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Every case on SlaveryMap, drawn from public sources and shown with its location deliberately generalized to protect survivors.
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United States US
Annette Marie Simon 50, Heather Michelle Heald 34, forced two women from Texas to sell their bodies at settle Inn hotel at the I-435 corridor. The victims had gone into a trucking company applying for work, they found out it was a prostitution ring, and told that their families would get hurt if they did NOT "get involved".
United States US
Close to 500 guestworkers from India were trafficked to the US through the H-2B program to work in Signal International's shipyards after Hurricane Katrina, lured by false promises of lawful permanent residency. Recruiters held their passports and visas, coerced them into paying extraordinary fees and threatened them with serious harm; in the US they were required to live in Signal's guarded, overcrowded labor camps.
United States US
Adam Jermaine Ingram, 20, and Kevin Roy Woods, 18, forced two Canadian girls, ages 13 and 14, to have sex with them and others as they trafficked the girls between Vancouver, Seattle and Portland. The girls were in foster homes when they were abducted by Woods and Ingram. The 13-year-old told authorities that two Americans bought her from a Vancouver man for $3,000 on Dec. 12. The FBI said the men intended to take both girls to San Diego and make them work in an escort agency. Along the way, they stopped in Bellingham and Seattle and forced the girls to have sex with them and with other men.
United States US
Filed Oct. 8, Sarinya Reabroy’s lawsuit alleges that after persuading her in 2003 to sign a contract and move to Portland to be a line cook, Typhoon Inc., forced her to work 55 to 70 hours per week under unfair and unsafe conditions while facing “intimidation, coercion and harassment” – including the threat that she would be sent back to Thailand if she complained. In the lawsuit, Reabroy includes a contract she signed. It shows that if employees quit or are fired, they are required to reimburse the company for its recruiting and travel expenses. However, the lawsuit claims that the restaurant often used the contract to threaten and intimidate Thai kitchen workers with deportation and jail, leading them to accept improper conditions including working six days a week without legally required breaks, and verbal abuse by managers as well as groping and fondling by co-workers. The claims included that Typhoon managers confiscated workers’ passports for extended periods of time, and encouraged employees to spy on each other. Under her original contract, Reabroy was to be paid $1,500 a month, or $18,000 a year.
United States US
Jorge Carrasco Sanchez trafficked a woman to the US on April 29, 2002. Sanchez met the 16-year old victim in Ojinaga, Mexico, and brought her to the US. She was sexually assaulted by Sanchez, and he also threatened to kill her.
United States US
The girl left her home in Brooklyn on Jan. 10 and encountered someone identified only as Drama who offered to find her a job dancing at parties and introduced her to Ms. Brown, the police said. Ms. Brown told the girl that she had been “purchased” for $500 and had to work off her debt as a prostitute. She introduced Detective Taylor as her husband, the police said, although they described the couple as boyfriend and girlfriend. Detective Taylor, a 14-year-member of the Police Department assigned to the Housing Bureau, who was suspended without pay upon his arrest, set prices of $40 for oral sex and $80 for intercourse and instructed the girl to give her age as 19, investigators said. The girl was taken to a party in a barbershop, where she was forced to have sex for money that was then turned over to the suspects, the police said. That routine was repeated in the following days as the couple drove her and other prostitutes to other parties in Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn, investigators said. At one point, the suspects complained that the girl was not earning enough money, the police said, and Ms. Brown slammed the girl’s head to the floor and other prostitutes hit her. Detective Taylor threatened the girl that if she did not earn more, he would force her into streetwalking, the police said.
United States US
According to the plea agreement, and the Department of Justice, on October 20, 2008, an adult female traveled from New York to Maryland after Escobar Sanchez agreed to provide housing, transportation, and schedule customers in exchange for a share of the victim’s earnings. Juan Carlos Escobar Sanchez pleaded guilty and was sentenced to serve 10 months in prison and consented to voluntary deportation from the United States after he serves his sentence.
United States US
The locations included the Aloha Tanning Resort in Renton, Wash., the Avalon Spa in North Seattle and the Malibu Tanning Spa in Tukwila, Wash. Search warrants were also served at homes in Kent, Wash., and Renton as well as on board the "Island Girl" moored at the Westlake Marina on Lake Union in Seattle. According to court documents, Frey operated his businesses under the name of Crown Venture Capitol, Inc., and Crown Venture Management, Ltd., from his home in California. Every couple of weeks, Frey would fly to Seattle to collect thousands of dollars in cash from Nguyen and others who were managers at his businesses. Frey and Nguyen would regularly make arrangements to transport women to work in tanning salons as prostitutes. The women would stay for several weeks and eventually leave Washington state for another location. While working here at the salons, the women offered to provide sex acts to undercover officers and informants in exchange for cash. ICE was joined in this investigation by the King County Sheriff's Department and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation.
Mozambique MZ
A woman tried to smuggle female and male genitalia which were wrapped up in matapa leaves across the South African/Mozambique border. She was caught on the South African side of the border.
South Africa ZA
A man of 27/28 years attempted to smuggle 5 male genitalia across the Mozambique border, and was caught on the South African side.
Mozambique MZ
A woman attempted to cross the Mozambique/South Africa border with several children’s heads inside plastic bags in the car trunk, hidden under capulanas (traditional clothing, ed.).
Mozambique MZ
When border police searched a woman’s bags, she got upset. The police then searched further and found adult male genitalia hidden within the bags of manioc.
United States US
Owners of two local massage parlors were investigated as part of a suspected international human trafficking ring. Women were promised a better life by the operators if they came to America. When they got here, they were then told that they had a huge debt they would have to work off.
United States US
Clerks at a Rio Grande City convenience store helped nab a suspected human trafficker. They called police after spotting a woman and 2-year-old who didn't seem to belong together. The woman claimed she was given the child and a birth certificate in Roma. (The Romani are also known as Gypsies.)
United Kingdom GB
Reported 2 August 2010: Nine men convicted at Manchester Crown Court in connection with the abuse were: Aftab Khan, 31, of Tarporley Avenue, Fallowfield pleaded guilty to one count of controlling a child prostitute and one count of sexual activity with a child. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. This was later reduced to seven years on appeal Abid Khaliq, 30, of Shrewsbury Street, Stretford was sentenced to eight months in prison after admitting perverting the course of justice Noorzai Ahmed, 29, of Royce Court, Hulme was sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of paying for the sexual services of a child Mohammed Anwar Safi, 29, of no fixed address, was sentenced to 31 months in prison after admitting paying for the sexual services of a child Mohammed Khan, 26, of Royce Court, Hulme was sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of facilitating child prostitution Najibullah Safi, 33, of Reabrook Avenue, West Gorton was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to sexual activity with a child Asad Yousaf Hassa, 28, of Rivington Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting two counts of sexual activity with a child Mohammed Basharat, 28, of Prospect Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child under 16 Mohammed Atif, 29, of Rivington Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to sexual activity with a child
Italy IT
Italian authorities arrested three men who ran a circus in which a Bulgarian family was lured into debt peonage through an intermediary. Though the family was promised nearly $750 USD per week, they received less than $200 for the family of four. The family is originally from Bulgaria and were brought in to Italy to serve in the circus. The family was subject to 15-20 workdays in which a 19-yr-old woman was forced to swim in extremely cold water with pirahnas and her 16-yr-old sister was in an act where she was covered with snakes and spiders. Both girls received wounds and medical issues from their treatment. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: "ROME — Police have arrested three Italians and shut down their circus on allegations that they forced Bulgarian teenage sisters to perform in tanks full of piranhas and snakes, news reports said Wednesday. Italian dailies Corriere della Sera and La Repubblica said a 19-year-old woman was forced to swim in a tank filled with freezing water to keep the piranhas lethargic, while her 16-year-old sister was covered with snakes and tarantulas. The reports said that three suspects run a circus near Naples in southern Italy. Police acted on a tip from a spectator and moved to arrest the three Sunday night, the reports said. La Repubblica said the three are accused of holding the Bulgarians in slavery, kidnapping and human trafficking. The sisters are part of a family that was employed in the circus. According to the reports, the family lived in a truck infested with cockroaches and was forced to work 15-20 hours a day for $155 a week instead of the agreed $747. The difference was going to a Bulgarian intermediary, the reports said. A spectator tipped off the police after seeing the show, in which the 19-year-old girl tried to escape from the piranha tank "trembling with terror" as her head was held down by Ingrassia. Her 16-year-old sister was bitten by snakes that she was forced to drape on her body, and she had injuries to her stomach where the snakes had wound themselves too tightly around her. The circus owners had rubbed ointment on snake bites on her legs but had refused to take her to a doctor. Police said the Bulgarian family had lived in the back of a cockroach-infested lorry used for animal transport. The only meat they had been given since January consisted of leftovers from the circus owners' Easter lunch last weekend. Reports said the older girl had a tumor on her ear for which she had twice been operated in Bulgaria. Doctors had told her never to get water in her ears, especially cold water. However the water tank in which she was forced to swim with eight piranhas was kept at a temperature just above freezing in order to make the piranhas lethargic. The Bulgarian family has now been taken to "safe premises," police said. Police said the raid on the circus followed an undercover operation in which plain clothes officers took their families with them as cover and filmed the show as evidence. They said the arrested men appeared surprised but made no attempt to justify their behavior. Corriere della Sera said the incident appeared to be "something out of the 19th century" but showed that slavery was still "very much a reality" in modern Italy. La Stampa said the treatment of the Bulgarians was "unfortunately not an isolated incident" of illegal immigrant labor, with many East European women brought to Italy as street prostitutes."
United States US
Marvin Chapelle Epps, 23, met 16-yr-old victim on MySpace in September 2008 and offered for her to come work for him, and victim responded. He offered to buy her bus/train ticket for her to come from Solano county to Sacramento. He was her pimp for about three weeks in October 2008. He took erotic pictures of her and placed her advertisement on a number of sexual service sites including massage, escorts, etc. She reported all the money was turned over to him. Epps pleaded guilty on April 12 2010 and is scheduled to be sentenced at 10 am July 26, 2010. He faces the likely minimum 10 years in prison, $250,000 fine, a lifetime of supervised release and an order of restitution, though numbers may be higher due to specific variables according to the FBI.
United States US
Isabel Consuelo Ochoa and her daughters Consuelo Pilar Ochoa and Maria de Jesus Ochoa trafficked young girls from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to San Antonio, Texas to work as prostitutes. The Ochoas recruited girls, saying they would work as escorts, but would not be required to have sex with the men. The three known victims in the case are 15, 17, and 22 years old. After arrival, the Ochoas told victims they had to work five years as prostitutes to pay back the money spent to come to the U.S. A male associate of the Ochoas threatened the victims with a gun, telling them that should the girls leave he would find their families in Mexico and have them killed.
United States US
Quoted from the Imperial Valley News: "According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Tenorio, who is prosecuting the case with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, Black admitted that he recruited and enticed a juvenile to work as a prostitute for his financial benefit between August 15, 2007 and October 11, 2007. Black admitted that he took photographs of the juvenile wearing lingerie and in provocative poses that were then placed in ads posted on the “Craigslist” website to solicit dates. The dates, however, were prostitution “johns” who responded to the ads and made arrangements to have sex with the juvenile in exchange for payment. Black drove the juvenile to and from hotels, where she performed the prearranged acts of prostitution. Black further admitted that he received all of the proceeds the juvenile received in exchange for acts of prostitution. http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3510&Itemid=1
United States US
The FBI and local law enforcement agents orchestrated a nationwide sting. Undercover cops posed as Jons and arrested prostitutes soliciting sex at bars/nightclubs, casinos, truck stops, and Internet sites such as Craig’s list. The sting operations were used to determine whether or not the girls were less than 18 years of age. If so, they were taken into custody and treated as a trafficking victim. In Oakland, California 5 arrests were made at the Hilton Hotel where Police Solicited sex from prostitution ads they found on Craig's list. Those arrested could face federal or state charges based on their allegations but they are still awaiting trial.
United States US
-SF operation allegedly run by Young Joon Yang, who lived in Beverly Hills. Allegedly used YJY Travel and Tour, a travel agency in the city (3001 Geary Blvd), to bring in women from Korea, and Yang's Taxi, a cab company, to transport them. Prostitutes were also flown to work in Las Vegas, Dallas, New York, and Boston. -Other major players: Wu Sang Nah (aka Kang Nah), Sung Yong Kim (aka Nam Kim), Myong Su Ahn (Paula Lee), Nam Young Lee. -Some evidence that ringleaders for SF and Southern California were communicating with each other and sharing girls. -Targeted women from impoverished areas of South Korea, offering them jobs as waitresses & bar hostesses in America, and charging them fees that they would then have to pay off. -King's Massage Parlor (315 Jessie Street, SF) Allegedly ran by Fred A. Frazier. Building owned by Ahdi M. Nashashibi, who was also charged. This was a major outpost in the operations; many prostitutes arrived there first before being moved elsewhere. -Golden Flower Steam & Sauna Spa (215 Second Street, SF) Allegedly ran by Anthony Gar Lau, who pleaded guilty in 2007 and was sentenced to one year in prison. Also ordered to forfeit $1M in profits from the spa and two years of supervised release after his prison term. -House on Knollwood Drive, Saratoga Operated by Keun Sung Lee. -Sun Spa (Geary Blvd, SF) and Acucare Oriental Spa (Emeryville) also involved
United States US
She was arrested as a perpetrator of prostitution as a juvenile then went through these systems: Alameda County Probation and Juvenile Justice Court. The TVPA passed in the year 2000 declares that all underage victims who are prostituted are trafficking victims.
United States US
Victim is 16 yr old girl on probation under the care of a temporary guardian after a history of sexual exploitation. Minor was on probation for charges and arrests associated with prostitution. Her guardian requested her release to service provider.
United States US
Victim was arrested for prostitution after being run by at least two pimps and referred to service provider. She had on and off involvement with pimps and drug dealing before becoming fully immersed in service provider programs. Finally, picked up by a sweep operation in San Pablo and taken to juvenile hall.