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Namibia NA
Iiyambo's wife laid a charge of domestic violence against him, through which the police discovered that the child living with him was not his child, but his labourer. The child has been removed.
Ghana GH
13 people were arrested by police on the outskirts of Prampram in the Greater Accra Region on Aug. 14, 2010, suspected to be trafficking children. Three were drivers of commerical buses. On the spot investigation revealed that the children were probably recruited from towns and villages in the Greater Accra and Volta Regions like ADa, Ningo, Sege, Kporgunor, Lekporgunor and surrounding areas. They are believed to have been bound to Yeji, a fishing village in the Brong Ahafo Region along the northern reaches of the Volta River, for exploitation. The buses carried a large number of passengers, of whom many are believed to be children being trafficked.
Niger NE
A local Niger tribal chief + the nation of Niger! Some information about the man from what is known about the victim: "She was born in 1984. As the daughter of a slave, she inherited her mother’s servile status. At the age of 12 years, she was sold by a representative of her mother’s owner for the sum of 240000CFA (equivalent to $US 400). Her new master had four wives and seven other ‘sadaka’ (female slaves). She was raped at the age of 13 years and subjected to constant sexual harassment and abuse thereafter. She bore three children, one of whom died. She was beaten, forced to endure harsh labour seven days a week without remuneration or vacation. She lived on a daily diet of insults and degradation by her master who reminded her constantly that she was a slave. She described how she was treated ‘like a goat’. On several occasions she tried to escape and was severely punished. In 2005, her master decided to ‘liberate’ Hadijatou in order to regularise his relationship with her and make her one of his wives. He duly provided her with a ‘liberation certificate’, later presented to the Court, which stated that ‘I, El Hadj Souleymane Naroua have liberated Mme Hadijatou Koreau on this day 18 August and she is now free and is no-one’s slave.’ The certificate was signed by ‘the chef du village’, ‘the master’ and the ‘beneficiary’. Once she received her ‘liberation certificate’, Hadijatou left and refused to marry her former master. This provoked two parallel lines of legal cases in Nigerçher attempts to secure recognition of her right to be free, and her prosecution, at her former master’s instigation, for bigamy. When Hadijatou challenged the verdict, (that she was married to her former master) before the Supreme Court, the highest court of Niger acknowledged that she was a slave, but failed to condemn this as unlawful or treat it as determinative of the question whether she was obliged to live with her former master. Thus, the state of Niger did not protect her and was consequently charged with protecting slavery.
Madagascar MG
Vanilla farmers in Madagascar force children to work the vanilla fields. Farmers often feel forced to employ their children and not pay them due to low prices or their not being paid by their buyers. In the past several years, vanilla prices have fallen from around $600/kilo to $20/kilo. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article7060962.ece http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/vanillas_not-so-sweet_side
United Kingdom GB
Natasa Demetorova was sentenced to 6 yrs in jail for prostituting a 17 years old from Slovakia.
Côte d'Ivoire CI
From Sumana Chatterjee's "Chocolate Companies Fight 'Slave Free' Labels on Products." Washington Bureau. 31 July 2001, as reprinted on http://www.american.edu/TED/chocolate-slave.htm. "Aly Diabate, who is from Mali, was eleven years old when he was lured in Mali by a slave trader to go work on an Ivorian farm. The locateur told him that not only would he receive a bicycle, but he could also help his parents with the $150 he would earn. However life on the cocoa farm of "Le Gros" (or "Big Man") was nothing like Aly had imagined. He and the other workers had to work from six in the morning to about 6:30 at night on the cocoa fields. Since Aly was only about four feet tall, the bags of cocoa beans were taller than him. To be able to carry and transport the bags, other people would have to place the bags onto his head for him. Because the bags were so heavy, he had trouble carrying them and always fell down. The farmer would beat him until he stood back up and lifted the bag again. Aly was beaten the most because the farmer accused him of never working hard enough. The little boy still has the scars left from the bike chains and cocoa tree branches that Le Gros used. He and the other slaves were not fed well either. They had to subsist on a few burnt bananas. Yet when nightfall came, Aly's torture did not end. He and eighteen other slave workers had to stay in their one room that measured 24-by-20 feet. The boys all slept on a wooden plank. There was but one small hole just big enough to let in some air. Aly and the others had to urinate in a can, because once they went into the room, they were not allowed to leave. To ensure this, Le Gros would lock the room. Despite the horrendous conditions that he was living in, Aly was too afraid to escape. He had seen others who had attempted escapes, only to be brutally beaten after they got caught."
Uganda UG
When a man returned from a church service to his village in the Bugiri district of eastern Uganda he was told that his three-year old son had been taken away by strangers. "We were looking for my child for hours, but we couldn't find him," he said. "Someone rang me and told me my son was dead and had been left in the forest. I ran there and saw him lying in a pool of blood. His genitals had been cut off, but he was still alive." Organs are in high demand for use in occult rituals.
Uganda UG
A 15 year old boy was forced by his father to go work for his uncle. His father hoped that it would be a better life for his son. The money the boy made was sent back to his father. He was kept in a small room with 12 other kids. Everyday they were forced to go collect scrap metal from town so his uncle could sell it. One time he failed to meet his quota and was beaten 100 times with a cain and was denied food for 4 days.
Uganda UG
A 13 year old boy was promised a good paying job by his aunt but was forced to work as a waiter in her bar for no pay. He ran away from his aunt to the streets and joined a gang. The gang forced him to pick pocket in crowded areas. One time when he didn't meet his quota for the day, he was sodomized by the gang leader.
Ghana GH
A man told the victim's parents he would be involved in his successful sales business. He sold the victim to fishers on Lake Volta, who enslaved him for 8 years From 4 to 8 a.m., he pulled the nets into the boat and unloaded the fish to the riverside. Then spent the day mending nets to prepare for more fishing in the afternoon. First meal of the day was eaten in the afternoon, and the second and last one just before bed. He was frequently beaten, other times he was punished by having the fishermen steer the boat away, forcing him to swim a long distance to catch up with them. Web address(es) of reports www.freetheslaves.net/NETCOMMUNITY .SSLpage.aspx?pid=378&srcid=248
Thailand TH
She has the sweetest face, the biggest smile. You’d never know the heartache hidden in her heart. Her name is Manee, just 6 years old when she came into HE this year. She came in so hungry for hugs and love. Both were sadly lacking in her family. She has the sweetest face, the biggest smile. You’d never know the heartache hidden in her heart. She is so tiny – it is hard to imagine someone wanting to beat someone so little, so defenseless. Her mother is not there to defend her as during the day, she is hired to work in someone else’s fields. Manee’s future looked bleak, until HE came to her village. After assessing the needs, after talk and more talk with the mother and stepfather, Manee was released into the care of HE A safe place at last for a tiny little girl with a wounded heart. That’s Manee.
Zambia ZM
A man from Chilila Island in Mpulungu has been charged with child trafficking contrary to the law. The trafficker was arrested for attempting to sell his 2-year-old girl for K30 million on Friday. When the matter came for plea before Mpulungu magistrate Miyato Muyambango,the father, who looked humble in the dock admitted having attempted to sell his daughter to a Mpulungu businessman for K30 million. He told the court that he wanted to go ahead with the transaction because he was in dire need of money which he wanted to use to travel to Lusaka so that he could begin a new life. He pleaded guilty to child trafficking and said he was sorry.
Congo CG
No details available.
United Kingdom GB
An 11 year old Malian boy dreamed of buying a bicycle. When a man approached him and told him he could work on a cocoa farm and make enough money to buy a bicycle, a radio and more, the boy did not suspect the man of being a child trafficker. He went with the man to Cote d'Ivoire, where the man sold him to a cocoa farmer. He and other trafficked boys worked long hours doing back-breaking and dangerous work farming cocoa and bananas. The farmer gave them little to eat, beat them severely, and forbade them from leaving the farm. At last he realized he had become a slave.
Mexico MX
The traffickers are hospital personnel from Mexico City's Hospital Central de Oriente who have been accused of selling a newborn baby that they delivered and helped illegally register babies as couples’ children. Drs. Victor Manuel Mancera Gonzalez, Jorge Adalberto Guerrero Bustos, and Alfredo Ortiz Rosas; Nurse Maria Guadalupe Castro Morales and Receptionsist Rodriguez Mondragon are the traffickers involved. Drs. Mancera Gonzalez, Ortiz Rosas, and Guerrero Bustos delivered Diana Fernanda Castillo’s baby. Officials stated that Castillo “ never saw her daughter but heard her cry. The mother repeatedly asked Ortiz Rosas to let her see her daughter, but he told her it would be later, once she recovered from the anesthesia and Caesarean section surgery she had undergone. Then Mancera Gonzalez told Castillo that her baby had been taken to the "Moctezuma" Infants Hospital. The next day, Ortiz told her, ‘Your daughter died. There was nothing that could be done for her. She was born with insufficient respiratory ability. I tried to save her, but she died.’ He also told her the body had been cremated.” The doctors sold Castillo’s baby to a woman named Cinthia Nayeli Perez Ortiz for 15,000 pesos ($1,120) in November 2008. On the side, Dr. Mancera Gonzalez had charged a couple, Ruiz Padilla and Merino Hernandez 12,000 pesos ($900) to illegally register a baby as their daughter. http://www.pgjdf.gob.mx/ http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/11/06/mexico.stolen.babies/index.html
United States US
Frank Lombard, associate director of the Center for Health Policy, was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh, the FBI said. informant described in graphic detail how he allegedly observed Lombard molesting an African-American child on four occasions over an Internet video chat service called ICUii. the child was one of two adopted African-Americans in his custody. Lombard has been charged with attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to engage in sex with a child, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Lombard allegedly used the adult Internet service to conduct his video chats. According to an affidavit in support of the arrest warrant, the Internet service indicated that Lombard's profile "stated he was interested in "perv fam fun," a reference to "incestuous child molestation." "FL" told undercover investigators that he had himself molested his child, whom he adopted as an infant, and that he had allowed others to molest his child. "FL" stated that "the abuse of the child was easier when the child was too young to talk or know what was happening, but that he had drugged the child with Benadryl during the molestation," Palchak wrote in his affidavit. Two children were taken from Lombard's home and put into protective custody by the North Carolina Department of Social Services, an FBI statement said. Michael Schoenfeld, a Duke University spokesman, told ABC News that Lombard has been placed on unpaid leave and that the university is cooperating fully with the investigation. Lombard has been employed by Duke since 1999, Schoenfeld said. Appearing today in federal court in Durham, Lombard agreed to be transferred to Washington for a later court hearing. His lawyer did not immediately return a call seeking comment. The Associated Press contributed to this story. via, ABC news.
United States US
Akouavi Kpade Afolabi , a Togolese woman residing legally in the United States was found guilty on October 14 on 22 counts of human trafficking and obtaining US visas by fraud. The husband, Lassissi Afolabi, the son, Dereck Hounakey, and a fourth person, Geoffry Kouevi, have also been charged. To be sentenced in January. The jury that heard the case of Akouavi Kpade Afolabi returned the unanimous verdict of guilty quickly. Afolabi admitted trafficking girls aged 10 to 19 from Ghana and Togo between 2002 and 2007. She was a prominent textile merchant in Lomé, where she gained control of the girls. Afolabi promised to help them escape from poverty by learning a new profession in America. Instead, she forced them into slavery and abused them both physically and psychologically. The girls were forced to work 14 hours a day, 6 days a week braiding hair in salons in New Jersey. Afolabi stole all their wages and even confiscated the smallest tips given by clients. The girls were told that they’d be sent back to Africa if they objected to working without pay. Afolabi and her husband Lassissi Afolabi kept the girls under tight control, confiscating their passports and other personal documents and refusing to allow them to call home or friends. The girls were frequently beaten, especially by the husband, who was also charged. They were beaten if they did not return directly to their apartment after work, if they asked for their salary or any money, or if they disobeyed his orders. One had her head beaten against a table. In addition to these nightmares, both the husband and the son, Dereck Hounakey, have admitted to raping some of the girls. Afolabi hung her head and wept in the courtroom as the husband described his sexual encounters with the girls. The trafficker must have feared the girls would naturally refuse when they learned the real circumstances of their engagement, for she forced them to undergo voodoo or fetish rituals. As is frequently done to the trokosi in Ghana, she tried to frighten them into believing that they would go mad if they did not remain loyal and obedient to her. Afolabi prayed daily and sometimes sacrificed chickens at a voodoo or fetish shrine inside her home. Afolabi brought the girls into the U.S. fraudulently. Authorities say Afolabi smuggled the girls to America by helping them pose as spouses or relatives of people who secured visas through a lottery program. One of the enslaved girls failed several times to trick American embassy officials in Togo. She approached real lottery winners and offered to pay their plane fare if they would smuggle one of her workers into the US by having her pose as his stepdaughter. She even went so far as to arrange a fake wedding for one of the girls to ensure her enslavement. Afolabi’s lawyer tried to defend her on the basis that what she did was consistent with West African cultural practices and that she had saved the girls from poverty because they were provided with clothes. The American jury did not accept the argument, clearly seeing it as a classic case of child trafficking and modern-day slavery. The prosecution is asking for a life sentence in prison. http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/news/national/article_a2d7e2dd-169b-5937-9b8f-d5fe3511a06a.html http://blog.nj.com/ledgerarchives/2008/05/officials_call_it_slavery_but.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_re_us/us_hair_braiders_forced_labor_5 http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/07-09-2007/96879-tololese_slaves-0 http://www.southfloridacriminaldefenselawyerblog.com/2009/03/federal_human_trafficker_plead.html#more http://www.nj.com/mobile/articles/paper1.ssf?/base/news-14/1253151910265840.xml&coll=1
United States US
This investigation was part of Operation Predator, a nationwide initiative to identify, investigate and arrest people who prey on children, including human traffickers, international sex tourists, Internet pornographers, and foreign-national predators whose crimes make them deportable. Launched in July 2003, federal agents have arrested almost 12,000 individuals through Operation Predator.
China CN
All the 30 traffickers, led by Chen Qi Zai, are from Fuan, Fujian. They traffick/purchase infants from Guangxi, Yunan...; each child is priced around 30000-40000 yuan (around 5000 dollars), the traffickers typically add 3000-4000 rmb (400 dollars)then sell the kids for profit. They buy and sell a group of children on a monthly rate with a local who finds families that are interested in buying.
Uganda UG
No details available.
Georgia GE
27 medical workers were arrested on charges of participating in a baby trafficking network. Fourteen of the detainees belong to an organized criminal group that sold newborn children.
Congo CG
The victim was studying at school when members of a militia group abducted him and 11 other boys from his secondary school. The soldiers drove them to a training camp and put them in a pit in the ground. Those who resisted were beaten. The victim was stabbed in the stomach and tied up until he submitted to the training. He endured difficult training with some 60 other children, including a number of girls. They were fed one plate of maize meal a day to share among 12 people. He watched people die from starvation and illness. When the soldiers killed those who tried to escape, they forced him and other children to bury the bodies.
Ethiopia ET
Child traffickers from Addis Ababa came to Johnston's village in Inesa, Ethiopia and asked his mother if she would like her son to attend school in Addis Ababa. His mother wanted him to have the opportunity to lead a better life she therefore sent him off with the traffickers.
Uganda UG
Mr. Kiguli claimed he had work for a 14 year old boy in Kampala. Once in the city, he brought the boy to a dormitory of children. He forced the boy to collect scrap with the other children. He received sever beatings. After an argument with a boy in his dorm, he was taken outside, tied to a pole and beaten.