CSEC2008
United States US
Rishi Sanwal, 23 year old. Lived in El Dorado hills with his parents in a multi-million dollar mansion located at 3105 Hopkins Place in El Dorado Hills. On March 18 Kacie was seen entering Sanwal’s maroon colored Hummer outside a Safeway in the Stonegate Village near Francisco and Green Valley roads. Sanwal then used force, fraud, and coercion to cause a 17-year- old girl to engage in prostitution. Sanwal gave the victim the name “Amy” and used that name when he posted ads on the Craigslist erotic services section. He took the victim from El Dorado to the Bay area, before returning to Rocklin, CA and posting another Craigslist advertisement. Then once again they returned to the Bay Area.
Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
Sardar Gasanov, and his wife Nadira Gasanov recruited women from their hometown of Tashkent, Uzbekistan to come to the US with the promise of modeling jobs and the ability to bring their family to the US after them. Sargar is was a research assistant in the Biological Science Department at the University of Texas at El Paso. The couple got J-1 visas for the victims, which stated they were scientists who would be doing research for the University of Texas at El Paso. Once the women arrived, their immigration documents and passports were taken by the Gasanovs, and they were forced to work seven days a week at strip clubs in El Paso. They were forced to work through threats of deportation and threats against their families, which enticed the women to work hard and give all their earnings to the Gasanovs. It is estimated the couple made over $700,000 from their business from 1998-2001.
Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
Honey's, a strip club in Everett, and several other Puget Sound area clubs owned by the Calacurcio family are the focus of a federal investigation into organized crime. Honey,s, Snohomish County's only strip club, according to federal investigators, is a haven for prostituttion, with dancers blatantly offering sex for money and the clubs owners taking kickbacks from the illegal activities. Federal agents and local police raided the clubs owned by Frank Colacurcio Sr. and his son, Frank Colacurcio Jr. Monday morning. No charges have been filed. Instead a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order against the clubs' owners prohibiting them from selling off the clubs or their assets. The freeze is part of a ongoing rackateering investigation that alleges the clubs were run by a criminal enterprise according to court papers.
Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
Jerome Todd of Everett, Washington, is arrest and sentenced to 26 years in prison for pimping. The federal judge ordered Todd to pay nearly $70,000 to 3 women who worked for him as prostitutes. A jury in May had convicted Todd, 29, of numerous federal sex-for-sale crimes, including sex trafficking. Jurors were convinced Todd forced women to sell their bodies as part of an Internet-based prostitution ring.
Domestic Servitude2008
United States US
Joseph and Evelyn Djoumessi brought the victim, a 14-year old girl from Cameroon, to the U.S. in October 1996 to work against her will as a domestic servant in their home. The victim took care of the couple's children, cleaned the home, and was beaten in make sure she performed her duties. Joseph also sexually abused the victim. The victim worked for the couple until February 2000.
Domestic Servitude2008
United States US
In the summer of 2005, Mohammad Atahee (then age 33) married a 13 year-old girl in Afghanistan and then brought her back to the US and coerced her into being a slave at homes in Federal Way and Auburn. Atahee is also accused in court documents of beating and sexually assaulting the girl at his Federal Way home. Atahee (now 37) and the Yousuf family (Nasima Yousuf, 70; Mohammad Yousuf, 84; Nahid Yousufi, 29; and Maruf Yousufi, 42) forced the teen to cook, clean and do laundry. For about 18 months beginning in August 2006, Atahee required the girl to "perform all the household chores in his home and restricted activities outside of the home" at 2511 S. 286th Place, Federal Way, WA. During the same period the Yousufis required her to perform all the household chores and care for their children at 28004 33rd Ave. S., Auburn, WA.
Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
Wun and Kyongja Kang promised victims from Seoul a better life in the U.S. and work in their bar “Renaissance Bar & Room Café” in Flushing. The women were told they would have respectable jobs keeping customers company at the bar and pouring drinks. After arrival, the victims were told they each owed Kang a $10,000 smuggling debt and for their rent. The victims were never paid for their work, and their passports were taken. The victims were told they could work of their debt faster if they preformed sex acts for customers. When they tried to escape they were caught and sexually assaulted.
Child Labor2008
Guinea GN
Police intercepted the girl with 9 others and a woman trying to cross a border at Forecariah, Guinea in a van in the middle of the night. This region is one of the hardest hit in regard to child trafficking. The police also helped by contacting the victim's parents.
CSEC2008
United States US
David Pierre pleaded guilty to sex trafficking a minor on July 15, 2009 and was sentenced in federal court in Fort Lauderdale on October 22, 2009 before U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas to 10 years in prison to be followed by 5 years of supervised release as a sex offender Jenna Linden pleaded guilty to sex trafficking a minor on August 13, 2009 and was sentenced in federal court on September 23, 2009 before U.S. District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas to 5 years in prison to be followed by 3 years
Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
74 year old Bernie Hoffman, more commonly known as Tony Alamo, started the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries in the late 1990s. The Tony Alamo Christian MInistries have compounds in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and New Jersey. The Arkansas compound started had 100 followers, and Alamo "preached that young girls made the best wives." Alamo transported five underage girls across state lines for sex. Three out of the five girls openly said Alamo sexually abused them. Among these criminal accounts, since the 1970s Alamo was alleged of "kidnapping, brainwashing, child abuse.."
Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
An undercover officer met with Mr. Stump in the Freemont area and had a fairly lengthy discussion on the sale of the child. The terms of it, and the amount involved. Stump paid the officer $500 dollars and arranged to pick up the child later in the day. Officers pulled Stump over on his way home and took him into custody. He told police he intended to take the girl out of state and marry her.
Sex Trafficking2008
Canada CA
Emerson, aged 28, was charged in connection with crimes involving several victims between the ages of 15 and 20. Emerson worked with co-accused, Gordon John Kingsbury, who has been charged with sexual assault, forcible confinement and living on the avails of prostitution Emerson has been charged with several charges including living off the avails of an underage prostitute; extortion and exercising control; attempting to procure someone under the age of 18 for prostitution; and procuring someone under 18 for prostitution. She has been charged in both Gatineau and Ottawa. The human trafficking charge is in Gatineau.
Domestic Servitude2008
Uganda UG
Every Child Ministries' workers were visiting homes of a nearby area, looking for children in desperate conditions so as to seek sponsors for them to enable them to go to school and to give them a better quality life. While doing so, they heard about the terrible condition of this boy who was being treated as a slave in a nearby village. The workers visited the family and verified the story. Through a cooperative effort with local law enforcement, they were able to find a home for the boy with another relative.
Domestic Servitude2008
United States US
George Udeozor brought the victim from Nigeria to the U.S. in 1996, when she was 14 years old. The victim was forced to care for Udeozor’s children and perform household chores until October 2001. The victim was physically and sexually assaulted while living in the Udeozor home, and was not allowed to attend school. She was brought to the U.S. on a passport that was not her own, and her family had been promised that she would be paid for her work, and allowed to attend school. She was threatened by Udeozor and his wife, and told that is she resisted she would be sent back to Nigeria.
CSEC2008
United States US
Christopher Coleman, 23, and Murphy Lettleton, 32 The girls were forced into prostitution and were told to do whatever was asked of them, They solicited sex for $50 and $60 for other sexual acts, working mostly in the San Fernando Valley, she said. But the girls mostly spent their nights sleeping in a Glendale hotel room The men kept the girls’ earnings, but they bought the girls shoes, clothes and video games and provided them a place to sleep, Razana said. So they stayed with the men because they were afraid to be alone and sleeping on the streets.
Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
She is charged with racketeering (class 2 felony), pimping (class 3 felony), tax evasion (class 5 felony), keeping a place of prostitution (class 2 misdemeanor), and promoting sexual immorality (class 2 misdemeanor). She was booked into the Mesa County Jail on a $250,000 bond.
Sex Trafficking2008
United States US
Atzlan Jaimes-Santana and Rolando Hernandez-Hernandez were among the eight people charged in the Fall of 2007 as part of a prostitution ring that prosecutors say stretched across the Southeast and involved more than 100 women from Latin America.
Domestic Servitude2008
Guinea GN
After her mother and brother died, the victim's father gave her away at age 8 to work as a domestic servant. She did housework for 18 hours a day, but she was never paid. She slept on the verandah and ate leftovers. Sometimes, she was denied food altogether. She was beaten frequently, particularly when she tried to rest. When his wife left the house, the male guardian raped her. She was not allowed to leave, but even if she was, she wouldn’t know where to go. She didn’t know if her father was still alive.
CSEC2008
United States US
The case was investigated by the Oregon Human Trafficking Taskforce, FBI, Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office and the Portland Police Bureau. Scurry initially was charged with a seven count indictment alleging multiple counts of sex trafficking of a child and interstate prostitution. He plead guilty to one count of sex trafficking of a minor and recieved 84 months in prison and 5 years of supervised release. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Kerin.
CSEC2008
United States US
On June 14, 2007 Dennis Paris was found guilty for operating a sex trafficking ring. He was found guilty of four counts of sex trafficking, one count of conspiracy, money laundering, and 13 counts of using interstate facilities to promote and conduct a prostitution business. Nine other defendants in the case have pleaded guilty to charges of sex trafficking of minors and sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. One of these co-defendants, Shanaya Hicks, was sentenced to 46 months in prison. Brian Forbes, another defendant in the case, was sentenced to 156 months in prison, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $16,339 in restitution to the victims.
Forced Labor2008
United States US
Kil Soo Lee, former owner of a Daewoosa American Somoa factory, forced over 200 Vietnamese and Chinese people to work in his garment factory. The victims were recruited from China and state-owned labor companies in Vietnam. Each worker paid fees ranging from $5,000 to $8,000 to be brought the U.S. and for their job in the factory. Lee and his co-workers threatened the victims with deportation if they spoke against their poor working conditions and minimal pay. In March of 1999, workers complained about their situation to local residents in an attempt to get more food. Lee responded by arresting and deporting some of the victims, depriving the rest of food, and physically beating the workers so they continued working. A woman lost an eye due to one of these beatings. The victims continued to work in the factory until November 2000. When the victims were recruited to come work in the factory they were promised $408 per month in wages, as well as free food and housing. They were not given any of these things, and Lee took their travel documents. The clothes made in the factory were commonly sold in Sears and JcPenny stores.
CSEC2008
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
Sex Trafficking2008
Finland FI
Helsinki's Court of Appeals has convicted two Estonian men of human trafficking. The convicts were found guilty of forcing a developmentally disabled woman to prostitute herself. The court found that the men kept the woman in an apartment in Helsinki and sold her to more than a hundred men over the course of three weeks. The crimes took place in the summer of 2008. Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/teksti/news/2009/12/two_men_convicted_of_human_trafficking_in_helsinki_1325203.html Source: http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Prosecutor+calls+for+prison+sentences+in+human+trafficking+case/1135240997757
Domestic Servitude2008
United States US
In 2004, Juan and Ellilian Ramos paid $250 for Guatemalan cousins Maria de Jesus Batres and Floridalma Sales Flores to come to the U.S. work as maids or cooks and send money back to their families. Ramos told the victims that after they had paid off their $250 debt, they would be paid $125 a week. The victims were given insufficient food and water, few breaks from work, and basically no pay. The women worked up to 21-hour days, either in the Ramos' home or an adult daycare center run by Ramos' sister, where they persuaded elderly men to live in the facility. The victims faced sexual harassment, battery, emotional, and physical abuse. They were threatened by the traffickers with threats to report the women to immigration authorities or the police.