Sex Trafficking2007
United States US
The man's arrest was part of an ongoing effort of Everett police to combat prostitution. One officer was quoted, "We're attacking it from all angles - from the johns to the prostitutes to the pimps." Undercover officers had set up several sting operations to arrest people selling and buying sex. They've also used Craigslist to nab customers and prostitutes. The man arrested came to the detectives attention in March after a woman reported seeing her daughter's picture in Craigslist and an advertisement that indicated that she was selling sex. The mother said her daughter was being "pimped out and tht the man assaulted her daughter and refused to let her visit with her family according to the search warrant. In July the police heard from another concerned mother who told them that her daughter was being held against her will in a south Everett apartment. Detectives found the woman, who told them the Everett man bought her for $250 and she worked for him as a prostitute at a Lynwood motel. She told them she gave the man all the money she made. Both women told police they were afraid of the man, who carried a pistol and beat and assaulted them. Everett police last month searched two apartments and seized computers, drug paraphenalia and about $2,000 in cash. They continue to investigate.
CSEC2007
United States
20-year-old coerced 14-year-old into running away introduced her to drugs and forced her into prostitution Accused: Sandra Panecka age 20.
Sex Trafficking2007
United States US
Lloyd Mack Royal III, also known as “Blyss”, “B”, and “Furious” is a 29 year old male who, "preyed upon vulnerable minors and prostituted them by a variety of deplorable means for his own benefit” (Maryland Human Trafficking Task Force). He was convicted on March 24, 2010 of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking; sex trafficking of a minor; sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence; conspiracy to distribute drugs; and distribution of drugs to persons under 21, related to a scheme to prostitute three minor females.
CSEC2007
United States US
Using drugs and fake friendships, seven Varrio Central gang members, ages 15-19, lured runaways and other underage girls with troubled families into a prostitution ring, which operated out of a Glen Garden Drive apartment complex. The victims, some as young as 12 years old, were forced to perform sexual services for $50. If a girl declined, she was beat, raped, and her family threatened. A fifteen year-old girl also allegedly recruited the victims by going to their homes, posing as their friend, and pretending to pick them up to go to the movies or shopping.
CSEC2007
United States US
Paul Raymond Green, a/k/a “PJ,” age 23, of Washington, D.C., arranged on two separate occasions to provide minor victims to an acquaintance of Green’s who was paying to have sex with the victims. On both occasions “dippers” or “wets” (cigarettes dipped in phencyclidine liquid known as PCP), were available in the hotel room where the girls were brought to have sex. Green also sold cocaine to that same individual.
Forced Criminality2007
United States US
The FBI obtained 2 search warrants in November 2007 and February 2008 and searched Hoffman's residence and found the images on his computer and charged him with child exploitation and trafficking sexually explicit photos via the internet. He had 70 sex related charges filed against him. His wife was also arrested for tampering with the evidence. She had known since 2005 and had concealed the evidence and let him continue to care for the kids. She was released on probation but had her custody removed and Mark Hoffman was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2009.
Sex Trafficking2007
South Korea KR
3 adults forced a 14-yr old runaway into prostitution, forcing her to have sex with over 800 males. The child was locked in a hotel room for 6 months and forced to perform sexual acts on more than 5 males a day. The traffickers charged 100,000 to 200,000 KRW to each male, making over 120 milion KRW from the child The child did not get any of the money. The three people beat her up and burned the back of her hand with cigarettes whenever she begged them to let her go home, according to the police. The police were able to arrest the perpetrators when they tried to kidnap the victim after she escaped her captors.
Forced Labor2007
United States US
Cesar Navarrete and Geovanni Navarrete beat, threatened, and restrained Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants, forcing them to work as agricultural laborers. The farms were located in Flordia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The victims were underpaid, and continually mounted escalating debts, and were physically threatened if they tried to leave before their debt had been paid off. At the time of investigation, the family was holding 15 workers on the property. The Navarretes initially brought the workers to the U.S. to work picking the produce in their fields.
Forced Labor2007
China CN
Chinese law enforcement cracked down on the practice and promised more investigation into forced labor throughout the country.
Sex Trafficking2007
South Africa ZA
Police intervened."This comes after a complainant opened a case of abduction earlier in the day. It is alleged that the couple abducted a 19-year-old female who was brought to South Africa from Zimbabwe about a week ago under the pretext that she was going to be employed," said Xaba. The couple then demanded R1800 ransom money from the woman's brother. "An arrangement was made with the suspects to meet at a nearby shopping centre where a ransom was to be paid," said Xaba. But the police pounced on the couple and arrested them.
Sex Trafficking2007
India IN
the perpetrators were arrested by the Criminal Investigation Department on 2/16/07. On May 3, 2010 the two men and one woman traffickers were sentenced to 10 years in prison for t he trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of three minor girls. The girls who were 12, 14 and 16 years of age had been lured by the traffickers from their rural villages in Nepal and W. Bengal with the prospect of legitimate work in Kilkata. Instead they were sold to the traffickers who forced them into having sex with as many as 12 customers per day.
Sex Trafficking2007
United States US
Federal agents and Las Vegas police officers arrested six persons believed to have been illegally operating bordellos in Clark County. Officials seized 3,500 tabs of Ecstasy, $20,000 in cash, and detained 25 mostly non-English speaking Asian females during the raid. Agents and officers are investigating whether any of the female detainees are underage or if they were forced into prostitution.
CSEC2007
United Kingdom GB
-Police arrested the defendants on various dates between Dec 2007 and May 2008. -a Turkish national and naturalised British citizen pleaded guilty on 22nd of September to two counts of controlling a brothel. He was given nine years for trafficking within the United Kingdom for sexual exploitation, to be served consecutively with five years for controlling prostitution for gain; five years for controlling a child prostitute; four years for the first count of controlling a brothel for the use of prostitution; four years for the second count of controlling a brothel for the use of prostitution, leading to total imprisonment of 14 years. -a Slovakian national, was found guilty of trafficking into the UK. He was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. -a Czech Republic national, was found guilty of trafficking into the UK for sexual exploitation. He was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. -a Kosovon national, was found guilty and sentenced to 11 years for trafficking within the UK and five years, to be served concurrently, for controlling a child prostitute. -another Turkish national was found guilty on 3.11.08 and sentenced to two and a half years for controlling a child prostitute, and 15 months, to be served concurrently, for controlling a brothel for the use of prostitution. -an Albanian national was found guilty and sentenced on 4.11.08 to three years for controlling a prostitute for gain. Charges of unlawful wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm will lie on file.
Forced Labor2007
China CN
A Chinese woman coerced three of her friends to come to Macau with her from mainland China, putting them in a slave-labor position and cheating them out of $9,000 in the process.
CSEC2007
United States US
In 2007, a security guard at a Miami middle school, was indicted. The security guard met his 14-year-old victim through one of the students at the school. He began a sexual relationship and eventually forced the victim to sell her body. The victim remained under the security guard’s control until the day prior to his arrest, when the victim's mother located her and the victim returned home.
Sex Trafficking2007
United States US
From April to December 2007, Craig Kraft and Liqing Liu operated a prostitution business. The location changed constantly which included motels in Bloomington, Golden Valley, Plymouth, and Minneapolis. The office for the business was located in St. Louis Park. Women were rotated to work in the brothel, and Liu arranged for the victims to travel to MN from California, New York, and Texas.
Sex Trafficking2007
United States US
Daniel McNeal, A 36-year-old Minneapolis man, who also goes by the names of “Diamond” and “Daddy,” has a long criminal history, including assault, aggravated robbery and prostitution-related offenses. He is also recognized as a criminal sex offender in connection with a 2001 conviction in Texas for enticement to travel in interstate commerce for the purpose of prostitution. Trafficked individual across several state lines, including Iowa, Texas and South Carolina. McNeal was sentenced to 293 months in federal prison.
Sex Trafficking2007
Canada CA
According to Court records, the female victim met Mr. St. Vil while participating in an album cover photo shoot for his employer in Montreal. She and Mr. St. Vil started a relationship shortly after meeting and then moved from Montreal to Mississauga, Ontario, where she started working as an exotic dancer and, later, as a prostitute. Mr. St. Vil was violent toward her and she was too frightened to contact police for three months. During this time, the victim gave $20,000 earned from prostitution in Ontario and the United States to Mr. St. Vil. While visiting Montreal around April 22, 2007, the victim contacted the police and Mr. St. Vil was arrested upon his arrival in the city.
CSEC2007
Moldova MD
Defendant(Anthony Mark Bianchi) was first taken into federal custody in this matter on January 11, 2006. The initial Indictment, filed on January 12, 2006, charged him with various offenses arising out of his travel to Eastern Europe, where he allegedly had illicit sexual relations with two underage boys and attempted to seduce a third. According to the Indictment, Defendant’s modus operandi was to have his co-conspirator and translator, Ion Gusin, introduce him to the boys. He would shower them with gifts and treats to induce them to engage in illicit sexual relations and then compensate them in United States dollars.
Domestic Servitude2007
United States US
Dunkin' Donuts employees in Syosset notified the police of a middle aged women who was present and wearing only pants and a towel and had a beaten in face. Immigration officials searched the house and found another housekeeper hiding in a closet. The two slaves confessed to being tortured, beaten, and starved. They were also beaten with brooms and umbrellas, cut with knives and forced to climb stairs and to take freezing cold showers for misdeeds like oversleeping or stealing food from the trash since they were not fed well.
Forced Criminality2007
Mozambique MZ
http://www.ldh.org.mz/index.php/en/projects-and-research/trafficking-body-parts The LDH (Liga Moçambicana dos Direitos Humanos or Human Right’s League, Mozambique) conducted an interview in Nampula City with the family of a victim. The victim, “Mary” disappeared on a Friday in March, 2007. Her family found her uniform and scarf hanging on a shrub and discovered her body in the bushes nearby. The body was severely mutilated and had started decaying. It is believed the killers grabbed her while she was walking on the road, carried her about 300 meters inside the bushes, cut her throat, opened her stomach and took her genital organs, eyes, heart, tongue and breasts. The family has no opinion about the motives for this murder. Excerpt from the Interview: LDH1: And afterwards, did you have any information about the person that did that, was he or she caught?? Victim’s Brother-in-Law: We had no information.
Forced Labor2007
India IN
Sub contractors of the large multinational corporation GAP were discovered forcing children as young as 10 years old to work 16 hour days, making garments for the GAP Christmas sale. Children were rounded up in villages when the traffickers promised parents payment that would allow them to quit work in the fields if they would sell their sons to go to the city to work, where they would "receive educations and learn to become men." Children that cried or showed any sign of slowing down in their work were beaten with rubber pipes and had oily rags shoved in their mouths.
CSEC2007
United States US
The defendants in this case allegedly courted girls as young as 17 from Mexico, smuggled them into the United States under pretense and eventually conspired to transport them across state lines for the purposes of prostitution. According to federal Criminal Indictment NO. 1:08-CR-317-CC, five women were smuggled into the US, harbored as aliens, and had hidden from them the fact that they would be prostituted to repay the group for smuggling fees and other expenses. The indictment states that the Rugerios and Hernandez "targeted young, vulnerable women and teenagers with limited resources, and used violence, sexual assaults, threats of violence, threats of violence to family members, and threats of deportation and imprisonment, to compel the victims to engage in prostitution."
Bonded Labor2007
United States US
Over the course of five days, the jury heard evidence from four victims and several other former employees who worked at the Farrell's hotel. The witnesses testified that they were brought into the United States from the Philippines to work under an agreement that promised the Farrells would pay them more than minimum wage for 40 hours of work per week. The victims hoped to earn money to send to their families in the Philippines. According to trial testimony, once the victims arrived in South Dakota, the Farrells confiscated their visas and passports, made them sign inflated and ever-increasing debt contracts, and held them to work around the clock. Witnesses described working from early morning until midnight, then being forced to attend meetings at the hotel during which the Farrells threatened the victims with violence and berated them about their debts and the quality of their work. These late night meetings sometimes lasted as long as six hours. One worker testified that she went without sleep for three days in a row. A U.S. Department of Labor investigator told the jury that he discovered records that indicated one Filipino worker worked as many as 160 hours in a week at the hotel. When not at the hotel, as many as nine Filipino workers were housed in a nearby two-bedroom apartment rented by the Farrells. According to testimony, the Farrells paid the victims almost nothing. To make payroll records look legitimate, the Farrells handed workers paychecks for them to endorse but immediately took the checks back and deposited them into their own hotel bank account.