Sex TraffickingArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking in Alameda County, California (2006)

A sex trafficking case from 2006 in Alameda County, California, United States.

This page describes exploitation and abuse. Need to report something? How to report →

Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

When the victim's grandmother asked for her to be removed because she had run away from home so many times, she was placed in a group home. She continued her pattern of running away. After arrests from prostitution, drugs, and going AWOL from a group home, she was placed in Juvenile Hall. When going AWOl again, she was sent to MISSSEY in Oakland. She was subsequently arrested for being an accomplice to a murder, tried and found guilty. Presejtly she is serving time in prison. She did not identify her pimp's name, and he was not apprehended or tried for any involvement in the murder.

Response and intervention

She was arrested many times for solicitation, possession of drugs, and going AWOL. She was not provided any counseling services as a victim of prostitution until she was sent to MISSSEY. She was emancipated more than once, but repeated a pattern of returning to prositution ujder a total of 8 different pimps. The only social services that she received as a victim of child sexual exploitation was when she was sent to MISSSEY. From MISSSEY for less than a year. MISSSEY supplied information about this case to a small group of attendees at Not For Sale's Investigator Academy in San Francisco in June, 2009.

Nearby cases

All 892 in the United States →

CSEC2008

Hayward, United States, 2008

United States US

Trafficker Aaron Pierre Brown Aka Mac Prozac, aka Prozac, aka Pro, aka Pierre, aka Daddy, aka Jamar P. Adanadus, aka Jamar Adanandus, aka Jamar Pierre Adanandus. Age 28, lived in Hayward, CA Indicted for pimping out three underage girls in both California and Arizona. Brown bought lingerie for the girls, took pictures of them, and then advertised them on Craigslist. Brown spent time with the girls in his apartment on Civic Center Drive and in San Jose Hotels. It was reported by one of the girls that she was frequently beaten and had had her nose broken from one beating. He reportedly used such items such as cords and wire hangers. According to the complaint, Brown encouraged at least one victim to read a book he authored which contained rules the minor had to obey while working as a prostitute. Victims alleged that Brown controlled everything and would force victims to work on “tracks,” in his apartment and in hotels throughout California and in Arizona. Brown also had unprotected sex with at least one of the girls, giving him a son in January

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016

CSEC2011

Hayward, California, United States, 2011

United States US

Jerome Burns, convicted May 31, 2011. The 14 year old victim, Jane Doe, was previously enslaved by a child trafficker who sold her for sex in Hayward, San Jose and Salinas, CA. In December 2009, Jerome Burns approached the victim, who thought Burns was a john. Burns took Jane Doe and kept her in his hotel room, where he forced her to commit an act of prostitution for money and also had one of his friends use her services. Burns also forced the minor to orally copulate him twice and raped her twice as well. Burns also forced her to pose for provocative photos and posted them online on Craigslist and myredbook.com.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016

Domestic Servitude2010

South Fremont, California, United States, 2010

United States US

Fang Ping Ding, 62; Wei Wei Liang, 36; and Bo Shen, 43 recruited a woman from China in December of 2007. They brought her to the U.S. to live in Ding's home and be a nanny and house-cleaner. Upon her arrival at the home, the Chinese woman's passport, identification papers and documents, and visa were taken from her. She proceeded to work in the home which included cleaning, cooking, and providing childcare services. During the work that was forced upon her, she was physically abused and received no pay. The victim escaped in April 2009 and contacted authorities with the help of a passerby. Ding was sentenced to 37 months in prison on a human-trafficking charge for forcing this woman to work as an unpaid live-in domestic servant and for confiscating the woman's visa, passport, and other documents. Liang was sentenced to home confinement. Shen was sentenced to probation on related immigration charges of harboring the victim. The defendants must also jointly pay the woman $83,867.

Needs a sourceArchive 2008–2016