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United States US
Homaidan Al-Turki, 36, and his wife, Sarah Khonaizan, 35, are now in jail in Arapahoe County, facing both federal and state charges that they kept an Indonesian woman in her early 20s as a virtual slave for four years
China CN
An outstanding student at a computer vocational school, Zhang, took her fellow classmates out for dinner while they were interning at a factory in Bazhong. Zhang then took the 10 girls to a town close by, Qiandong, and sold them over to Wang and Xie. Xie and Wang are notorious sex traffickers in Qiandong, where they operated a brothel in a residential area. They took all of the girls' money and possessions, coerced them into prostitution with violence and threats.
United Kingdom GB
Carl Pritchett owned Cuddles Massage Parlous in Bearwood, and ran the establishment with two associates: Susan Richards, who managed the brothel, and Nathan Langston, who worked maintenance. The victims were held at a nearby house during the day, and taken to Cuddles each evening. The massage parlor is located on Hagley Road, near the center of Birmingham. The victims had their passports and other travel documents taken from them. Cuddles had 12 rooms, an electric fence at the back of the building, and several of the windows were boarded.
China CN
Jennifer was interned at a women's prison in China for a long period of time. Like many in the laojing system, she was forced to work horrendous hours making a number of products. These ranged from sweaters to a very detailed description of work related to a stuffed rabbit. Some of the other items were disposable syringes, toys, and chopsticks. The women also did miscellaneous labor tasks such as ditch digging and stores transport and storage. Especially with wares like the rabbit, the women would work from 5AM to 2 or 3 AM the next morning. Assembling and stitching a single stuffed rabbit could take nearly 10 hours to complete. If the women fell behind, there were consequences. Note: All of the above information is a synopsis of the passages related to this slave in the book "To Plead Our Own Cause" by Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd. Book published 2008 by Cornell University Press.
China CN
Bin, along with other prisoners, was forced to make a host of goods sold in the west as a slave laborer in Chinese prisons. These included quite a few popular Christmas items such as lights and holiday clothing. Bin was forced to make lights. He noted that many of the prisoners who were not sentenced to death ended up at labor camps like this having been raped and beaten at other camps/prisons. Those individuals came to the labor camp with a host of health issues including blood-related and sexually-transmitted diseases. From his own words: "Every day, prisoners were supposed to tie copper wires tightly around a plastic tank in a fixed shape and then connect all the bulbs together. The prisoners' hands were usually bleeding. Needless to say, their diseased skin and sexually-transmitted diseases were left on the light bulbs." Note: All of the above information is a synopsis of the passages related to this slave in the book "To Plead Our Own Cause" by Kevin Bales and Zoe Trodd. Book published 2008 by Cornell University Press.
Togo TG
The victim's father was approached by a woman who offered the daughter a job caring for a child for a family in Lome. She did not mention payment, but the father agreed anyway, sending the daughter with the woman in a taxi to the city. For four months she lived and worked in a house in Lome cleaning, washing, and selling juice on the street in addition to watching the child. If she did not sell enough juice or did not finish all her housework, she was beaten with a stick or locked out of the house to sleep outside. She escaped that house and met some children on the street who spoke her language. They took her a woman who said she needed help selling her rice. The victim agreed, but after four days realized she was being abused there, too. She told her employer she wanted to leave and was brought to the police station. They informed a local NGO and arranged for her to go to the Oasis Center at Lome. After 7 days at the center, her father found her there and took her back home to Aouda.
Ukraine UA
Victim's (Elena) neighbor spoke to her about a man who offered to pay her 1,000 Euros monthly, for a work as house keeper in Germany. After a prolonged and clandestine passage that included a trip in a luxury automobile to leave Ukraine, she was forced to cross a forest on foot at night and to cross a river in a weakened boat. Elena was finally in Germany, but not working as a house keeper, instead she found herself in a brothel next to her friend and being forced to maintain sexual relations with dozens of men.
United States US
Four women--Chae Sun Leonard, Kim Freeman, Sayjai Wilson and Han Son Yi--The sources say they placed ads in local papers. Customers paid $60 at the front door and once inside, they could shell out hundreds more for sex. They say rank-and-file workers, like Atchariya Poosara and Rayvadee Koumphkand, were flown in from locations around the country. Although sources say they came willingly, they were locked inside the businesses for weeks at a time, generating revenue and promoting illegal activity. Detectives are now working to find yet another woman believed to have played a critical role in financing the operation. They hope her arrest will shut this enterprise down for good. were arrested in the bust of two massage parlors--the Oasis Health Club is in another report, this report is on the bust of Jade Clinic. The women face charges of prostitution soliciting and promoting prostitution.
Belize BZ
-Walter Swazo: 24 year old male/ Honduran national. Common law husband of Celia Garcia (Co-trafficker with sister of victim) -Celia Garcia: 21 year old female/ Belizean national. Sister of victim (Co-trafficker with Walter Swazo) -Juan Santos Martinez: Salvadoran national. Purchased victim as personal sex slave Both Garcia and Swazo "sold" the victim (younger sister of Garcia) to Salvadoran national Juan Santos Martinez for an undisclosed price in Northern Belize. Once purchased the victim was transported through Guatemala into El Salvador as a sex slave/teenage bride to Martinez.
United States US
Sung Bum Chang, owner of the Dallas club “Club Wa,” help club workers in conditions of forced labor at the karaoke club located on Walnut Hill Lane (Dallas) from December 2004 to April 26, 2005. Chang used a network that recruited women from South Korea to come to the U.S. with the promise of good jobs. Chang paid the victims’ smuggling fees, and confiscated their passports, telling them they could not leave until they had returned the money they owed him. They victims were held in the top floor of Chang’s home, and kept under constant surveillance and guard. The women would also be fined if they violated Chang’s “rules.” The victims worked as hostess in Club Wa, sitting with and entertaining customers, and encouraging them to buy more alcohol. Chang kept records of their earnings, and adjusted their debt accordingly, also including the price of their rent and food.
United States US
Young Jo Kwon and his wife Jessie, owners of Osaka Sushi in Denver, Colorado were accused of forcing two South Korean immigrants to work without pay. They have also been linked to the Korean mafia. The two withheld payment from the workers and threatened to get rid of their greencards and have them deported if they tried to escape.
United States US
Nine people worked to traffic Eastern European women to work as exotic dancers in Detroit-area strip clubs. Michail Aronov is believed to be the leader of the operation. The group used the business Beauty Search, Inc. as a cover to recruit women. The victims were then smuggled into the U.S. and forced to work as dancers in the clubs. The business partners referred to their plan for intimidation as “The System.” This involved taking the victims’ passports, imposing debts and monetary penalties, enforcing strict rules, and physical and verbal violence and threats. They also threatened to expose the victims as illegal immigrants. An escaped victim’s car was firebombed and used as a threat to others as the consequences of escape.
United States US
Between 2001 and 2005, a ring operating as Beauty Search Inc. recruited women in Ukraine, smuggled them into the US, in some cases through Mexico, and compelled them to work in Detroit-area exotic dance clubs for the ring's profit.
United States US
ICE agents were led to her home by a package from China that was intercepted by Customs agents in San Francisco. Inside they found a phoney Chinese Passport had been hidden in a space hollowed out of a magazine. The package was destined for a woman at SHU’s University Place home. When agents arrived at the home they found a dozen people living there, many of whom worked at SHU’s Tacoma restaurant, the Rainbow Buffet. Eight of the individuals did not have legal status to remain in the United States. Interviews of these undocumented workers also disclosed that they either had not been paid for their work, or were being paid extremely low wages.
United States US
Gray was booked on suspicion of numerous sex-related charges, including sexual assault, kidnapping, 80 counts of receiving the earnings of a prostitute, 80 counts of pandering and 42 counts of operating a house of prostitution. Butler was booked on suspicion of child prostitution, kidnapping, 25 counts of receiving the earnings of a prostitute and 50 counts of pandering.
United States US
Tamera "Danny" Flory, 40, was indicted on one count of engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and 142 counts of promoting prostitution. This is the largest indictment involving prostitution in Franklin County, covering a period of seven years and five business entities.
United States US
U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway on June 22 also ordered the South Korean businessman to pay $1.8 million in restitution to about 300 Vietnamese and Chinese nationals who were lured to the U.S. archipelago in the South Pacific to earn what they thought would be a steady stream of dollars. But instead of stitching clothing for U.S. manufacturers and retailers in humane conditions at the factory, the workers endured abuse, threats, lack of food and pay, confinement, sexual advances and unsanitary and stifling-hot dorms. The Vietnamese workers paid up to $8,000 per person to Vietnamese government labor export offices for the opportunity and documents to work at Lee's factory, which operated from 1998 to 2001. Yesterday, the Lynnwood resident said he is concerned about 90 workers who suffered abuse at the garment factory but who were later sent back to Vietnam. Many, he said, have lost their homes to loan sharks who lent them money at high interest rates to go abroad. The loan sharks, he added, also are harassing the repatriated workers for money owed. "I was thinking more about the victims in Vietnam," he said. "I knew (Lee) was going to jail. He deserved to go to jail. The length of time didn't concern me that much."
United States US
Wan Yo Kang, 37, also known as "Hannah," was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday on 11 felony counts of traveling across state lines to promote or manage prostitution activity in February 2005, enticing women to travel interstate to engage in prostitution and harboring two immigrants here illegally at her business, 350 Ward Ave., suite 115.
United States US
Maximino "Chimino" Mondragon and 8 other traffickers worked with Walter Alexander Corea and his son Kerin Silva to smuggle over 120 women, mostly from Central America, into the Houston area and force them to work in brothels. Lorenza Reyes-Nunez, aka "La Comadre," was involved in the trafficking and forced abortions upon women who became pregnant. The others involved include Maximino Mondragon's brother Oscar Mondragon, half brother Victor Omar Lopez and the wives or ex-wives of the Mondragon brothers, Olga Mondragon and Maria Fuentes. They are from El Salvador and Honduras.
United States US
Six men were accused in a federal indictment unsealed Thursday of forcing teenage girls as young as 15 to work as prostitutes, taking them to several states and Bermuda. The charges against Darryl Tavares, 24, of Revere, and two Boston men, Shaun Leoney, 26, and Ruben Porcher, 29, include sex trafficking of children and conspiracy to transport minors across state lines for prostitution. Trueheart Peeples, 30, of Portland, Maine; Eddie Jones, 25, of Boston; and Aaron Brooks, 23, of Quincy are charged with conspiracy to transport minors across state lines for prostitution and other crimes. Prosecutors say the Boston-based group operated from 2001 to 2005 in Massachusetts, Maine, New York, New Jersey, New Hampshire, Florida and Pennsylvania. One of the girls was 15 when Porcher took her to Bermuda for prostitution, according to the indictment. The indictment alleges some members of the group had ties to a network of sex traffickers and met with them in New York City in May 2005 for a "toss-up" event, where pimps trade prostitutes. Leoney and Brooks are accused of driving a teenager to Orlando, Fla., on Memorial Day weekend of 2005 for prostitution activity sponsored by Hoodlum Entertainment, a company owned by two convicted sex traffickers. The indictment alleges that that girl, who was 17, also had worked for Jones and Tavares, and was assaulted at different times when she angered the two men. In April 2005, the indictment alleges, when Tavares believed she had given some of her prostitution earnings to Jones, Tavares and an associate assaulted her. Tavares allegedly instructed the associate to rape her with a hair brush. In early May, she began working for Jones, who kicked in her teeth for talking on her "work" cell phone with a man who was not a prostitution client, according to the indictment. After he disfigured her mouth, the indictment said, Jones "gave" her back to Tavares.
Jordan JO
The Al Shahaed Apparel and Textile company, which supplies garments for Walmart and Kohls, trafficked 115 workers from Bangladesh to work in its factory. The workers were recruited through a contractor in Bangladesh, called Golden View International. In order to pay for their expensive three year contracts of 90,000 to 200,000 taka, or $1,327 to $2,950, the workers had to borrow money where the interest rate is 5% per month. The workers were promised to earn at least $120 a month and that food, lodging, and health care would be free, none of which turned out to be true. Upon arrival their passports were confiscated. If the workers left the factory without their proper identification, they ran the risk of being caught by the police and deported. The workers worked between 38-72 hours per week, where paid 2 cents per hour. The minimum shift was `15 hours with sometimes only 3 hours between shifts. The factory owner hired gang members to terrorize the workers by beating them if they were not concentrating on their work. All 115 Bangladeshi guest workers were housed in one small four room building, located in an isolated area, about five miles from the Al Hassan Industrial Estate. There was no heating and water was available only every third day. 115 men had to share only 6 toilets. The food was insufficient, the portions were poor, and often made the workers sick. There was no public transportation and the workers would have to walk five miles to make a phone call home to their families in Bangladesh.
Indonesia ID
Children from rural and poor communities were recruited to work as domestic workers in cities, sometimes with false promises of schooling and higher wages. Some children were denied schooling, worked extremely long hours, had wages withheld or unpaid, and were prevented from leaving their employers’ homes.
United States US
With the arrest of two NYPD officers accused of accepting payoffs in cash, drinks, and prostitution services in exchange for raiding competing brothels, authorities are focusing on the extent of the brothel problem in Queens. Last week, the F.B.I., the police, the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn, and Immigration and Customs agents announced the arrests of NYPD officers, Jerry Svoronos, and Dennis Kim who were assigned to the 109th Precinct, on charges of taking payoffs, both monetary and in trade, to allow the Asian brothel to flourish and protect the owners from competition. Officers Dennis Kim and Jerry Svoronos were arrested along with alleged brothel operators Gina Kim and Geeho Chae following a 10-month investigation. According to U.S. Assistant Attorney Steven H. Breslow, $800,000 in cash was found in the search of the homes and cars of Kim and Chae. On June 20, 2008, a judge delayed the sentencing of Kim after prosecutors dropped new allegations of police corruption in a Queens precinct. Ex-NYPD Officer Dennis Kim and his partner admitted accepting cash and sexual favors from a pimp in return for protecting a brothel in Flushing. Now, the churchgoing Kim could face significantly more jail time because of claims from an informant that he and other cops in the 109th Precinct planted drugs on suspects and stole cash during gambling raids.
United States US
Victim’s cousin with the help of 2 detectives from the Florida human trafficking unit contacted Ponce-Moya and set up a place in Lee County for a financial quid pro quo to occur. FBI agents traced phone calls back to the trailer where victim was being held and monitored Ponce-Moya. After several phone calls Ponce-Moya agreed to meet the victims cousin to exchange the victim for 2,600 dollars in cash. FBI agents followed Ponce-Moya from his trailer and he was apprehended at a convenience store south of Jennings. He had the victim and 4 family members in his car.