Sex TraffickingArchive 2008–2016

Sex Trafficking in Northeast Philadelphia (2009)

A sex trafficking case from 2009 in Northeast Philadelphia, United States.

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

What happened

Police arrested two men at the scene on charges of kidnapping, rape, and possession of narcotics, says cbs3.com. Police took three women into custody for on suspicion of prostitution. The prostitution ring may be part of a much larger operation, say investigators.

Response and intervention

Police raided the hotel rooms on a narcotics violation and discovered 2 women beaten, drugged and bound held against their will as apparent sex slaves. The two women, who appeared to be tied, drugged and “beaten into submission,” were brought to a local hospital.

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Sex Trafficking2001

Camden, New Jersey, United States, 2001

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Sex Trafficking2006

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 2006

United States US

A syndicate held girls as sex slaves by forcing them to work off tens of thousands of dollars of debt they had accrued for phony documents and transportation to the U.S., the feds said. Investigators said recruiters in Korea sought out women who wanted to make money to support their families. The recruiters took care of everything, supplying fake immigration documents, passports and visas, and transporting the women to the U.S. A network of transporters drove them to brothels along the East Coast. They were stripped of their identification and phony passports, thus cutting off any chance that they could flee the country. Besides, if they thought about running, the women were warned that they could be handed over to the police - or, worse yet, that their fhttp://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-16694466_ITMamilies in Korea could be killed.

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