Domestic Servitude2025
United States US
According to a federal indictment, a mother and daughter in Carolina, Puerto Rico, used beatings, threats, restraint and isolation to force an intellectually disabled woman to panhandle, commit fraud and do domestic labor in their home, at times locking her overnight in a space formerly used to house goats and roosters, and took her Social Security disability benefits.
CSEC2006
United States US
An investigation revealed that a girl had been transported by "D-LO" from Detroit to South Florida for the purpose of prostitution. At trial, the victim testified that she was physically assaulted by the defendant and was forced to work as a prostitute at various locations in Miami-Dade and Broward counties. After a physical altercation with "D-LO," in which he placed a revolver in the mouth of the minor victim, "D-LO" passed off the girl to another pimp named "Snake," who admitted at his plea hearing that he coerced the victim into performing commercial sex acts by "slapping her around.
CSEC2008
United States US
In November 2008, federal prosecutors charged five people with sex trafficking. The victims included young girls as young as 14 who were smuggled from Mexico and forced into prostitution in various homes and brothels in Miami-Dade County and across South Florida. They were beaten and kept in “stash houses” where they were imprisoned until being shipped out to private homes.