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Sex Trafficking in Valparaiso, Indiana (2010)

A sex trafficking case from 2010 in Valparaiso, Indiana, United States.

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Documented on the original SlaveryMap (2008–2016). We don’t have a verifiable source on file yet. Know one?

What happened

Police sent undercover officers into the spa as clients. According to the report, the officers were offered sexual acts if they paid. Police also found advertisements for the business online, although it wasn't clear that the advertisements were for sexual acts. Arrested were Min Ye, 37, and Wendy Yao, no age given. No charges have been filed.

Response and intervention

A massage business that city officials had warned they would be watching was raided Wednesday. Two women were arrested, accused of offering sexual acts for money.

Sex Trafficking2009

Chesterton, Indiana, United States, 2009

United States US

Justin Cephus, 31, Stanton Cephus, 28, and Jovan Stewart, 30, all of Hammond, Haneef Jackson-Bey, 20, of East Chicago, and Delbert Patterson, 19, of Steger, Ill., have been charged with conspiring to commit and committing sex trafficking and prostitution violations involving 16 minor and young-adult females. From approximately February 2006 until January 2009, the defendants, led by Justin Cephus, who is charged in each of the 21 counts, ran a prostitution business out of his home and various other locations in and around Hammond,” the statement said. “The business, which advertised in the Yellow Pages in Illinois and Indiana under the names ‘Beauty Escorts,’ ‘Beautiful Entertainment,’ and ‘The Finest and the Best,’ provided sexual services to callers from Northwest Indiana and the Chicago, Ill., area.” “Defendants used a variety of tactics to recruit girls and keep them working for the business, according to the indictment, including handing out business cards to pretty girls at retail outlets and telling them that the business involved ‘promotions,’ ‘modeling,’ ‘house cleaning,’ ‘private dancing,’ or ‘massage therapy,’” the statement said. * Source: http://chestertontribune.com/PoliceFireEmergency/7893%20fbi_seeks_info_in_sex_traffickin.htm (Retrieved 7/20/09)

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CSEC2009

Michigan City, Indiana, United States, 2009

United States US

Male, 45, from Michigan City, IN Trafficker apprehended & in federal custody Transporting children across state lines for purpose of sex Enticing minors to engage in sexually explicit conduct for purpose of videoing it Child exploitation Sources: http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/articles/080515southbend1.htm http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/0906/090626southbend.htm

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CSEC2009

Roselawn, Indiana, United States, 2009

United States US

The accused was charged in 1985 with molesting a teen-age girl. He operated Naked City near Roselawn, IN from 1968 to 1986. On March 24, 1986, he agreed to plea guilty to ten sex-related misdemeanors and was given a suspended sentence. He had previously pleaded guilty to obscenity charges in 1982 but according to John Casey, an attorney for Newton County. He later owned and operated a nudist colony, Naked City West, in southern CA. There, he was arrested in 1990 on five felony and four misdemeanor charges including procurring a minor by false inducement for lewd acts and procurement by false inducement for prostitution. In a plea bargain, 28 charges against him from years before were dropped and he pleaded guilty to distribution or exhibition of lewd materials to a minor. He was sentenced up to one year in Riverside County Jail and was to be on probation for five years, fined up to $5000 and have no contact with children or youth other than those whose parents gave permission for such contact, not be permitted to use pornographic materials, and be listed as a sex offender. Male, uses a wheelchair because he suffers from muscular dystrophy 57 in 1990 Formerly of Chicago Ran nudist camps in Newton County, IN and in southern CA Drost’s lawyer blamed his conviction on an attempt to enforce a particular fundamentalist point of view and thereby establish a religion, and sued Newton County, IN for $50 Million and the State of Indiana for $1 billion for alleged violation of his civil rights and similar charges. Agreed to stay out of IN for 10 years Currently lives in Homeland, Riverside County, CA Listed on American Sunbathers’ “Caution List” since 1986 Edits review of national nudist camps & “swing clubs” in the US Acquired “Club Zoro” (founded in 1933 by Chicago lawyer Alois Knapp) from his parents who purchased the club soon after World War II Has there been intervention? Originator of Miss Nude America Contest which was also filmed in 1975 Put in contracts for “Miss Nude America” contest that participants must be willing to sleep with him & meet his every need Originator of Miss Nude Teeny Bopper Universe Contest Sources: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Drost.html http://ontheslowtrain.blogspot.com/2007/05/dark-side-of-naked-city.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roselawn,_Indiana http://www.revengeismydestiny.com/cult_movies_hot_100_page_3.html(Some of the articles incorrectly say Roselawn, IL instead of IN which is correct.)

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