San Mateo, CA, United States
Xiao Feng Shen, 35, of San Jose, Jia Jing Chu, 34, of San Jose, Ai-Ching Chang, 45, of Sunnyvale, Yan Song, 42, of San Jose, and Ming Sun, 32, of San Jose plead guilty to maintaining several residential brothels harboring Asian women who were being sold for sex.
Location
United States · San Mateo, CA · 2006 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
After federal raids last October, officials detained 31 women and interviewed them to determine if they were sex trafficking victims forced to work against their will.
Federal investigators from Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Internal Revenue Service discovered the ringleaders.
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