CSEC2004
United States US
United States v. Boehm, et. al. (Alaska). On March 19, 2004, an 18-count indictment was returned against Josef F. Boehm, charging him with conspiring commit sex trafficking of children, possessing a controlled substance with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and being an unlawful user of a controlled substance in possession of a firearm and ammunition. Boehm pled guilty on November 22, 2004, to child sex trafficking and drug charges. As part of the plea agreement, he agreed to forfeit his residence and also to provide $1.2 million in a trust fund for the future benefit of the victims. Boehm was sentenced on May 10, 2005, to 11 years and 3 months of incarceration to be followed by five years’ supervised release.
CSEC2004
United States US
Josue Flores Carreto, Gerardo Flores Carreto, and Daniel Perez Alonso were involved in the Carreto family sex trafficking ring. The three admitted that between 1991 and 2004 they recruited young women from Mexico to come to the U.S. The victims were smuggled to New York City where they were forced to work as prostitutes in brothels. The victims were physically and verbally abused. The victims were forced to perform several sexual acts each day, at the date of $25 to $35. Half of the amount earner went to the owner and manager of the brothel, and the other half was taken by members of the Carreto organization.
CSEC2004
Australia AU
Law enforcement received a tip-off regarding the website and arrested the parents. The mother plead guilty to 62 offences and the father to 41 offences. She was sentenced to 13 and 9 years gaol time and he to 10 and 7 years gaol time for the crimes of procuring the prostitution of their daughter; and maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with their daughter, respectively. They will be eligible for parole after four years and three years, respectively.
CSEC2004
United Kingdom GB
A young man befriended the 16 year-old girl in Lithuania, where he introduced her to his “friends” at a nightclub. They offered her an exciting, all expenses paid, ‘Sport’s Trip’ to London. She forged a permission letter from her parents, and the men took her to Sheffield where she was sold – they confiscated her ID card which proved she was 16. She was then sold to four/five Albanian brothers (ages 21, 22, 32, 33) who were operating a brothel in Hounslow, London. They told her she had to work to pay for the cost to transport her from Sheffield to London. The brothel operated 24/7 and the girls were given one day off a week. Girls were told that they would receive a share of their profits once the debt had been paid off. She was given a fake name and was allowed to make occasional phone calls to her family in Lithuania, but was too frightened to tell them about her situation. The gang also occasionally sent £100 or so, which the prosecution argued was to imply that the girl was doing well in the UK. The girl reports that she was forced to sleep with as many as 10 men per day, and earned her traffickers around £800 per day. She received no money.
CSEC2004
United States US
Valle-Maldonado pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import and harbor aliens for the purpose of prostitution, importation of aliens for purposes of prostitution, and brining illegal aliens to the US. She was sentenced to 54 months in prison and ordered to pay $135,542 to nine of the victims. Three of her associates have also been convicted related to the case: Javier Sandoval-Garcia, Jose Velasquez-Garcia, and Juan Gregorio Martinez-Vasquez. Velasquez-Garcia and Martinez-Vasquez were sentenced to six months in prison.
CSEC2004
United States US
In 2005, federal authorities arrested Mr. England, who was living in Fort Lauderdale, on charges of obtaining and using a passport by fraud. After serving a short sentence in federal prison in California, he went to a state prison to serve out his six-year sentence for the 1977 molesting charges. Federal prosecutors in South Florida said that Mr. England would be transported to Florida in the coming days to face charges of trafficking a minor across state lines for sexual purposes. These “charges will likely prevent a notorious convicted child molester from preying on other children,” said Jeffrey H. Sloman, United States attorney for the Southern District of Florida.If convicted on the additional charges, Mr. England could face life in prison.
CSEC2004
United States US
Gary Gates and Tamisha Heyward operated a sex trafficking ring from their home on the internet. Victims, as young at 14, were forced to perform sex acts. Gates beat women who did not do as he told them, and sexually assaulted many of them. Gates also provided drugs to many of the victims. The victims were kept in their home at 16th St. NE.
CSEC2004
United States US
In and out of various group homes after years in foster care. picked up by the police December 2005 (16 years old)
CSEC2004
United States US
Adult male and adult female engaged in production of child pornography.
CSEC2004
United States US
Valente Chavez Sanchez Age: 33 Pleaded guilty to federal charges of sex trafficking a minor and transporting women for prostitution across state lines. Melania Corcino Age: 43 Pled guilty to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, sex trafficking through coercion, and interstate transportation of persons with intent to engage in prostitution Jose Altagracia DeLeon Corcino Age: 25 Dominican Singer De Leon faces an extradition hearing before the Supreme Court. All three individuals operated a sex trafficking ring between 1997 and August 2004 in Raleigh, Fuquay-Varina, and Lillington, North Carolina. They trafficked the women and at least one 14 yr. old minor from New York, New Jersey and Maryland. Sanchez arranged the transportation of enslaved prostitutes from NY, NJ and MD. "The women typically would work a week in a brothel in Raleigh or Durham and then be exchanged for other out-of-state prostitutes. Investigators said the men sold $25 tickets to men for access to locations that housed females, including minors." "The price Sanchez paid for each new enslaved female was $130"(N&O). Women were kept "under lock and key" and were not allowed to quit. "Where the minor was found, there were armed guards at the house," Rangarajan said. Corcino "was barking orders and even offered her service [to investigators]"(N&O). Every Sunday evening, a new group of prostitutes was driven to Greensboro. On the way, Mora-Bueno would contact brothel operators, such as Sanchez, to see if they wanted to exchange prostitutes, Rangarajan said.
CSEC2004
Canada CA
A 22-year old Detroit man, Melando Streety. He was convicted of four prostitution-related charges. Heavily armed Toronto police rescued two London girls from his Scarborough residence in July of 2004. The 16 and 17 year olds had been abducted and taken to Toronto to work as prostitutes. http://www.atv.ca/london/news_26044.aspx Current News Development: “A pimp convicted of forcing teenage girls into prostitution has been charged Monday for a third time for continuing to run a sex business from behind bars. Streety has been convicted twice before of running a prostitution business while imprisoned. Streety, a U.S. citizen in Canada illegally, is serving an eight-year sentence for the abduction of two London, Ont. teenagers who were forced into prostitution at Toronto body rub parlours. At a previous trial, court heard inmate Streety spent an inordinate amount of time each day talking on a phone on his penitentiary cellblock. Streety was convicted in May of living off the avails of prostitution of girls under the age of 18. He had 32 months added to his sentence. Crown prosecutor John Skoropada said Streety issued orders to the women about when and for how long they could take breaks. Melando and Caleb Nettleton, 24, are charged with two counts of procuring.”
CSEC2004
Nicaragua NI
INTERPOL acknowledges the problems in Cenetral America.In Costa Rica, Casa Alianza has filed about 400 criminal complaints with the office of the special prosecutor. Owing to the apathy and inefficiency of the judicial system, which is being blamed for hindering efforts to put an end to child prostitution, most of these cases have not been prosecuted.
CSEC2004
United States US
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/publications/facts-and-figures-2010-2011/investigative-programs Forty pimps associated with prostitution activities in central Pennsylvania were identified during the investigation. Additionally, 152 victims of prostitution were identified, 44 of which were recruited or worked as juveniles. On December 7, 2005, 18 subjects were named in two federal indictments. To date, all subjects have been convicted. Sentences ranging from 25 to 40 years in prison have been obtained. http://www.justice.gov/usao/pam/press_releases/2009%20archive/Dillard_05_15_09.htm As the direct result of [a state trooper's] actions in warning prostitutes and pimps of undercover operations and law enforcement sweeps, [a state trooper] enabled the prostitution ring to avoid arrest and prosecution and to continue to prostitute children as young as 12 years’ old at the Gables Truck Stop. Ohio Trafficking in Persons Study Commission, Research and Analysis Sub-Committee, Report on the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in Ohio: Operation Precious Cargo occurred in December, 2005 in Harrisburg, PA. As a result of this investigation 151 victims of prostitution were identified, at least 45 of which were prostituted as children. Seventy-eight of 151 identified victims were from Toledo, the youngest of whom was just 12 years old. Of the 18 traffickers indicted in the Precious Cargo Case, all but one was from Toledo. Sixteen of the traffickers pleaded guilty and received sentences of up to 25 years in prison. Two traffickers were found guilty at trial and received 35 and 45 years in prison. In addition to the 18 traffickers indicted in the Precious Cargo Case, at least six other Toledo based traffickers have been prosecuted for the sex trafficking of women and children by other FBI Divisions. This is the story of Julie, one of the girls who was only 12 years old at the time she was trafficked. Julie* was walking down the street when a man in a car pulled up to talk to her and convinced her to take a ride. She explains, I really didn’t want to ‘cause I was scared but you know how an older person just comes at you like that and you don’t know what to do…He just said we were going to just sit there for a minute and you know a minute turned into days. He was acting all nice and buying me whatever I wanted. At the time she was approached by a trafficker, her home life was chaotic. She lived in poverty with an alcoholic father. When he became intoxicated, yelling would quickly progress to physical assaults. She felt stuck. I did want to leave…because my dad, he’s always drinking and stuff like that and till this day now, he still does it and back then he would slap me and stuff so I didn’t want to stay, you know, but I didn’t want to leave cause that lifestyle, at first I thought it was ok but after being out there and having to do that… At the time of her recruitment Julie was barely connected to school, with special needs and not receiving sufficient grades, she continued to attend in hopes of catching up with her classmates. Over time, and with much convincing from her would be trafficker, Julie ended up hesitantly agreeing to get in the car. Over time he convinced her to be driven to Harrisburg, PA. While there she was taken to a motel to dress in sexier clothing and driven to a truck stop and was expected to sell herself. She was walked over to various trucks, forced to get in and have sex with truck drivers while her “watcher” waited. [He took me] to where all the other girls are, ‘cause he got like five other girls and we was at a motel. We stayed until it got dark like around five or six then went out there and worked. I didn’t know it was going to be a truck stop, I didn’t know what to think. I didn’t think I would have to walk up and down in the cold and having nasty old truck drivers touch me and stuff. I didn’t feel right…I gave the girl the money; the girl held my money after every date I had. * Story provided by Williamson (2008) raw data. Identifying characteristics have been changed to protect the victim.
CSEC2003
United States US
Quinton Williams operated a prostitution business, and trafficked women (including minors) across state lines. Williams would supervise the victims business, and keep all of their earnings. His sex trafficking business was his only source of income. In 2001 he traveled with victims from Chicago to Indiana, Texas, Arizona, and Nevada.
CSEC2003
United States US
Mark Leroy Daley, 41, of Santa Rosa was being held in Sonoma County Jail on $280,000 bail on four counts each of pimping a minor, providing a child under age 16 for lewd acts and pandering, and one count of possessing methamphetamine. An associate of Daley, Emmanuel Alvarado Ayala, 35, who was employed as a cook in Santa Rosa, was arrested on suspicion of eight charges involving sex with underage girls. He was booked on $100,000 bail. Police said he would pay for motel rooms and be given access to the girls. Daley used implied threats and intimidation to control the girls. He was known to hang out in downtown Santa Rosa and has lived for several years in motels on Santa Rosa and Cleveland avenues, Police Sgt. Dave Hayes said. Daley was unemployed. Police believe he tried to recruit at-risk or runaway teen-age girls living on the streets, and that there were other potential victims in this case.
CSEC2003
United States US
Julio, Tomás and Luciano Salazar-Juárez are the dons of the largest local network trafficking and sexual exploiting Mexican girls and adolescents, who operated for over ten years in the agricultural camps and suburbs of San Diego. They used deception and coercion to recruit women and girls from native communities in Mexico to work as prostitutes in the San Diego area. The victims were normally moved by coyotes across the US Mexican border. Once in the US, the victims were kept in several houses throughout the San Diego county area. Many of the victims were moved to agricultural camps throughout the area to service workers at these locations.
CSEC2002
United States US
A 15 year old girl was recruted by male pimps to enter the Santa Clara Children's Shelter to befriend girls in the shclter. She then convinced three other girls as young as 13 to run away with her to become prostitutes in San Francisco and Los Angeles.
CSEC2002
United States US
"Fulton city police began their investigation shortly before midnight friday (8/9/2002) when a 15 year old girl was brought to the station by a relative. The arrests were made late Saturday and early Sunday." -Syracuse Post Standard 8/13/2002 "Seven men... face charges ranging from sexual misconduct and patronizing a prostitute to third degree rape and endangering." -Syracuse Post Standard 8/15/2002 "Judge Spencer J. Ludington has sentenced Dashnau to 9 months at the Oswego County Correctional Facility and Payment-Knopp to 6 months in Jail. Both women pleaded guilty to fourth degree promoting prostitution and endangering the welfare of a child, both misdemeanors." -Syracuse Post Standard 2/6/2003 This poster has not yet found information on the charges against the men in question.
CSEC2002
Ghana GH
The practice of ritual or customary servitude was outlawed in Ghana in 1998, but no one has ever been prosecuted under the law. Rather, the practical implementation of the law has fallen largely to NGO's who have facilitated the shrines in ending the practice. Two NGO's, Every Child Ministries Ghana and Fetish Slaves Liberation Movement negotiated with the Aklidokpo shrine community and educated them as to the issues over a span of over a year, finally winning the approval of the shrine for the liberation of all its trokosi slaves on January 22, 2004. The liberation was a public event in which the shrine freed the slaves and their children and agreed to end the practice of ritual servitude in that place. In this case a woman of unknown age was freed having served as a slave in the shrine since she was too young to remember. When she came she was too young to act on her own and was cared for by older slaves until she grew older. She was the third girl enslaved at the shrine in an attempt to atone for the same misdeed. When the priest tried to rape her, she ran away but was soon caught. Again she tried to run away later, but always ended up back at the shrine. She still struggles with fear, feeling that the god of the shrine may kill her at any time and for any reason.
CSEC2002
Lesotho LS
Lydia Muso, social worker in the LCCU. Cases were referred by Department of Social Welfare and the Maseru Urban Police. Two girls from Lesotho, ten victims in the record books of LCCU (Lesotho Child Counseling Unit): 6 were female, four were male. Female victims were on average 17 years old (youngest victim was 14), males were 16.5 years old on average. No details were given on how the victims were found. The trafficker was never found.
CSEC2002
United States US
Maritzana Diaz Lopez, Pedro Burgos, Angel Ruiz, Librada Jimenez-Calderon, Antonia Jimenez-Calderon, and Sergio Farfan all played a part in recruiting young girls (ages 14-18) from Mexico to come to the U.S. under false promises, and then forcing them to work in the sex industry. The victims were held in a brothel in Plainfield, New Jersey, where they then worked seven days a week performing sex acts. They performed six to eight sex acts a day, for approximately $35 each. The victims were subject to physical violence, as well as verbal threats.
CSEC2001
United States US
Walker and the victim, a 16-year-old girl, had been dating for a year in Oklahoma. After a year, they convinced the victim’s mother to let them leave Oklahoma. They came to Albuquerque at the end of September, 2001. Once there, the victim reports that Walker beat her and forced her to work as a prostitute and turn her earnings over to him. Walker and his girlfriend came to Albuquerque at the end of September, where they lived in a motel room. According to the criminal complaint, Walker told police that the 16-year-old used to "work for him but she did not make a lot of money so he let her go." Walker "admitted to being a 'pimp,' '' according to the complaint, though he told police that the other two teens didn't work for him. The 16-year-old was arrested for prostitution, and told police that Walker was forcing her to work as a prostitute. Shortly before the 16-year-old’s arrest, Walker returned from a trip to Phoenix with a 15-year-old and a 17-year-old.
CSEC2001
United States US
Angelique Danisse Epps and Antione D. Ford met two runaway sisters (14 and 15 years old) in Omaha, Nebraska and transported them to Grand Rapids, MI. Epps had a record of prostitution offenses, and planned to teach the girls how to be child prostitutes according to the GR Press. Ford is a gang member, and both Epps and Ford may have been attached to a murder as well immediately before they left Omaha.
CSEC2001
Guinea GN
Thirteen children aged 13-19 were discovered,and 18 people connected with the rackert were arrested. Both the girls trafficked and the trafficking agents were Nigerians. The girls were lured by promises of recruiters of over $1700 cash. They were then taken to Guinea,where they were being provided with false passports and sent to Mali, and from there sold to brothels in Morocco, Algeria, Spain and Italy. The girls would then be required to pay the brothel owner $400 for their freedom.