006 libertasuiuc.blogspot.com/2006/11/human-trafficking-cases-increase-in-el_12.html [accessed 8 January 2011] Gardes showed the photograph of a field
worker standing on top of a large farm truck -- a scene common across the
Southwest. His name is Ricardo, she said. He was smuggled across the border
in Sexual Slavery in C.S.I. , February 9, 2004 -- Source: www.scientology.org/news-media/news/2004/040209.html groups.yahoo.com/group/Shetubondhon/message/7981?l=1 [accessed 8 January 2011] She was a teenage girl from an
impoverished village in Runaway raped, held as sex slave Judi Villa and Lindsey Collom,
The www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1109girlrescue09.html [accessed 8 January 2011] Since September, the
15-year-old girl had been raped repeatedly, threatened with death and sold
for sex over the Internet, police said. Her captors hid the runaway in
a hollowed-out box spring covered with a piece of wood and tucked underneath
a bed in a small apartment complex adjacent to Interstate 17 in west The (ongoing) LibertadLatina, July 31, 2009 www.libertadlatina.org/LatAm_US_San_Diego_Crisis_Index.htm [accessed 8 January 2011] The articles here below describe
one of the largest known child and youth sex trafficking cases in the ***
ARCHIVES *** Anti-Human Trafficking Resources - 888-3737-888 Homeland Security www.dhs.gov/files/programs/gc_1265647798662.shtm [accessed 8 January 2011] VICTIMS - If you are a victim, or believe
you might be a victim, of human trafficking, seek help. The toll-free
National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline is available to answer
calls in over 170 languages from anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, every day of the year. Call for help. Call with questions
- Any time - Any language - 888-3737-888 Call 911 if you are experiencing
an emergency A Blight on the Nation: Slavery in Today's Ron Soodalter, The Carnegie
Council, April 27, 2009 www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/commentary/data/000122 [accessed 8 January 2011] Overwhelmingly, they come on the
promise of a better life, with the opportunity to work and prosper in These people do not represent a
class of poorly paid employees, working at jobs they might not like. They
exist specifically to work, they are unable to leave, and are forced to live
under the constant threat and reality of violence. By definition, they are
slaves. Today, we call it human trafficking, but make no mistake: It is the
slave trade. For 2 refugees, a nightmare in captivity Patricia Montemurri, Free Press,
Nov. 7, 2010 pqasb.pqarchiver.com/freep/access/2182299451.html?FMT=ABS&date=Nov+07%2C+2010 [partially accessed 26 August 2011 - access restricted] Leave your family in Kiev,
Ukraine, and come to learn English and work as a waitress at a seaside summer
resort, they told the 19-year-old Katya, which is
not her real name. Instead, when Katya and a friend accepted the offer and flew to the For nine months, Katya and her friend, who spoke no English, lived in a Kameel Stanley & Jamal Thalji, [access information unavailable] Police have arrested a fifth man
in connection with what authorities believe is the first human trafficking
ring in the area that involved local women as victims. The warrant details how the ring
lured one woman in with promises of financial help, then took her captive,
repeatedly raped and beat her, then prostituted her and other women at a
Pinellas County strip club. Helping those hurt by human trafficking CJaye, May 23, 2009 – Source: legal-ledger.com/item.cfm?recID=11817 www.nowpublic.com/world/helping-those-hurt-human-trafficking [accessed 8 January 2011] Bukola Oriola
came to But her life here quickly became
more of a nightmare, Bukola, 32, explained in
fluent English at a state Capitol news conference on Thursday. During the next two years Bukola became a victim of human trafficking – at the
hands of the man she married. “I was alone in the house. I cried
to go out. I was always looking forward to Sunday to go to church,” Bukola said. When
she was pregnant, the man had her confined to the house. After she gave
birth, she was turned into the man’s sex slave. When the man realized she
could braid hair, he’d have her work in Pinellas deputies: 3 arrested in human trafficking case Ray Reyes, The [accessed 8 January 2011] A waterfront home became a prison
for several women who were told they would be taken care of but were instead
forced into a life of prostitution, authorities say. The women also had to dance at clubs in
the Politics of the Plate: The Price of Tomatoes Barry Estabrook, Gourmet
Magazine, March 2009 www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/03/politics-of-the-plate-the-price-of-tomatoes?currentPage=1 [accessed 8 January 2011] The beige stucco house at Lucas’s “room” turned out to be
the back of a box truck in the junk-strewn yard, shared with two or three
other workers. It lacked running water and a toilet, … Everything had a
price. Lucas was soon $300 in debt. After a month of ten-hour workdays, he
figured he should have paid that debt off. But when Lucas—slightly built and
standing less than five and a half feet tall—inquired about the balance, Navarrete threatened to beat him should he ever try to
leave. Instead of providing an accounting, Navarrete
took Lucas’s paychecks, cashed them, and randomly doled out pocket money, $20
some weeks, other weeks $50. Taking a day off was not an option.
If Lucas became ill or was too exhausted to work, he was kicked in the head,
beaten, and locked in the back of the truck. Other members of Navarrete’s dozen-man crew were slashed with knives, tied
to posts, and shackled in chains. Trafficking victims try to remake lives Monica Rhor, Associated Press
AP, April 13, 2009 www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/04/13/0413trafficking.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Like dozens of other workers from How Jonathan Abel, www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article984066.ece [accessed 9 January 2011] She came from “Rape Trees” Frame Arizona-Mexico Border: Grim Reminders
of Human Trafficking ChattahBox, March 15, 2009 [accessed 9 January 2011] A recent report from the Cronkite
News Service, a student-run news service of These “rape trees” are becoming
more common along the Arizona border counties of Pima and Cochise, as coyotes
and drug cartel members find human trafficking more lucrative than drug
smuggling. Horror of teen sex slavery not foreign woe; it's here Alan Johnson, The [accessed 9 January 2011 – access may now be restricted] Minutes after getting a call, "I can't describe to you the
feeling of terror. No child should ever have to know that kind of fear. I
didn't know what I was going to have to endure that night, for how long, or
if I was going to come back home." What started innocently with Dancer in human trafficking case fears family will be
dishonored www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/gwinnett/stories/2009/01/16/human_trafficking_lilburn.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Shirke is one of six entertainers that
were allegedly recruited from India with promises of profits - tips - from
their dancing at the bar and restaurant, only to be paid slave wages and have
every movement carefully guarded once they arrived in Georgia on Nov.
20. Shirke
is worried the arrest of her bosses will shame her parents and brother in The doors to the five-bedroom
house where the entertainers lived in Lilburn were always dead-bolted from
the inside by guards who stayed in the sparsely furnished house with them, Shirke said. She said the girls, who did not have the key
to the door, were not permitted to go anywhere without an escort. The eight performers had signed a contract
before they left Feds charge three Kansas City-area companies with labor
trafficking www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2009/05/25/daily15.html [accessed 8 January 2011] “This RICO indictment alleges an extensive
and profitable criminal enterprise in which hundreds of illegal aliens were
employed at hotels and other businesses across the country,” Whitworth said
in the release. “The defendants allegedly used false information to acquire
fraudulent work visas for these foreign nationals. Many of their employees
were allegedly victims of human trafficking who were coerced to work in
violation of the terms of their visa without proper pay and under the threat
of deportation. The defendants also required them to reside together in
crowded, substandard and overpriced apartments.” Many of the
workers were employed at hotels in the Child maids now being exported to US Associated Press AP, Dec-28-2008 www.zimbio.com/AP+News/articles/7537/Child+maids+now+being+exported [accessed 8 January 2011] Shyima was 10 when a wealthy Egyptian
couple brought her from a poor village in northern Once behind the walls of gated
communities like this one, these children never go to school. Unbeknownst to
their neighbors, they live as modern-day slaves, just like Shyima, whose story is pieced together through court
records, police transcripts and interviews. Shyima cried when she found out she was
going to She arrived at Young workers in the oldest profession - Clark County
girls make up a third of the underage sex workers in Portland Isolde Raftery,
The Columbian, December 6, 2008 -- Source: www.columbian.com/article/20081207/NEWS02/712079963 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3628 [accessed 8 January 2011] Sarah was 16 and addicted to crack
cocaine when she heard there was easy money to make in the parking lot of a
fast food restaurant off ‘SNITCHES DIE, YOU KNOW’ - “I can cite case after case of
girls coming from average families, and once the pimp was able to intervene,
the family didn’t matter anymore,” Dick said. “I know of officers’ daughters
who got into it, a federal prosecutor’s daughter, a DA’s daughter, a
politician’s daughter.” Cherise was a rebellious 15-year-old when she met her
first pimp, Deandre Green, at Forced labor operation busted Freeman Klopott, The Examiner,
11/24/08 washingtonexaminer.com/local/2008/11/forced-labor-operation-busted [accessed 9 January 2011] MAN ALLEGEDLY CONFISCATED THE
WOMEN’S PASSPORTS AND THREATENED TO KILL THEIR FAMILIES IF THEY LEFT For the past seven years, federal
authorities say, a Peruvian Nanny Exploited In Shocking ICE Case KTVU News, www.ktvu.com/news/18012707/detail.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Agent Welsh and ICE officials won't
speak specifically about Dann's case, but the
complaint alleges that in July 2006, Dann brought Zoraida Pena-Canal from Dann allegedly confiscated Pena's
passport and visa and physically and verbally abused the nanny, threatening
her with deportation if she talked to outsiders. The complaint alleges Dann smashed Pena's radio and a television set, to
prevent her from listening to Spanish language programs that would, quote
"put ideas in her head."
Investigators say Dann told Pena: "When
you come to the www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/October/08-crt-920.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Evidence presented at trial
demonstrated that The evidence established that
Paris "purchased" two of the victims from a co-defendant, Brian
Forbes, who previously pleaded guilty to five counts of sex trafficking and
was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in recruiting and exploiting
minors and vulnerable young women into prostitution, as well as using
beatings, rapes, drug withdrawal, threats and unlawful restraint, to compel
them to perform commercial sex acts. - htcp LAGON: Modern-day slavery Ambassador Mark P. Lagon,
Director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking
in Persons, The Washington Times, October 6, 2008 www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/06/modern-day-slavery/?page=1 [accessed 9 January 2011] A millionaire perfume maker in Imprisoned in the American Nightmare Ronnie Garrett, OFFICER.com, September 2008 www.officer.com/print/Law-Enforcement-Technology/Imprisoned-in-the-American-Nightmare/1$43295 [accessed 9 January 2011] Like many before her, she
immigrated to the But her dreams vanished as she
found herself living a nightmare — trapped in a house all day, barred from
speaking to anyone, and expected to work grueling hours until she collapsed
into bed at night. "When I'd
complain, they'd threaten me … and I feel so sad … because when I was in my
own country I used to work, I made friends," she says. "Now I come
here, I'm locked in the house, not talking to anyone, not going anywhere
…" Human trafficking victim speaks out in Aiken NBC News, Augusta,-September-15-2008 www.nbcaugusta.com/news/southcarolina/28434359.html [access date unavailable] Micheline Slattery talked about how at just
five she was forced into slavery in her native "It is really tough when you
have been programmed to believe you are worthless," she said. "I
was like, there had to be something different, something better than what I
was living. I decided I wasn't going to stay there anymore and ran
away." Now Slattery is a nurse
and when she can, she tells her story.
"I want the world to know that slavery is not history, it still
exists," she said. Brothers Plead Guilty to Enslaving Farmworkers
in www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/September/08-crt-770.html [accessed 9 January 2011] All five defendants pleaded guilty
to harboring undocumented foreign nationals for private financial gain and
identify theft. In addition, Cesar and Geovanni Navarrete pleaded guilty to beating, threatening,
restraining and locking workers in trucks to force them to work for them as
agricultural laborers. Cesar Navarrete also pleaded
guilty to re-entering the The defendants were accused of
paying the workers minimal wages, driving them into debt, while
simultaneously threatening physical harm if the workers left their employment
before their debts had been repaid to the family. Human trafficking in Amy Leigh Womack, macon.com, Jul. 29, 2008 www.macon.com/2008/07/29/416886/human-trafficking-in-macon-depends.html [accessed 9 January 2011] For one woman, human trafficking
began with an advertisement promising the opportunity to work in Probe: Diplomats abuse their workers, invoke immunity [DOC] Anthony M. Destefano, Newsday,
Jul 28, 2008 -- Source:
www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-nytraf285780386jul28,0,6438774.story [accessed 9 January 2011] Federal investigators have uncovered
numerous cases of foreign diplomats - mostly in Sex Slaves: From Kevin Rowson, 11 Alive, www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=118235&catid=3 [accessed 9 January 2011] The female victims were as young
as 14-years old. They expected a better life in An indictment says three of the
men -- 31-year old Juan Cortez-Meza, 34-year old Amador Cortez-Meza and
25-year old Francisco Cortez-Meza -- travelled to The indictment says "The
victims were beaten, threatened, or their families back in Indian workers' struggle shines light on human
trafficking, slave labor Sunil Freeman, Party for Socialism and Liberation PSL,
July 4, 2008 [accessed 9 January 2011] The plight of immigrant Indian
workers who were deceived into virtual slavery has brought attention to the
vile practice of human trafficking.
Indian workers protest slave-like conditions before the Department of
Justice, Modern slavery global scourge, speakers tell CBF
supporters Rachel Mehlhaff and Lee Ann
Marcel, Associated Baptist Press ABP, www.abpnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3368&Itemid=53 [accessed 9 January 2011] The woman came over from Researchers Issue Report on Human Trafficking Newswise, Northeastern University,
6/16/2008 www.newswise.com/articles/researchers-issue-report-on-human-trafficking [accessed 9 January 2011] A team of researchers at The report, entitled
“Understanding and Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Human Trafficking,”
was made possible by a grant from the National Institute of Justice and is
now available online … Full
Report [PDF] … Executive
Summary [PDF] Fulton judge, deputy son charged with human trafficking Appen Newspapers, [accessed 9 January 2011] A former The charges against the three
allege the Garretts later stopped paying the victim
for her work as a nanny, significantly curtailed her freedom and ability to
leave their home, and threatened to malign her to her family in In addition, the indictment
alleges that after the victim escaped, the Garretts
falsely accused her of theft to local authorities, reported her illegal
status to federal authorities and falsely accused her of engaging in
terrorism-related activities to the Department of Homeland Security. One woman who operates a shelter in northwest MO speaks
out Amelia Waters, Connect Tristates
News, 05.20.2008 www.connecttristates.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=136730 [accessed 9 January 2011] "We have dealt with many
cases where as the girls are brought in as mail-order brides, when they got
here basically they were used for prostitution and pornographic
purposes," said Cheryl Leffler, who operates a
women's shelter in northwest "They usually start with just
written correspondence with them, and after they have pretended to be the
perfect person they get the girls to trust them," said Leffler.
Traffickers promise the world to potential victims and pay for their
plane ticket to Grand Jury Indicts Human Trafficking Suspect WKYT 27 News, May 15, 2008 www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/18968409.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Police say Man Sentenced for Human Trafficking and Alien Smuggling www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/May/08-crt-406.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Corea lured young Central American women
to the Former Human Trafficking Victim Speaks Out KGMB CBS 9 News - May 3rd 2008 www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=5769&lang=ge [accessed 9 January 2011] Maka told Francis he would turn him
into immigration if he tried to escape the pig farm he stayed at. "He make me afraid of him. He hit me a
couple of times. yeah. metal frames, I get scars on my back from him. Get
guys they worse than me. He beat 'em up till blood
coming out their mouth and nose. it's very sad. We cannot do nothing. we so
scared of him," Francis said. Sentences given in human trafficking plot United Press International UPI, Houston, April 28, 2008 www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/04/28/Sentences-given-in-human-trafficking-plot/UPI-66051209440209/ [accessed 9 January 2011] Members of a human trafficking
ring have been sentenced for a conspiracy to smuggle Central American women
into the How an eastern Jennifer Hemmingsen, The
Gazette, April 20, 2008 [accessed 9 January 2011] In the basement of an
ordinary-looking 3 Arrested On Suspicion Of Human Trafficking The www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=23993 [accessed 9 January 2011] According to the complaints, the
victims were forced to work nearly 24 hours a day and were advised that it
would be necessary for them to work for several years while they repaid their
"travel debt." The victims
allegedly were threatened, and their passports were kept from them. Sex victim gives voice to problem T.J. Greaney, www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-15549979.html [partially accessed 9 January 2011 - access restricted] At 15, Theresa Flores was a
self-described "blond, white girl" from an upper-class Human trafficking steps from the shadows Barry Bergman, Public Affairs, UC Berkely
News: Berkeleyan, 12 March 2008 www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/03/12_trafficking.shtml [accessed 9 January 2011] Describing herself as "a nice
Catholic girl who lived in a large, suburban house" near Detroit during
her teenage years, she said she was targeted by traffickers, drugged, and
date-raped at the age of 15 - "I was just a kid," she said - and
then blackmailed and forced to work as a prostitute "for two long
years." "They said they would kill me
and my family and my dog if I didn't do what they said," reported Indian Workers Accuse Signal International Of "Human
Trafficking" Steve Phillips, WLOX ABC 13, www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=7977223 [accessed 9 January 2011] They talk of living "like
pigs in a cage" in a company-run "work camp." "I've been a guest worker all my life.
I've never seen these kinds of conditions," said the interpreter,
"We lived 24 people to a room. And for this, the company deducted $1,050
a month from our paychecks." Man Pleads Guilty In 'Kennel Case' Rape KPHO 5, www.kpho.com/news/15142425/detail.html [Last accessed 9 January 2011] The accused ringleader behind a
horrific 2005 kidnapping and rape case pleaded guilty on Friday to six
charges after admitting his role, Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas
said. The 15-year-old victim was
kidnapped, gang raped and during her 42-day captivity, forced to engage in
acts of prostitution, Thomas said. She was mostly confined to a dog kennel,
Thomas said. Website Content Calls for Action to Combat Human
Trafficking The blogs.covchurch.org/newswire/2008/01/25/6075/ [accessed 26 August 2011] That reality hit home for one Georgia Man Sentenced to 15 Years on Sex Trafficking and
Mann Act Charges www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/January/08_crt_058.html [accessed 9 January 2011] "Defendant Jones' sentence
sends a clear message that those who traffic in people will be harshly
punished," said U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias. "Defendant Jones preyed on numerous
young American women who fell for his fraudulent 'modeling' scheme, signed
contracts in which they owed the defendant money, then were forced and
coerced into prostitution to pay back the contracts. The case broke when two
victims were brave enough to come forward and report Jones' crimes to APD,
whose human trafficking task force worked closely with the FBI in bringing
justice to the victims." Numerous victims were on hand for
the sentencing and testified that Jones caused them to engage in sex acts,
including oral sex and vaginal intercourse, with himself and others, by
striking them and threatening to beat them. One victim submitted her
statement to the court, outlining the abuse she suffered at the hands of
Jones and stating that Jones was "a cruel and manipulative man whose
life revolved around the sexual,emotional, physical
and psychological exploitation of young women." She stated that her life
was devastated and that she even considered suicide on more than one occasion
to escape Jones' brutality. Brothel/human trafficking operation discovered in Tumon [ Mindy Aguon, KUAM News, January
13, 2008 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 September 2011] [scroll down] Officers went to the Blue Room in Three get max sentences for roles in human trafficking
ring Brian Donohue, The Star-Ledger, January 04, 2008 www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2008/01/three_get_max_sentences_for_ro.html [accessed 9 January 2011] A federal judge in The Rosales-Martinez sisters
admitted they helped oversee dozens of illegal Hondurans who were forced to
work six days a week and live in cramped A WKYT 27 News, Dec 13, 2007 www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/12456971.html [accessed 9 January 2011] 45-year-old Calvin Walker was
arrested yesterday morning at the The women say he lured them here
from Four Accused Of Human Trafficking, Prostitution WBEN 930, December 11, 2007 – Source: www.wben.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=08937 www.prostitutionsucks.com/?p=6723 [accessed 9 January 2011] Federal agents conducted early
morning raids at four massage parlors and accupressure
locations the government says were fronts for prostitution and human
trafficking. U.S. Attorney Terry Flynn
says the four suspects charged large amounts of money to women in Asia who
wanted to come to the Human trafficking more common in Ca. Nannette Miranda, KGO-TV/DT, Dec. 4, 2007 abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/state&id=5814341 [accessed 9 January 2011] Sex slaves, human trafficking ... in Grace Kahng, TODAYshow.com
contributor, 12/3/2007 today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22083762 [accessed 9 January 2011] In spring of 2004, Katya (not her real name), like thousands of other
foreign exchange university students, was looking forward to the summer job
placement that she and a friend had received in “When we got to the hotel in Georgia Wrestler Forced Women In Sexual Servitude News Channel 9, www.newschannel9.com/news/norris-964652-women-victims.html [accessed 9 January 2011] In addition to forcing the victims
to work as prostitutes, Norris made the women work in and around his two
homes in Cartersville. Witnesses testified that Norris required the victims
to haul trees, lay sod, and paint. The evidence at trial further established
that Norris set strict rules and fined the women for such infractions as
talking too much or failing to exercise. In addition, he kept the women
financially indebted to him by charging them for food, medicine, and
cigarettes. Norris then told the victims that they could not leave until
their debts were paid, all the while continuing to increase the debt he
claimed he was owed. Human trafficking often below radar in Columbus John Futty, The [accessed 9 January 2011 – access may now be restricted] Human-trafficking cases in "In four of the five
labor-trafficking cases, service providers indicated that, although they knew
whom in law enforcement to contact about trafficking victims, they could not
take the chance that the disclosure could lead to negative consequences for
their clients," researchers wrote in their report, released last month. Language barriers and the fear of arrest
and deportation were among the reasons that human-trafficking cases go
unreported, the study found. "For
the undocumented, the overriding concern is about immigration status,"
said Angie Plummer, executive director of the Community Refugee and Immigration
Service, one of the groups interviewed by researchers. "There is a reluctance to present
victims to officials who have the right and ability to turn them over to
(Immigration and Customs Enforcement)." Human Trafficking a Big Problem in humantrafficking.org -- Adapted from: Matthew Schwartz,
"Human Trafficking." Action news.com. 11 Nov 2007 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/809 [accessed 9 January 2011] "Sue" says she ran away
from a foster home at 13. She met a man in his 40's who promised her free
rent, meals and a job. After a few months, "Sue" says things
changed, drastically. "He
started beating me with sticks, poles, knives, hammers. It really got out of
control. So besides fighting the street you had to fight this non-human. i was told,
if we left, he was gonna hunt us down, and, you
know, kill us." "Sara" says the
traffickers who held her poured gasoline on her while they held a match.
"They kicked and stomped on me. They dragged me by the hair. Fifteen
guys circled me and stomped on me." Ukraine woman forced to dance at strip club testifies in
D.C. Todd Spangler, Free Press forum.ukietv.com/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=2129&#msg_2129 [accessed 9 January 2011] Lured from the Susan Carroll, www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5251655.html [accessed 9 January 2011] The picture, with its implicit
threat, was all it took. It was taken
just before Christmas 2004. She had been thinking about running away from the
windowless bar on But Maximino
"Chimino" Mondragon
knew of her plans. Carrying a camera
and Christmas presents for the woman's daughter, he had appeared unannounced
at her family's home in With similar threats, Mondragon and a network of family members and associates
operated one of the largest human trafficking rings in Slavery in my backyard and a thousand points of light RINF Alternative News, 22nd October 2007 rinf.com/alt-news/latest-news/slavery-in-my-backyard-and-a-thousand-points-of-light/1538/ [accessed 9 January 2011] (At the lecture) Coonan also said that it’s
happening within the Chinese community as well, with traffickers promising
young women a better life in “I think the most shocking thing
is that everything is close to home,” said Danielle May, who attended the
lecture. “This is not something that you see on the international news being
in Md. Cracks Down On Human Trafficking wjz.com/seenon/human.trafficking.training.2.430916.html [access date unavailable] One who escaped told her story
with the condition that she not be identified. "We were kept in one room, me and my
daughters," said the woman. Their
passports taken, her children were forced to work in the home without pay
while she worked on the outside.
"We've had a number of significant cases in the A Modern Slavery Aubrey Fox, www.gothamgazette.com/article/crime/20071001/4/2304 [accessed 9 January 2011] It took 12 years for Martina Okeke to break free. After moving from In June 2001, two Indonesian
women, who paid $3,000 each for a falsified visa, airline tickets from Charles Duncan, Independent Weekly (INDY WEEK), September
26, 2007 www.indyweek.com/indyweek/carys-neo-china-accused-of-human-trafficking/Content?oid=1204142 [accessed 9 January 2011] According to a lawsuit filed in
Wake County court, Neo-China's parent company, Freshco
Inc., sponsored Amu Zheng
and his wife and son to come to the United States in 2001. Under immigration
law, employers can sponsor someone for a green card if they can offer a
full-time position. Once in the country, Zheng
alleges, Neo-China's owner Diana Yu and manager Chris Chang told Zheng and his family that they had to work at the
restaurant "at whatever terms they imposed"—more than 90 hours a
week at less than minimum wage. Human Trafficking: A Million-Dollar Industry In Destin Patrick Donohue, The Destin Log ( www.thedestinlog.com/news/human-192-victims-traffi.html [accessed 9 January 2011] She was 19, petite and
brunette. She was from Eastern Europe and had been in the Men sentenced to jail for trafficking juvenile Associated Press AP, archive.showmenews.com/2007/Sep/20070915News009.asp [accessed 9 January 2011] According to statements made in
court, Geiler took the girl to Gray’s house in
January. He told Gray the girl owed him money, and he wanted to leave her
with Gray so she could work as a prostitute to pay off her debt. Three charged in hair salon human trafficking ring Brian Donohue, The Star-Ledger, September 06, 2007 blog.nj.com/ledgerupdates/2007/09/three_charged_in_human_traffic.html [accessed 10 January 2011] The women lived in crowded
apartments rented by the alleged ringleaders in Man Pleads Guilty as Trial is About to Begin on Federal
Sex Trafficking and Mann Act Charges [PDF] U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney David E. Nahmias, Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga, 08/28/07 www.justice.gov/usao/gan/press/2007/08-28-07c.pdf [accessed 10 January 2011] Wan J. Kim, Assistant Attorney
General for Civil Rights; David E. Nahmias, United States Attorney for the
Northern District of Georgia; Gregory Jones, Special Agent in Charge, Federal
Bureau of Investigation; and Richard Pennington, Chief, Atlanta Police
Department, today announced that Jimmie Lee Jones, also known as "Mike
Spade," 31, of Stone Mountain, Georgia, pleaded guilty yesterday to
federal charges of conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking and transporting
young women across state lines for purposes of prostitution. Just after his trial began, Jones admitted
to U.S. District Court Judge William S. Duffey, Jr.
that he had lured and coerced eight young women -- including two juveniles --
into prostitution. "The defendant in this case
took advantage of numerous young women by enticing them with promises of
modeling contracts and then using force, threats, and coercion to force them
to work as prostitutes," said Assistant Attorney General Wan J. Kim. AMW Fugitive Data File For Maribel
Rodriguez Vasquez www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=47952 [accessed 10 January 2011] [scroll down] BOGUS JOB OFFER ENTICES GUATEMALAN
GIRL TO RP diplomat: No human trafficking in case filed by maid Veronica Uy, Inquirer.net, [accessed 10 January 2011] According to the Associated Press,
under the plea, Reyes must pay Gado about $78,000
to make up the difference between what she was paid and what she was supposed
to get under her contract. Gado had claimed she was promised $8 per hour for a
40-hour workweek and $12 an hour for overtime, but was paid $250 a month, pay
that was increased to $325 in July 2006 when she was required to begin caring
for the Reyeses’ infant granddaughter. 'Slave trade' growth prompts action in FW Aug 16, 2007 www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/081707kvueslavetrade-eh.4247b468.html [access date unavailable] The International Chiefs of Police
Association delves into the secret world of human trafficking; and one
officer has managed to breach te walls and delve
into that world. He is one of few who work in the new Fort Worth Anti-Human
Trafficking Division. "You can buy a human being
out on the street for $90 and put him to work as a slave," the
undercover said. Women, men, boys and
girls are forced into prostitution. Some can end up having sex with different
men every 15 minutes while others are purchased to work on farms or
restaurants for little to no money. "Some of them are put to
sleep in garages," the officer said. "They're locked up in closets.
They're being fed very minimal. Especially, the females are being verbally
abused, physically abused." US hands Lithuanian 7-year-sentence for human trafficking Agence France-Presse
AFP, 17 Aug 2007 www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=070817225536.yqrm0puc&show_article=1&cat=0 [accessed 10 January 2011] Michail Aronov,
34, and his business partners "smuggled women into the "These criminals preyed upon the
hopes and dreams of women who came to the Breitbart.com, Jan 28, 2008 www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1961620/posts [accessed 10 January 2011] Christian Medical Association Doctors: Standard www.standardnewswire.com/news/303031411.html [accessed 10 January 2011] Highlighting a just-published
study showing that sex slaves spread AIDS even after their rescue from human
trafficking overlords and pimps, the nation's largest faith-based association
of doctors today called for more concerted Dr. Barrows said, "Health
officials have just begun to recognize this link, and stronger emphasis is
needed. Interventions aimed at eradicating sex trafficking, rescuing and
restoring sex-trafficked victims, and preventing future sex trafficking need
to be a more strongly emphasized strategy in the President's Emergency Plan
for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other AIDS-related programs. Anti-trafficking
measures should be specifically and consistently emphasized in AIDS-related
grant stipulations and proposal evaluations." Enslaved in the Donna M. Hughes, National Review Online, July 30, 2007 www.nationalreview.com/articles/221700/enslaved-u-s/donna-m-hughes [accessed 10 January 2011] President Bush made combating
human trafficking a priority. Both Attorney Generals
Ashcroft and Gonzales have spoken out against trafficking in the Company in humantrafficking.org, August 05, 2007 -- Adapted from:
"Company Accused Of Human Trafficking" www.kdka.com. 16 July 2007 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/669 [accessed 10 January 2011] Workers from Venture into an abandoned
limestone mine in "We made multiple phone calls
to the president of the company who then chose not to return any of my calls
or emails and the gentlemen just weren't getting paid," Domenic Galassi, an official with Creekside
Mushroom, said. And Galassi says their situation has become even more dire.
He says each man paid upwards of $20,000 to a recruiter in 3 Arrested in Human Trafficking FBI, Jul 3, 2007 presszoom.com/story_135926.html [accessed 10 January 2011] Some factors taken into
consideration to file criminal charges against these individuals included
allegations of victims receiving rationed meals of limited quantity, the
acrobat performers not being paid the salary they were promised, their
passports and work visas being held from them, enforcers watching and
controlling the movements of the performers, and a fear of the performers
that their families in China, as well as themselves, would be harmed if they
attempted to leave. [accessed 10 January 2011] The evidence at trial showed that
during the first two weeks of May 2005, Doss conspired with his wife, Jacquay Quinn Ford, to transport two girls across state
lines to work as prostitutes. Doss and Ford transported the victims -- one 14
and one 16 -- from Mark Sayre, Investigative Reporter, KLAS-TV 8 News Now [accessed 10 January 2011] On Friday, the FBI and Metro
descended near Desert Inn and State struggles with legal, moral aspects of human
trafficking Brian J. Lowney, Catholic News
Service, www.catholic.org/national/national_story.php?id=24490 [accessed 10 January 2011] "I saw the victims in the
brothels," said state Rep. Joanne Giannini, recalling
that many of the prostitutes were minors. "A lot of people think that it
doesn't exist." Giannini said when police have raided these facilities
the women refused emergency social and medical services. "They are
afraid of getting into trouble," she said. According to Garry Bliss, director
of policy and legislative affairs for Providence Mayor David N. Cicilline, efforts have been made to provide counseling
and social services to the women, but they rejected them, fearing retribution
from their captors – the owners of the establishments who reap big profits. He believes most of the women to
be in their 20s or 30s, and said some have probably been in this country for
some time, being moved constantly from state to state. They are initially
enslaved to pay off debts incurred in traveling to the Middle John Bowman, For The Tennessean Advertisement, 6/22/2007 www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1185511 [accessed 10 January 2011] GIRLS LURED INTO SEX TRADE - As a result of November's
arrests, Perfecto admitted she knew all
along that the girls, who were 13 and 17, would be coerced to engage in
prostitution in brothels in Woman Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking Related Charges The www.humantrafficking.org/updates/681 [accessed 10 January 2011] Olga Mondragon
is a 47-year-old El Salvadoran national.
She and her co-defendants conspired with others to smuggle female
illegal aliens from Central America to Falling Short of the Mark: An International Study on the
Treatment of Human Trafficking Victims [PDF] The Future Group, March 2006 www.oas.org/atip/canada/Fallingshortofthemark.pdf [accessed 10 January 2011] UNITED STATES - The RESIDENCE - Under the Trafficking Victims Protection
Act (.TVPA.)78 and Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act
(.TVPRA.),79 the U.S. Department of Homeland Security may issue .T-Visas. to
allow victims of .severe forms of human trafficking. To remain in the country
in order to provide assistance in federal investigations and prosecutions of
those responsible for the harm they have suffered. After three years of
having T-Visa status, victims may apply for permanent residency. Victims may,
in some cases, also apply for non-immigrant status for their spouses and
children; or, in the case of victims under 21 years old, their parents. Details emerge in human trafficking case in San Antonio [PDF] Guillermo Contreras, Express-News online, 06/02/2007 www.madebysurvivors.com/nl/san.pdf [accessed 6 December 2010] How's $600 to buy what you'd like
simply for accompanying men on trips? We can make it happen, al otro lado — on the other
side. That pitch allegedly made by a
trio of women sounded like gold to some impressionable teens and a young
woman not making much in But rather than the glitz they
were promised, they were sold in an underground world for prostitution,
according to prosecutors and documents filed in federal court Friday. The girls were delivered to a man in Laws Block Trafficking; Sexual Terror Ignored Alison Bowen and Nouhad Moawad, Women's eNews, 05/26/07 womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/3182/context/archive [Last access date unavailable] The report found that half of all
states' laws now make trafficking a felony, nine
state laws provide restitution to victims and 11 states enacted laws
providing for victim protection. Many Midwestern states, including Report Card on State Action to Combat International
Trafficking
[PDF] Center For Women Policy Studies, www.centerwomenpolicy.org/documents/ReportCardonStateActiontoCombatInternationalTrafficking.pdf [accessed 10 January 2011] Each state therefore received five
letter grades, one for each type of law — criminalization, victim protection
and services, statewide interagency task force, regulation of international
marriage brokers, and regulation of travel service providers that promote sex
tourism. Each state’s individual report card includes a brief analysis of the
state’s legislation and includes recommendations for improvements. Fourth Chinese National Pleads Guilty to
Trafficking-Related Charge www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2007/May/07_crt_380.html [accessed 10 January 2011] Each defendant acknowledged in his
or her plea having a role in recruiting and arranging travel and immigration
documents for Chinese females to travel to Beatings, Isolation and Fear: The Life of a Slave in the Pierre Thomas, Jack Date and Theresa Cook, ABC News, May
21, 2007 abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3190006&page=1 [accessed 10 January 2011] Evelyn Chumbow
was once a slave, but not in some distant country. She worked right here in
the Wealthy N.Y. Couple Charged With Slavery Frank Eltman, Associated Press
AP, Garden City, NY, May 23, 2007 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/23/AR2007052301067.html?tid=informbox [accessed 10 January 2011] The women, prosecutors said, were
subjected to beatings, had scalding water thrown on them and were forced to
repeatedly climb up stairs as punishment for perceived misdeeds. In one case,
prosecutors said, one of the women was forced to eat 25 hot chili peppers at
one time. One of the women also told
authorities they were forced to sleep on mats in the kitchen and were fed so
little, they had to steal food. The women legally arrived in the Human Trafficking on humantrafficking.org, May 17, 2007 -- Adapted from: Carrie Mason-Draffen.
"Target of federal task force." Newsday. 16 May 2007 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/635 [accessed 10 January 2011] The Long Island group was born in
the fall of 2004, just months after the arrests of a couple on Mariluz Zavala and her husband, Jose
Ibanez, later pleaded guilty to smuggling 69 fellow Peruvian immigrants and
enslaving them in Amityville, Most Wanted Women: Human Trafficking Mastermind April 30, 2007 [accessed 10 January 2011] The Federal Bureau of
Investigations says this Guatemalan national lured
twelve women -- three mere minors -- with the promise of the American
dream. "What they would do is go
to these countries to the rural areas and recruit women with the promise here
and making good money." After
crossing the border, promised dreams quickly turned in to nightmares as the
victims were forced into street prostitution to work off their smuggling fee. "Often times they were
physically abused if they tried to leave they were beaten up." Trafficking victims spurn help Jose Cardenas, www.sptimes.com/2007/04/15/Northpinellas/Trafficking_victims_s.shtml [accessed 10 January 2011] But local investigators are
finding that victims of human trafficking don't surface easily. In the six months since World
Relief got a $450,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to help
survivors in the region, none have been found. Human trafficking called a concern for N. Texas Tod Robberson,
The www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-161871107.html [partially accessed 26 August 2011 - access restricted] Given Kachepa,
20, of Regardless of sickness or fatigue,
they were required to perform up to seven concerts a day, with no payment. "If we did not sing, the
choir manager would say, 'No singing, no food,' and he would turn off the gas
for the stove so we couldn't cook," Mr. Kachepa
said. "Sometimes we went for three days without having anything to
eat." Modern day slave trade: Human trafficking continues, even
in the U.S. www.liberty.edu/academics/communications/champion/index.cfm?PID=10609&CAID=212 [access date unavailable] According to a report published on
the Central Intelligence Agency Web site, “International Trafficking in Women
to the Modern-Day Slavery in Russell Goldman, ABC News, March 26, 2007 abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=5152335 [accessed 26 August 2011] Yes, There Are Slaves in the Emily Nicely, 19, was routinely
beaten with broom handles, a metal pipe, belts and wooden boards. She was forced to quit school, to do chores
and deliver newspapers without pay. She was by any definition - including
those of the federal government and the family that held her captive for six
months - a slave. Man charged with human trafficking Amber Mobley, www.sptimes.com/2007/03/16/Hillsborough/Man_charged_with_huma.shtml [accessed 10 January 2011] Carter said human trafficking
"is something that is coming to our attention more due to the fact that
we have a growing diverse population within State mobilizes to fight human trafficking Bruce Finley, [accessed 10 January 2011] The problem: Trafficking has proved
hard to detect. Victims typically fear retribution and clam up, experts say.
Unlike smuggling, trafficking involves confiscation of travel documents and
other coercion. The U.S. State
Department estimates 14,500 to 17,500 foreign workers are brought into the
country each year via trafficking - part of a $9 billion global criminal
trade exceeded only by illegal arms and drug dealing. The victims of human trafficking www.khou.com/news/local/houstonmetro/stories/khou070227_ac_humantrafficking.15d0ee5.html [access information unavailable] “I felt more like a slave,” he
told 11 News in Spanish. While often
invisible, the stories are strikingly similar. “They were making sure I was so scared so
that I wouldn’t walk out, or immigration would come get me. “It was really hard for more it was tiring
my feet had blisters,” Diego said. At just 14, Diego journeyed alone
from WJZ Investigates Sex Trafficking Vic Carter, WJZ-Baltimore, CBS Broadcasting, Feb 23, 2007 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] 19-year-old Chantee
was hanging out with two friends in downtown Human trafficking and slavery still active practices Sara Kincaid, www.bismarcktribune.com/news/local/article_50f3e445-6e70-50de-90fa-becc1695ceb4.html [accessed 10 January 2011] People can be sold repeatedly,
Atkinson said. This creates a tier of markets and prices, based on how worn a
person has become in the sex or labor trade, he said. In the sex trade,
people get sold overseas when they reach the lower prices. “From there, they die and never come back,”
he said. Human Trafficking Plaguing Vic Carter, WJZ-Baltimore, CBS Broadcasting, Feb 21, 2007 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Lidia and her daughters came to Human Trafficking Victims May be Hidden in Plain Sight Kate Ryan, WTOP Radio, www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=1066983 [accessed 11 January 2011] They are kidnapped, branded and
forced into prostitution. Or they are lured from their home countries to the Man pleads guilty to smuggling women for prostitution in
brothel ring Associated Press AP, www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-02-10-immigrant-brothel_x.htm [accessed 11 January 2011] The ringleaders sneaked hundreds
of women into the Lawsuit accuses John Christoffersen, Associated
Press AP, February 8th, 2007 www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14351 [accessed 11 January 2011] A dozen Guatemalan workers filed a
federal lawsuit Thursday accusing one of the nation's largest nurseries of
engaging in human trafficking by forcing them to work nearly 80 hours per
week, paying them less than minimum wage and denying them medical care for
injuries on the job. The workers, who filed the lawsuit
against Imperial Nurseries in "These workers came here
lawfully to earn a living and support their families," said Nicole Hallett, a Terry Frieden, Cable News
Network CNN, www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/01/us.human.trafficking/ [accessed 11 January 2011] A senior U.S. Justice Department
official estimated about 15,000 victims of human trafficking arrive in the
United States annually, some as young as 9 years old, destined for jobs in
brothels, as unpaid domestic servants, or in other jobs as virtual slaves. The victims represent a source of
continuing income for the rings that provide them, making human trafficking
more attractive than drug smuggling to some criminal syndicates, authorities
said. Tall Americano, Hold the Paycheck Sarah Stuteville, co-founder of
The Common Language Project, Seattle Weekly News, Jan 31 2007 www.seattleweekly.com/2007-01-31/news/tall-americano-hold-the-paycheck.php/ [accessed 11 January 2011] A When Abdenasser
"Sammy" Ennassime returned home to visit
his family in Woman Pleads Guilty to Forcing Juvenile Girls Into Prostitution
In [accessed 11 January 2011] At her plea hearing, Perfecto
admitted that she told the girls, who were 13 and 17 years of age at the time,
that they would be employed at a restaurant in Legislation targets human trafficking in state Gordon Fraser, Eagle-Tribune, January 14, 2007 -- Sources:
[accessed 11 January 2011] Bradley and O'Dell, of Litchfield,
were convicted in 2003 of forcing four Jamaican men to work for their
tree-cutting business. The men lived in unsanitary and unsafe conditions, and
received no pay for their work, according to Zuckerman. Both Bradley and
O'Dell were sentenced to five years, 10 months in prison. The slaves of New York Errol Louis, Columnist, NY Daily News, January 14, 2007 www.makewaypartners.org/TheSlavesofNY.htm [accessed 11 January 2011] "Pimps promise to smuggle the
impressionable girls into the Human trafficking is 'alive and well' in Maura Possley, www.smfws.com/articles2007/januaryfebruarymarch2007/art01142007.htm [accessed 11 January 2011] Human trafficking most commonly is
found in the sex trade, but also plagues the lives of farmworkers,
domestic servants and hotel and restaurant workers. The $10 billion annual revenue generated
through human trafficking, Colletti said, can start
like it did for a Chinese girl, "Maria." Maria is not her name but is a
documented example of trafficking. She was sold in New Yorkers Draw Attention to Human Trafficking Marianne McCune, WNYC News, www.wnyc.org/articles/wnyc-news/2007/jan/11/new-yorkers-draw-attention-to-human-trafficking/ [accessed 11 January 2011] REPORTER: Human trafficking is a crime,
but there's no state law against it - only federal authorities can go after
the people who force women to prostitute themselves. But federal prosecutors don't
have the resources to go after low profile, smaller-scale traffickers, so
Jane Manning of Equality Now says it's outrageous that MANNING: There are traffickers all over
NYC getting way with it. REPORTER: Thais Receive Compensation and Visas in humantrafficking.org, April 04, 2007 -- Adapted from: Gred Risling. "Thai workers get money, visas in LA
human trafficking settlement." Mercury News. 8 December 2006 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/575 [accessed 11 January 2011] Ten people were hired to work on
the Officials decry trafficking of women for sex W. Zachary Malinowski, The www.projo.com/news/content/RITRAFFIC29_11-29-06_LA33A8H.3390007.html [accessed 11 January 2011] “They work from the time they get
up til the time they go to bed,” he said. “They
don’t go home at night.” Feds raid human trafficking ring Rocky Mountain News, November 22, 2006 www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_5162125,00.html [Last access date unavailable] Citing unnamed law enforcement
sources, CBS 4 News said the raid disrupted the ring that allegedly has
imported hundreds of Korean women into the The women were charged up to
$18,000 to get into the country, according to CBS 4 News reporter Brian Maass. The station reported dozens of the
women were working throughout the metro area, advertising on adult Web sites
and through word of mouth. Human trafficking cases increase in El Paso Louie Gilot, Libertas,
November 12, 2006 libertasuiuc.blogspot.com/2006/11/human-trafficking-cases-increase-in-el_12.html [accessed 8 January 2011] Gardes showed the photograph of a field
worker standing on top of a large farm truck -- a scene common across the
Southwest. His name is Ricardo, she said. He was smuggled across the border
in Human Trafficking Charges Filed The www.nysun.com/new-york/human-trafficking-charges-filed/42748/ [accessed 11 January 2011] The immigrants were charged
between $13,000 and $19,500. Those who failed to repay their smuggling debts
were physically threatened, a federal prosecutor, Winston Chan, said
yesterday at the arraignment. In one
instance, a defendant, Oktavian Kupchanko,
said he would have the wife and daughters of one of the immigrants raped
because the immigrant was behind on his debts, according to a court papers
filed by prosecutors. Human trafficking focus of workshop bangordailynews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=142413&zoneid=500 [access date unavailable] Part of the problem has been that
those smuggled into this country, whether on promises of a better life, other
false pretenses or coercion, have largely been treated as criminals
themselves, he said. The victims have faced prostitution charges and in the
case of them being here illegally, face deportation back to their own country
where living conditions could be equally bad or worse. The image of the victim as
criminal seems to be changing, largely prompted by a federal law change in 2000
that Gilbert said establishes provisions for treating the victims as
refugees. The provisions include the possibility of a special trafficking
visa and the prospects of housing and employment assistance and medical and
mental health services, if needed. The idea is to take a new approach
to an old problem by bringing in social services and law enforcement on the
ground level, identifying indicators of possible trafficking so that the
traffickers can be caught and those that they smuggled in can be helped. Human Trafficking in Susan Gaertner, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Minnesota social service groups
have assisted up to 500 sex trafficking victims and 55 labor trafficking
victims in the past three years, according to results of a study issued last
month by the state Department of Public Safety and reported in the Sept. 16
Star Tribune. The study confirms my experience as a prosecutor that human
trafficking is a much bigger issue than had been imagined in our state. Trafficking victims may be
desperately poor, dependent on drugs, in a country illegally, or just a kid
running away from home. Whatever the vulnerabilities, traffickers create
situations in which their victims are nearly powerless -- from beating, raping
and starving them, to hooking them on drugs, to taking away their passports
or other documents and threatening to deport them. Federal human trafficking bust implicates downtown
establishment Jennifer Park, The Brown Daily Herald, April 26, 2007 [accessed 26 August 2011] Many of the women who were brought
to the Woman
Gets 10 Years For Human Trafficking Anthony M. Destefano, Newsday,
9/29/06 www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1711248/posts [accessed 11 January 2011] A tearful woman was
sentenced to just over 10 years in federal prison Friday for her role in a
human trafficking operation that enticed women from Korea to come to the U.S.
to work as hostesses at a Flushing bar. Anti-Human Trafficking Law Helps Workers But Many Still
Afraid Associated Press AP, www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/news-article.aspx?storyid=65647 [Last accessed 11 January 2011] Advocates say the public is
increasingly aware of the plight of young girls kidnapped or tricked into
working in brothels. They say, however, that too often the cases of farm
workers forced to work off ballooning smuggling debts through fraud or
coercion are shrugged off as part of the illegal immigration issue. Officials name sex slave suspect Gil Brady, trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_85e04b9c-c610-5c5d-9aa0-1f85e735d265.html [accessed 11 January 2011] Investigators say the girl, who
was 13 years old at the time, told a teenage girlfriend, also alleged to have
been smuggled and forced to have sex for money with many men here, of her
plan to escape to Mexico. Affidavits say the friend informed one or both of
their captors, a reportedly 32-year-old 5 Charged In Alleged Human Trafficking Scheme www.kmbc.com/news/9888106/detail.html [accessed 11 January 2011] Authorities said that the victims
thought they had signed up for a student-work program, where they could earn
as much as $10,000 over the summer. Instead, they allegedly worked 13-hour
days, seven days a week. One student earned what amounted to 87 cents an
hour. In addition, investigators said
that eight of them shared two, one-bedroom apartments that had a television
and a mattress. "The defendants
cut the students off from nearly all forms of communication -- no telephone,
no Internet," Schlozman said. Investigators said the students were also
told their movements were being tracked by a global positioning system
device. Don’t sweep human trafficking under the rug Editorial, September 15, 2006 www.jweekly.com/article/full/30364/don-t-sweep-human-trafficking-under-the-rug/ [accessed 11 January 2011] Media coverage of human trafficking
has alternated between the polar extremes of nonexistence and hysteria — a
New York Times Magazine story in 2004, for example, referred to an “epidemic”
of trafficking and published numbers that, in retrospect, seem grossly
inflated. The irresponsible use of the word
“epidemic,” a hallmark of trend journalism, takes the emphasis away from
where it should be. The issue isn’t the statistically dubious claim that
human trafficking and sexual servitude are swelling uncontrollably in the Fear-mongering and hysteria are
not helpful. What is helpful is the approach taken by the D.A.’s office and
Jewish Coalition: Find a way to get these women away from their captors and
set aside money for such programs — as new state laws do — while
energetically prosecuting human traffickers. Human trafficking investigated in American Samoa Radio New www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=26684 [accessed 11 January 2011] Court affidavits filed in the
government’s case against two Chinese nationals believed to be a the forefront of the prostitution ring indicate that
young Chinese women were promised jobs at a store. They instead were forced in to
prostitution. Human trafficking is the new face of slavery in America Malea Hargett,
Editor, www.arkansas-catholic.org/article.php?id=629 [accessed 11 January 2011] In Anti-trafficking expert teaches training course Janine Zeitlin, www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/aug/18/antitrafficking_expert_teaches_training_course/?local_news [accessed 11 January 2011] Another emerging problem in the
human trafficking world is gangs, he said. 5 D.C. Spas Raided In Human-Trafficking Case nbc4.com & Associated Press AP, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] [scroll down] Authorities have 31 people in
custody and more than 70 suspected Korean sex slaves were freed.
Investigators said the suspects smuggled Korean women through Seen, but not heard Miriam business.highbeam.com/437285/article-1G1-149150547/seen-but-not-heard [Last accessed 11 January 2011] At the recent sentencing hearing of
Mi Na Malcolm, the madam's victims — women who worked as prostitutes at
Dallas brothels — finally had the chance to tell a federal judge about their
horrific experiences since coming to the United States. Yet they did not speak. Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah
Saldana recalls that the four women, who had worked in this country without
proper documentation, told her they were too afraid to talk in the Immigrant sisters admit charges in human trafficking John P. Martin, Star-Ledger Staff, August 04, 2006 www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=36803&view=previous [accessed 11 January 2011] Two Honduran sisters admitted
yesterday that they helped smuggle dozens of illegal female immigrants --
some as young as 14 -- into the United States, then forced them to live
together and work at North Jersey bars. The admissions by Noris Elvira and Ana Luz Rosales-Martinez, during a
federal court hearing in Under questioning from
prosecutors, the women said they helped oversee dozens of illegal Hondurans
who were forced to work six days a week and live in cramped The immigrants earned $5 an hour,
plus tips, by dancing and drinking with male patrons at bars in Woman sentenced to 10 years in human trafficking case Associated Press AP Worldstream,
www.utopiaguide.com/forums/showpost.php?s=ef470286c9c9d6c0c5236463ab3397b1&p=582023&postcount=13 [accessed 11 January 2011] A Korean woman who admitted making
illegal immigrant women pay off their smuggling debt through prostitution was
sentenced today in 3 men sentenced for roles in bar prostitution ring Harvey Rice, business.highbeam.com/5874/article-1G1-148316461/3-men-sentenced-roles-bar-prostitution-ring [partially accessed 11 January 2011 - access restricted] Two members of a ring that
smuggled Central and South American women into the Assistant U.S. Attorney Ruben
Perez said the case is evidence of a major shift toward more aggressive
investigation and prosecution of human trafficking cases since the formation
of the alliance of law enforcement agencies and nongovernmental organizations
that work with victims. What is FREE? f.r.e.e.-international www.free-international.org/about.html [accessed 11 January 2011] Human Trafficking Federal News Radio, 1500 AM, July 12, 2006 www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=29&sid=847080 [accessed 11 January 2011] In June 2004, Senzatimore's
group initiated an investigation into a suspected trafficking organization
operating out of Thanks to their work, the
trafficking ring has been dismantled, the leader of this effort is behind
bars, and more than 80 people, including several children, have been freed
from this modern-day slavery. Defense Department Combats Human Trafficking Steven Donald Smith, American Forces Press Service, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Trafficking in persons is a
commercial trade where human beings are subjected to involuntary acts such as
prostitution or indentured servitude, which many feel constitutes a modern
form of slavery. Force, fraud and coercion are methods used by traffickers to
obtain and recruit persons. McGinn said the Defense Department is focused on two
areas: the overseas sex exploitation industry near McGinn said the department is concerned
about trafficking in persons for labor purposes, and stressed that it is
important that defense contractors overseas do not take advantage of
trafficked labor. The human
trafficking rule contained in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation
gives the overseas commander the contract management tools necessary to hold contractors
accountable for their labor practices and their employees' actions, she said. Pipeline to Peril Cam Simpson, www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-nepal-specialpackage,0,7162366.special [accessed 11 January 2011] American tax dollars and the
wartime needs of the Conference Held on Human Trafficking Reported by Angela An, ONN-TV News, Jun 20 2006 www.onntv.com/live/contentbe/EPIC_shim.php?story=10tv/content/pool/200606/216170827.html [Last accessed 11 January 2011] Tina Frundt
with the Polaris Project says, You get tired of every day and living, you get
tired of someone beating you every day, you get tired of sleeping with twenty
to thirty men every day, you get tired and you hit rock bottom. Frundt was only 14 when a man in Human Trafficking In Jack Fink Reporting, CBS 11 News, Jun 12, 2006 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] The changes also acknowledged they
held women against their will at their $330,000 Coppell house. The couple
watched them closely with video surveillance cameras at their house and
business and had employees guard the exits.
Federal agents arrested the Changs in April
of last year after one of the five women being held inside the house managed
to escape. Prosecutors say she jumped out of a second floor window. Coalition to battle human trafficking Saundra Amrhein, www.sptimes.com/2006/06/09/State/Coalition_to_battle_h.shtml [accessed 11 January 2011] Many victims fear coming forward
because captors threaten to kill them and their families. Some victims are Legalizing Human Trafficking Basav Sen
[freelance writer and activist in At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] For six months, Francisco* was a
prisoner of his employers. He was housed in a trailer in rural central Vigilance Needed in Fight Against Human Trafficking New news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=7cff91dbcbc45f06a8a6d7b69538f010 [accessed 26 August 2011] The maid revealed that despite
being promised a part-time job and a work visa, her employer paid far less
than minimum wage, did not offer breaks, held her travel documents, isolated
her from calling her family, and threatened to call the police and
immigration authorities. She spoke little English and had no idea who she
could call for help. www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2006/May/06_crt_332.html [accessed 12 January 2011] The Justice Department today announced
the conviction of a Jefferson and Elnora Calimlim, both doctors in Human Trafficking: Modern Day Slavery, Part 1 Lauren Burgoyne, WSAW, May 22, 2006 www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/2844911.html [accessed 12 January 2011] Nineteen trafficking cases were
reported to The Greater Milwaukee Area Rescue and Restore Coalition over the
past year. Incidents were reported in cities like A new bid to halt toll of human trafficking Claire Cooper and Christina Jewett, The Bee, May 20, 2006
– [story appeared on Page A16 of The Bee] At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Florencia Molina's sewing teacher in New Process Benefits Victims of Human Trafficking Seeking
College Aid www2.ed.gov/news/pressreleases/2006/05/05102006.html [accessed 12 January 2011] Victims of human trafficking who
cooperate with law enforcement officials to prosecute traffickers will
benefit from a new, streamlined process to apply for and receive federal
financial aid for postsecondary education, announced today by U.S. Education
Secretary Margaret Spellings. Three charged in alleged human trafficking scheme 05/04/2006 www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=4861097 [access date unavailable] Human Trafficking Is Modern Day Slavery, Prostitution Is
Involved Cynthia Bercowetz,
Author/Consumer Advocate, www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/ReleaseDetails.aspx?ID=12524&CFID=3644675&CFTOKEN=90442020 [accessed 12 January 2011] But trafficking also occurs in
forms of labor exploitation, such as domestic servitude or restaurant work,
sweatshop, factory work or migrant agricultural work. Victims serve in wealthy
residents' homes, migrants trapped in the fields trying to pay off a debt
they never will be able to pay to captors who helped smuggle them into the
country. Children are smuggled into the country and sex slavery. www.change.org/news/view?news_id=826 [access date unavailable] Two Associated Press AP, www.ginsc.net/main.php?option=view_article&mode=0&article=1122&lang=en [accessed 26 August 2011] Prosecutors say Ellilian Ramos paid a smuggler $250 to bring the two
women across the Batres and Sales say the couple promised
to pay them $125 a week after smuggling costs were worked off. Instead, Ellilian Ramos didn't pay them and threatened to call
immigration authorities if they tried to leave. The women said they also worked
for the Ramos' family members and at Papacito's Day
Care, which is owned by Ellilian Ramos' sister.
Both women escaped through a window on Jan. 11, 2005, with help from two
women they met at the business. Posted: Apr 28, 2006 -- Probable Source: khon.com/khon/display.cfm?storyID=13180§ionID=1150 www.alipac.us/ftopic-24664-0-days0-orderasc-.html [accessed 12 January 2011] A New push to combat human trafficking Lolly Bowean, www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-0604230252apr23,0,4744942.story [accessed 12 January 2011] Victims of human trafficking blend
in with the community as they toil as nannies, servants, laborers and
sweatshop and construction workers, said a top The campaign is intended to alert
people to look for signs of abuse that indicate workers have been forced into
servitude, said Carol Adams, director of the state Department of Human
Services. Key Witness missing in CO slavery case against Homaidan Al-Turki and Sarah Khonaizan [accessed 12 January 2011] An Indonesian woman who was kept
as a virtual slave and who was also a key witness against a Saudi Arabian
couple, Homaidan Al-Turki
and his wife, Sarah Khonaizan. A modern day slavery
case where the victim was forced cook clean and was
sexually abused. Sex Trafficking of American Youth [PDF] Stop Trafficking! - Anti-Human Trafficking Newsletter,
Vol.4 No.3, March 2006 homepage.mac.com/srjeanschafersds/stoptraffic/archives/stoptraff43.pdf [accessed 14 August 2011] ANTI-HUMAN TRAFFICKING NEWSLETTER -
THIS ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS FACTORS AFFECTING THE TRAFFICKING OF AMERICAN CHILDREN Kris, age 15, was lured from a Ellen, a 16-year old runaway, was
forced to work for a NJ prostitution ring that operated out of motels ... Debbie, 15 years old, the middle
child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Three Mexican Nationals Convicted of Sex Trafficking At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] At this re-arraignment hearing on
Friday, February 3, Jose Luis Moreno Salazar admitted that in 2004 he, along
with another, illegally smuggled a then 15 year old juvenile Mexican girl,
M.R.G., into the United States, knowing she was a minor and compelled her to
serve as a prostitute through the use of force, fraud and coercion for the
financial benefit of the conspirators. Jose Luis Moreno Salazar
lured M.R.G. from her family by professing love and claiming she would live
with him as his common law wife. The evidence proved that once in Sex rings prey on immigrant women Franco Ordoñez, Charlotte
Observer, January 29, 2006 [accessed 12 January 2011] SUPPLY AND DEMAND - Human trafficking often begins
with someone paying to be smuggled across the border. The situation changes
when smugglers increase their prices or add fees the person is unable to pay.
Smugglers then force them into work to pay off the debt. For women, the work
is often prostitution. In all, between 20,000 and 50,000
victims are trafficked yearly into the Emancipation 2006 - Saving innocents from modern-day
slavery (a work in progress) Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review NRO Editor, January
26, 2006 old.nationalreview.com/lopez/lopez200601260832.asp [accessed 12 January 2011] According to U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement, investigations into trafficking "increased by more than
400 percent in the first six months of fiscal year 2005, compared to the
total number of cases in fiscal year 2004." Although keeping true
numbers on these elusive crimes is next to impossible, according to the U.S.
Department of Justice, between 14,500 and 17,500 people are being traded
within the Mexican national pleads guilty to bringing sex slaves to
Houston-area bars Associated Press AP, Houston, January 17, 2006 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Salvador Fernando Molina Garcia,
37, an illegal immigrant, has pleaded guilty to smuggling girls and young
women from The single count superseding
indictment re-alleges that Gerardo Salazar, 40, is the leader of a group of
men who smuggled minor girls and young women from Slavery Slips Through Cracks in Michelle Chen, 05 July 2005 -- Source:
newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2032 [accessed 12 January 2011] Bernstein, whose group handles a
constant flow of slavery cases, listed some typical scenarios: An offer to earn good wages and
study lures a teenage girl abroad, where she is forced to work eighteen hours
a day as a housekeeper Aided by a smuggler, a young man’s
passage across the US-Mexico border ends with a crushing debt, to be repaid
through captive manual
labor. More Slave-Holding Immigrants in
the West Daniel Pipes, Lion's Den, December 16, 2005 www.danielpipes.org/blog/2005/12/more-slave-holding-muslim-immigrants-in-the [accessed 12 January 2011] Abdelnasser Eid Youssef Ibrahim, 45, and his
former wife Amal Ahmed Ewis-abd
Motelib, 43: The Egyptian immigrants, living in Salvadoran Nationals in the www.nyjtimes.com/cover/12-19-05/SalvadoransSexTraffickingScheme.htm [accessed 12 January 2011] According to the complaint, one
young woman earned about $500 to $600 a week selling drinks to male
customers. But after paying debts that included alien smuggling fees, food,
housing, clothing and other miscellaneous items, she received approximately
$50 each week. In addition to the almost insurmountable debt, the complaint
alleges that the defendants used threats of violence against the women and
their families to control them and keep them working. The complaint alleges
that the defendants compelled the woman and girls to submit to the sexual
demands of the defendants, their close associates and bar patrons. U.S. crackdown on child prostitution hits Michigan David Ashenfelter, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] Two Toledo girls -- one 14 years
old, the other 15 -- were held against their will and forced to perform sex
for pay at hotels in Ohio and a truck stop in Michigan, according to a
federal grand jury indictment unsealed Friday in Detroit. www.justice.gov/usao/cac/pressroom/pr2005/164.html [accessed 12 January 2011] According to a plea agreement
filed today, in January 2003, Okhotina paid for a ticket
for her 18-year-old niece to fly from Okhotina coerced her niece to work as a
prostitute by telling her that she would be arrested if she went to the
police because she was here in the As a result of this coercion, the
teenager engaged in prostitution in Sex slavery is big business Nancy Holland, KHOU-TV – Channel 11 News - www.thesilverbraid.org/sex%20trafficking.htm [accessed 12 January 2011] Earlier this week,
eight people were charged with smuggling 100 girls from Central America into Police target human trafficking Kevin Corcoran, -- Source:
www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051128/NEWS01/511280394/1006 [accessed 12 January 2011] In Enslaved in Tina Frundt, Women's Funding
Network, Nov 28 2005 [accessed 12 January 2011] I was 14 years old
when I was forced into prostitution. Like many teens at that age, finding my
own identity and defying my parents were top on my list. So when a man came
into my life and showered me with attention and listened to me when I
complained about my parents, I did not think twice that he was ten years my
senior. After all, he said I was mature for my age and told me I understood
him better than anyone his own age. Human Trafficking Seen as Threat Within Nation's Borders Kelli Cottrell, Baptist Press, www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=22118 [accessed 12 January 2011] "This summer we
arrested a ring where 100 girls from Runaway raped, held as sex slave Judi Villa and Lindsey Collom,
The www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1109girlrescue09.html [accessed 12 January 2011] Since September, the
15-year-old girl had been raped repeatedly, threatened with death and sold
for sex over the Internet, police said.
Her captors hid the runaway in a hollowed-out box spring covered with
a piece of wood and tucked underneath a bed in a small apartment complex adjacent
to Interstate 17 in west Suspect in runaway prostitute case was child prostitute Associated Press AP, Nov 10, 2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Couple guilty of fraud, forced
labor Associated Press AP, heartlandvalues.blogspot.com/2005/11/couple-guilty-of-fraud-forced-labor.html [accessed 12 January 2011] The married owners of a
group home for the mentally ill were convicted Monday of enslaving its
residents, forcing them to work naked and perform videotaped sex acts. Woman Tells Terrifying Story Of
Teen Prostitution www.10news.com/news/5237000/detail.html [accessed 12 January 2011] Her nightmare started
in a Sex trafficking hits home Emily Kaiser, The At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] You couldn't spot them
on the street, but right now there are slaves living in local neighborhoods,
hidden in basements and being transported along area highways. The CIA estimates 50,000 women and children
are transported each year throughout the To stop a forced sex trade Emily Kaiser, The At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] She said she was
trafficked by her family as a young girl and escaped by saving money for
college. Stark attended the University her first year and transferred to
University of Wisconsin-Madison to get away from her family. Rural Slavery is no longer black, white Lance Cpl. R. Drew Hendricks, Marine Corps News Room, Sep.
23, 2005 -- Story Identification #: 200592315119 www.marine-corps-news.com/2005/09/slavery_is_no_longer_black_whi.htm [accessed 12 January 2011] Due to recent
increases in the number of trafficking in persons
cases and the release of the 5th annual Trafficking in Persons Report,
President George W. Bush has required the Department of Defense to increase
its training and awareness of this crime in order to assist in its
prevention. The Marine Corps has
decided to take on this challenge in a very direct manner. “The Marine Corps will take a zero
tolerance approach to trafficking in persons…and the Marine Corps opposes all
activities that contribute to this crime,” said Gen. Michael W. Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps, in All Marine
Message 016/05. In light of the Corps
zero tolerance stance no Marine, Sailor or civilian Marine will ever
participate in any crime associated with trafficking in persons, no matter
how small the association. Doing so will result in severe punishment. Sexual Slavery in Prison New York Times Editorial, October 12, 2005 [accessed 12 January 2011] A former inmate has told
jurors how corrections officers ignored his written pleas for help, and even
laughed at him, while he was repeatedly raped and sold into sexual slavery by
prisoners who viewed him as property.
According to court documents, vulnerable inmates were told to either
fight it out with rapists or find boyfriends who would protect them in return
for sex. Mr. Johnson says gang members were free to rape him, sometimes by
paying a few dollars to the prisoner who in effect "owned" him. Behind the moral panic, an opportunity
to work Carol Leigh, Open Forum, SFGate,
July 22, 2005 www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/07/22/EDGHGDRSV41.DTL [accessed 12 January 2011] When hundreds of
federal and state agents descended on massage parlors in Oversexed Debbie Nathan, Agence Global, 12
August 2005 www.thenation.com/article/oversexed?page=full [accessed 26 August 2011] On paper the law looks good. But
in practice it hasn't helped many people so far, and it's hurt others, while
placing undue emphasis on commercial sex work and downplaying the plight of
victims in other jobs, like Service providers stress that
coerced sex brutalizes victims, and they're glad the government and the media
are concerned. But they wonder why other workers' suffering gets so much less
attention. The terror evoked by imprisonment in a sweatshop, says CAST's Buck, "is just as severe as it is for a
person who's sex trafficked." The Real Deal Alicia Mundy,The [accessed 13 January 2011] As the hound of human traffickers,
John Miller believes playing politics is not an option. Recently, Goldberg elaborated: "I've
only interviewed about 20 million people in my time. He was furious that he'd
been lied to about this. He just came through as the real deal." Annie Sweeney, Crime Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times, August
9, 2005 www.cocoalounge.org/viewthread.php?tid=17869 [accessed 13 January 2011] ALMOST A
BRAINWASHING - "He
kept all the money. He made them believe he was keeping the money for them.
The girls were not free to leave. He kept them in horrible hotels. And moved
them around. He paid for food and clothing," said Assistant U.S. Attorney
Carrie Hamilton. "It's almost a brainwashing that takes place. It's a
very complicated, horrible relationship." Surviving Annie Sweeney, Crime Reporter, Chicago Sun-Times, August
7, 2005 www.ipsn.org/organized_crime/prostitution/surviving_chicago.htm [accessed 13 January 2011] A GUN TO
THE HEAD - Mishulovich and the others had no intention of ever
letting the debt get paid down, authorities said. On a good night, Z would
earn $500. And just about all of it went to the crew, who also checked her
belongings at the end of the night, looking for hidden cash. Captive Workforce ( Michelle Chen, The New Standard, July 5, 2005 www.ncdsv.org/images/SlaverySlipsThroughCracksUSPolicyPt1.pdf [accessed 13 January 2011] [page 7] Around nine o’clock, the guards
would shut the gates of the factory compound, preventing employees from
escaping. But the fences were only an extra precaution; starvation, threats
and beatings had sapped many of even the hope of ever leaving. Modern Slavery Jorge Mújica Murias,
La Raza, 06-10-2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] A HIDDEN
PROBLEM - Regarding
this phenomenon, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) declared that in 2004
it detected sixteen thousand undocumented Mexicans and Central Americans
subjected to sex and labor slavery in the Associated Press AP, www.freedomunderground.org/view.php?v=3&t=3&aid=16400 [accessed 13 January 2011] Officials said homeless people
were recruited to the Evans Labor Camp through offers of room and board,
along with alcohol, tobacco and drugs, which they bought on credit. But they
never made enough in the field to pay it off, according to an investigative
summary. "A lot of times, they
get them indebted even before they get back to the camp," Human trafficking goes on in David Crary, Associated Press
AP, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] On Jan. 1, 2002, she worked her
first shift at the dressmaker’s; sewing roughly 200 party dresses over 12
hours. Later, the shifts often
stretched to 17 hours a day. Molina was locked into the shop at night -
sleeping with a co-worker in a small storage room. The shop manager paid
Molina roughly $100 a week, confiscated her identity documents, and told her
she would be arrested if she went to the authorities. "For me, it was completely dark,
without money, without English, no papers, nothing," Molina said in an
interview. 10 Charged in International Human Smuggling Ring officialcoldcaseinvestigations.com/showthread.php?p=7772 [accessed 13 January 2011] [scroll up] The women, mostly from rural, poor
villages in Saudis Import Slaves to Daniel Pipes, www.danielpipes.org/2687/saudis-import-slaves-to-america [accessed 13 January 2011] Last week, however, the FBI
accused the couple of enslaving an Indonesian woman who is in her early 20s.
For four years, reads the indictment, they created "a climate of fear
and intimidation through rape and other means." The slave woman cooked,
cleaned, took care of the children, and performed other tasks for little or
no pay, fearing that if she did not obey, "she would suffer serious
harm." It's shocking, especially for a
graduate student and owner of a religious bookstore - but not particularly
rare. Here are other examples of enslavement, all involving Saudi royals or
diplomats living in Sex Slaves Revisited Jack Shafer, editor at large, Slate, June 7, 2005 [accessed 13 January 2011] To be sure, sex slavery in the A Modern Slave Trade John R. Miller, Director of the Office to Monitor and
Combat Trafficking in Persons, Op-Ed, New York Post Online Edition, May 22,
2005 At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Consider recent trafficking cases
right here in Earlier this spring, a American women and girls are
victims of sex trafficking too. In February of this year, a father-son team
in NY State Wants to Make Human Trafficking a Felony Filipino Reporter, News Report, news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=18eac6f2c9a24fe76a0812b5554d6890 [accessed 26 August 2011] Last March, a Filipino-American
Wisconsin couple — both physicians — was indicted for human trafficking for
holding a Filipina as a domestic servant in their home for 19 years by
threatening her with deportation, imprisonment and physical restraint. Last fall, a 60-year-old Filipino woman in The new face of slave trade in Houston? June 03, 2005 www.khou.com/news/local/houstonmetro/stories/khou050526_jt_slavetrade.2b139287e.html [Last access date unavailable] He says the girls working at most
Asian and Oriental spas were smuggled here against their will. "They don't let 'em
out the doors. They don't get breaks. They can't leave and go shopping,"
says David. Three Arrested in Connection with Prostitution Case WTOL-11 News, www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=3386434 [accessed 13 January 2011] Two Human trafficking initiative advances in eastern Missouri Cheryl Wittenauer, Associated
Press AP, At one time this article had been archived and may possibly
still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 September 2011] "The minute you start talking
about it, individuals in the community will say, 'I may know somebody who may
be a victim," said Suzanne LeLaurin, vice
president of the International Institute, a refugee resettlement agency.
"The victims are so controlled by traffickers, it's difficult to find
them until you start doing assertive outreach and investigation. "As soon as you start doing that, you
find them." Bills Target International Slave Trade www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/6308912p-6185191c.html [access date unavailable] Slave trafficking is not a new problem
on the world stage, but now states are responding to calls to fight it at
home - even in Study Alleges Slavery In State Herbert A. Sample, The [accessed 13 September 2011] The greatest number
of victims were forced to work in prostitution, according to the
report. Others labored in garment sweatshops or as house cleaners. The bulk of the abuses occurred in and
around Forced-Labor Charges For Saudi Prince's Wife Stephanie Ebbert and Scott
Goldstein, The www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2005/03/31/forced_labor_charges_for_saudi_princes_wife/ [partially accessed 13 January 2011 - access restricted] The wife of a Saudi prince was
arrested yesterday for allegedly forcing two Indonesian housekeepers to work
for her family at homes in Russian woman pleads innocent to forcing niece into
prostitution Associated Press AP, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Her niece, who was 18 at the time
and had come from a small town near St. Petersburg, told investigators Okhotina hid her passport, destroyed her plane ticket
home and subjected her to regular beatings, threats and rape by strangers,
the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. Florida Man Accused of Buying Children for use in
Pornography NBC-2 News, At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] A Debra W. www.justice.gov/usao/cac/pressroom/pr2005/021.html [accessed 13 January 2011] The indictment alleges that Ibrahim and Motelib obtained
the victim's services through extortionate threats against the victim's
sister in Opening our Eyes to the World's Trafficking Nightmare Swanee Hunt, Scripps Howard News Service,
March 30, 2005 www.swaneehunt.com/articles/SHNS_OpeningOurEyesToTheWorldsTraffickingNightmare.htm [accessed 13 January 2011] “Neighbors, I’m sure, thought I
was family and had no idea I’d been sold for $2,500 to be a servant,”
described Micheline, a trafficking survivor, to a
crowd at the International Institute of Boston. Micheline,
who lost her parents as a young child, was 14 when her extended family told
her she was moving to the Couple Indicted On Human Trafficking Charges www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2005/February/05_crt_050.htm [accessed 13 January 2011] According to the three count
indictment, Joseph Djoumessi and Evelyn Djoumessi violated federal law by fraudulently bringing a
14 year old Cameroonian girl into the "Too often human traffickers
bait young girls with promises of the American dream only to then force them
into involuntary servitude. Civilized society cannot tolerate this,"
said R. Alexander Acosta, Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights
Division. "The Justice Department takes these charges very seriously and
is committed to prosecuting those who attempt to profit by the systematic
abuse and degradation of others." Woman pleads guilty to holding a domestic worker in
involuntary servitude www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2004/March/04_crt_188.htm [accessed 13 January 2011] In 1997, the defendant, Mariska Trisanti, arranged for
the victim to travel from Farm Contractors Plead Guilty In Slavery Case nysut.org/newyorkteacher/2004-2005/050217slavery.html [accessed 13 January 2011] The town of Prostitution horror for young women Nicole Bode, www.stopdemand.org/afawcs0112878/ID=137/newsdetails.html [accessed 13 September 2011] Before the night is over, the
girls of "Zona Rosa" - a notorious
red-light district just a few blocks from the main tourist drag in this
Mexican border town - will make as much as $250 each by selling sex. It's cold-blooded sexual slavery - forced
prostitution that began when they were kidnapped from their small towns in Stephen J. Murphy, United States Attorney, Eastern At one time this article had been archived and may
possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 13 September 2011] Maksimenko admitted today that he and his
business partners, including Aronov, trafficked in
Eastern European women and used the guise of a legitimate business – Beauty
Search, Inc. – to cover their criminal conduct. Maksimenko
admitted that he and his partners smuggled women into the Region's human traffic is targeted - Task force to
prosecute sex-trade, slavery cases Mark Arner, San Diego
Union-Tribune, March 30, 2005 www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050330/news_1m30human.html [accessed 13 January 2011] Many of the girls and young women
had been promised work as maids and were smuggled into Three Mexicans Plead Guilty in All American Patriots, 06 April 2005 -- Source:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security News
Release, April 5, 2005 www.allamericanpatriots.com/node/8922 [accessed 13 January 2011] They admitted to forcing young
Mexican women into prostitution in brothels throughout the Homegrown Sex Trafficking [PDF] Excerpted from: homepage.mac.com/srjeanschafersds/stoptraffic/archives/stoptraff43.pdf [accessed 13 January 2011] [page 6] Escape is often impossible. Fear
maintains their victim status. Minors live in fear of sadistic acts by
"customers," fear of being beaten and abused if they fail to bring
in their quota (ranging from $500 to $1,800 a day/night), fear of losing
their coping mechanisms (drugs and alcohol), and fear of losing a place to
live and food to eat. These children are also ashamed and fear their families
will find out what they have been doing. They fear the police and fear being
returned home. Department of italy.usembassy.gov/viewer/article.asp?article=/file2005_01/alia/a5010605.htm [access date unavailable] DOJ estimated in June 2004 that 14,500-17,500 people were being trafficked into the United St | |||
