CSEC2011
United States US
From 2002 to 2008 (exact dates unknown) Michael L. Buck “recruited, harbored, transported, provided and obtained females to engage in commercial sex acts through threats of serious harm, physical restraint and force.” On May 12, 2010, Buck pleaded guilty to trafficking women into involuntary servitude and coerced commercial sex. Buck admitted he obtained females to engage in commercial sex acts, and that he caused them to engage in commercial sex acts through threats of serious harm, physical restraint, and force. Buck utilized a phone service, Quest, to advertise the women for sexual acts in Kansas City, Mo., and in Independence, Mo., and obtained customers from both Missouri and Kansas. He sold the women in such locations as apartments, houses, motels and strip clubs. According to court documents, Buck would often beat, burn, choke, cut and tie up his female victims if they refused to engage in prostitution
Bonded Labor2006
United States US
David L. Carslake 55, david H. Mackintosh 45, Jeffrey S. Guinn 45, of Kansas City and Evgney Sergeyevich Filimonov 20, Vadim Aleksandvovich-Tokarev 21 of Russia. Recruited 8 Russian students from Voronozh to work in US under student work program. Each student borrowed $2,500 from their parents to make the trip. The students thought they had signed up for a student work program where they could earn $10,000 over the summer, instead forced to work 13 hour days at 87 cents an hour. All 8 shared two, one-bedroom apartments with a television and a mattress. Traffickers cut the students off from telephone and internet. The students' activities were monitored by the traffickers using GPS systems. A maintenance worker at Northland apartments worked with managers of Frosty Treats ice cream truck company and two Russian nationals.