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United States US
The FBI and local law enforcement agents orchestrated a nationwide sting. Undercover cops posed as Jons and arrested prostitutes soliciting sex at bars/nightclubs, casinos, truck stops, and Internet sites such as Craig’s list. The sting operations were used to determine whether or not the girls were less than 18 years of age. If so, they were taken into custody and treated as a trafficking victim
United States US
The operation involved local law enforcement in 29 cities across the country working with the FBI, the U.S. Department of Justice and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Houston police Officers Emma Rodriguez and Catherine Clogher, of Juvenile Division's sex crimes unit, helped arrest the two local men accused of being pimps to three teenage girls.
United States US
Jacobo Dominguez Vazquez, Jose Luis Chavez, and Braulio Anceto Velez trafficked a 13-year old Mexican girl to the United States specifically for prostitution. She was brought to Jackson, Wyoming in March 2004 with the promise of a better life in the United States. After her arrival, the traffickers told her she would be forced to have sex for money, in order to pay her smuggling fee. The men then solicited business for the girl, keeping all the profits and operating out of local motels in March and April, 2004. The men charged $80 to $100 for each sex act. On April 18, 2004, a customer complained about the price, and called the police. The three men, along with a fourth suspect, Armando Salas, left Jackson with the victim for Phoenix, AZ. Eight months later they returned to Jackson.
United States US
Allen Brown, aka "Prince", age 47 funded a lavish lifestyle by running a trafficking ring for almost two decades. He recruited women all over N.J. from Camden and Philadelphia to Atlantic City to Jersey City, where he lived. He enticed women with promises of money and a better life.The women had their cell phones and identification taken and were locked inside houses or apartments and not allowed to leave or contact others on the outside. Brown had anywhere from 2 - 20 women working for him each night since 1990, forcing them to bring in a set amount of cash each day, usually from $500-$1000. If the women didn't meet his demands, they were sometimes beaten or denied the drugs he kept many addicted to. Six others were also indicted for helping run the ring or for laundering money. Some of these were Brown's relatives, including his mother, niece and nephew. Annie Cooper, 41, of Jersey City, pleaed guilty last month to first-degree racketering. Officers say she acted as the women's boss, enforcing Brown's house rules.
United States US
Steven Lorenzo J. Leonard, 23, befriended and coerced a 12-year-old girl into prostitution. The girl told police that a mutual friend introduced her to Leonard on Jan. 9 and he invited her to hang out, then had unprotected sex with her that night and several times in the ensuing days. The two stayed at the homes of several women who described themselves as his fiancees. Leonard also made the girl walk the street in downtown Seattle, performing tricks (sexual acts) for "johns," then made her turn over the money to Leonard, her new pimp. Steven Leonard has an extensive record; he has been convicted of escape, possessing stolen property, theft, obstructing a public officer and animal cruelty.
United States US
The FBI and local law enforcement agents orchestrated a nationwide sting. Undercover cops posed as Jons and arrested prostitutes soliciting sex at bars/nightclubs, casinos, truck stops, and Internet sites such as Craig’s list. The sting operations were used to determine whether or not the girls were less than 18 years of age. If so, they were taken into custody and treated as a trafficking victim. Those arrested could face federal or state charges based on their allegations but they are still awaiting trial.
Peru PE
Police (DININCRI) is investigating the incident of a 13 year old girl who was raped and strangled in a parking lot. Details of the investigation show that the case is connected with sex trafficking.
United States US
According to United States Attorney Nahmias and the information presented in court: FARLEY approached an undercover agent in an online chat room and began talking about engaging in sex with the agent's 10 year-old daughter. (There was no actual child.) Over the course of several months, he continued to ask about having sex with the child, and suggested that the undercover agent molest the child first to "get her prepared" for him. The defendant made arrangements to meet the agent and the child at a local restaurant on May 15, 2007. After dinner, the defendant planned to go to the agent's house and molest the child. FARLEY was arrested as soon as his plane landed in Atlanta. He had a laptop computer with him which contained approximately 100 images of child pornography.
United States US
Winberry was arrested in Prosser, Washington after fleeing from Idaho police. His warrant was for Lewd Conduct with a Minor: Sexual Exploitation of a Child, Possession of Sexually Explicit Material and Inducing a Person under 18 into Prostitution. Winberry was being held on the warrant which has a $1,000,000 bond. Watson and McKeehan were booked into the Ada County Jail for Lewd Conduct with a Minor, Sexual Exploitation of a Child, Possession of Sexually Exploitative Material and Inducing a Person Under 18 into Prostitution. McKeehan pleaded guilty to two counts of felony injury to a child: one count of giving a teen meth, and then the second charge is for having sexual contact with a teen and letting a man watch. She also agreed to testify against Watson, her ex-boyfriend. In December of 2008, she was sentenced to 10 years in prison but will spend 6 months getting treatment in an Idaho Department of Correction Facility before the judge decides if she will serve the rest of her 10 years behind bars or be placed on probation. In November 2008, Watson and Winberry pleaded guilty. Watson pleaded guilty to charges of sex abuse of a minor under the age of 16 and felony injury to child. Winberry pleaded guilty to two charges of lewd conduct with a minor. Both could face life sentences when their sentences are decided. sources: www.idahostateman.com www.idahopress.com
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.
United States US
The trafficker has a history of sex trafficking and violent crimes, was charged in December 2006 with recruiting a 16-year-old Rogers girl into a life of prostitution and stripping jobs. On Monday, U.S. District Judge David Doty ordered McNeal to spend more than 24 years in federal prison, to be followed by a lifetime on supervised release. That made McNeal the first casualty in U.S. Attorney Rachel Paulose's year-old initiative to crack down on human trafficking.
Morocco MA
The female victim from Morocco signed a contract she couldn’t read and set off to earn money as a cleaner in Cyprus. But when she arrived, an agent told her she was going to work in a cabaret, have drinks with customers, and have sex with them if they wanted. She resisted and asked to be sent home but was told she had to repay her travel expenses first. She was raped. It was her first sexual experience. She knew if she returned to Morocco, her brother, a strict Muslim, would kill her for having sex before marriage and for damaging the family’s reputation.
New Zealand NZ
One brothel owner was sentenced to 21 months imprisonment, one was sentenced to 300 hours of community service. The secretary of the latter owner was sentenced to 180 hours of community service, and the client was sentenced to one to two years' imprisonment.
Nigeria NG
The female victim was trafficked from Nigeria through Ghana to Italy, where she was forced to have sex with more than 25 men a day. If she resisted, her “madam” would beat her with a belt, starve her, and threaten to deport her. She would rotate through Turin, Rome, and Milan, enduring mental torture and physical abuse at each base. Anita’s traffickers raped her several times, and she underwent several crude abortions. The victim survived, but some of her friends died in the ordeal.
United States US
The FBI established the Innocence Lost Initiative in 2003 to fight child sex trafficking. To date, the work of the Innocence Lost Initiative has resulted in: 265 indictments; 365 convictions on a combination of state and federal charges; 46 criminal enterprises disrupted and 36 successfully dismantled; and Substantial sentences of convicted pimps, including two life sentences and several sentences ranging in length from 30 to 40 years. Efforts have led to the recovery of 577 child victims. The most recent sting, in Northern Virginia, resulted in the rescue of 47 children, many of whom had been reported missing.
United States US
Both Sacco and O'Connor where arrested, tried, and convicted. Sacco was convicted for sex trafficking, producing child pornography, and transporting a minor over state lines for sexual acts. He was sentenced to Life in prison. O'Connor was convicted for sex trafficking and producing child pornography. She was sentenced to a minimum of 30 years in prison.
United States US
Victim was on probation and under the care of a temporary guardian after a history of sexual exploitation. Minor was on probation for charges and arrests associated with prostitution. Her guardian requested her release to service provider.
United States US
The case was investigated under the Innocence Lost National Initiative, the Department of Justice's Child Exploitation-Obscenity Section, by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, and the FBI. The US attorney's office "aggresively prosecuted" the case. The federal government was able to apply jusrisdiction to the case because the camera used to take exploitative pictures of the child had been manufactured in Korea. Federal powers also applied because of interstate commerce that took place in the motel and because of the use of the Internet.
United States US
Adam Jermaine Ingram, 20, and Kevin Roy Woods, 18, forced two Canadian girls, ages 13 and 14, to have sex with them and others as they trafficked the girls between Vancouver, Seattle and Portland. The girls were in foster homes when they were abducted by Woods and Ingram. The 13-year-old told authorities that two Americans bought her from a Vancouver man for $3,000 on Dec. 12. The FBI said the men intended to take both girls to San Diego and make them work in an escort agency. Along the way, they stopped in Bellingham and Seattle and forced the girls to have sex with them and with other men.
United States US
Jorge Carrasco Sanchez trafficked a woman to the US on April 29, 2002. Sanchez met the 16-year old victim in Ojinaga, Mexico, and brought her to the US. She was sexually assaulted by Sanchez, and he also threatened to kill her.
United States US
The girl left her home in Brooklyn on Jan. 10 and encountered someone identified only as Drama who offered to find her a job dancing at parties and introduced her to Ms. Brown, the police said. Ms. Brown told the girl that she had been “purchased” for $500 and had to work off her debt as a prostitute. She introduced Detective Taylor as her husband, the police said, although they described the couple as boyfriend and girlfriend. Detective Taylor, a 14-year-member of the Police Department assigned to the Housing Bureau, who was suspended without pay upon his arrest, set prices of $40 for oral sex and $80 for intercourse and instructed the girl to give her age as 19, investigators said. The girl was taken to a party in a barbershop, where she was forced to have sex for money that was then turned over to the suspects, the police said. That routine was repeated in the following days as the couple drove her and other prostitutes to other parties in Queens, Manhattan and Brooklyn, investigators said. At one point, the suspects complained that the girl was not earning enough money, the police said, and Ms. Brown slammed the girl’s head to the floor and other prostitutes hit her. Detective Taylor threatened the girl that if she did not earn more, he would force her into streetwalking, the police said.
United Kingdom GB
Reported 2 August 2010: Nine men convicted at Manchester Crown Court in connection with the abuse were: Aftab Khan, 31, of Tarporley Avenue, Fallowfield pleaded guilty to one count of controlling a child prostitute and one count of sexual activity with a child. He was sentenced to nine years in prison. This was later reduced to seven years on appeal Abid Khaliq, 30, of Shrewsbury Street, Stretford was sentenced to eight months in prison after admitting perverting the course of justice Noorzai Ahmed, 29, of Royce Court, Hulme was sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of paying for the sexual services of a child Mohammed Anwar Safi, 29, of no fixed address, was sentenced to 31 months in prison after admitting paying for the sexual services of a child Mohammed Khan, 26, of Royce Court, Hulme was sentenced to four years in prison after he was found guilty of facilitating child prostitution Najibullah Safi, 33, of Reabrook Avenue, West Gorton was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to sexual activity with a child Asad Yousaf Hassa, 28, of Rivington Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting two counts of sexual activity with a child Mohammed Basharat, 28, of Prospect Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child under 16 Mohammed Atif, 29, of Rivington Street, Rochdale was sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to sexual activity with a child
United States US
Marvin Chapelle Epps, 23, met 16-yr-old victim on MySpace in September 2008 and offered for her to come work for him, and victim responded. He offered to buy her bus/train ticket for her to come from Solano county to Sacramento. He was her pimp for about three weeks in October 2008. He took erotic pictures of her and placed her advertisement on a number of sexual service sites including massage, escorts, etc. She reported all the money was turned over to him. Epps pleaded guilty on April 12 2010 and is scheduled to be sentenced at 10 am July 26, 2010. He faces the likely minimum 10 years in prison, $250,000 fine, a lifetime of supervised release and an order of restitution, though numbers may be higher due to specific variables according to the FBI.
United States US
Isabel Consuelo Ochoa and her daughters Consuelo Pilar Ochoa and Maria de Jesus Ochoa trafficked young girls from Nuevo Laredo, Mexico to San Antonio, Texas to work as prostitutes. The Ochoas recruited girls, saying they would work as escorts, but would not be required to have sex with the men. The three known victims in the case are 15, 17, and 22 years old. After arrival, the Ochoas told victims they had to work five years as prostitutes to pay back the money spent to come to the U.S. A male associate of the Ochoas threatened the victims with a gun, telling them that should the girls leave he would find their families in Mexico and have them killed.