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Philippines PH
Police raided the house after members of the gang were arrested at the Manila airport where they were trying to send five girls to clients in the Middle East using fake documents. The victims rescued at the airport told police they had been held for several weeks at a house, and the raid on that house uncovered the other 20 victims.
Mozambique MZ
A woman tried to smuggle female and male genitalia which were wrapped up in matapa leaves across the South African/Mozambique border. She was caught on the South African side of the border.
South Africa ZA
A man of 27/28 years attempted to smuggle 5 male genitalia across the Mozambique border, and was caught on the South African side.
Mozambique MZ
A woman attempted to cross the Mozambique/South Africa border with several children’s heads inside plastic bags in the car trunk, hidden under capulanas (traditional clothing, ed.).
Mozambique MZ
When border police searched a woman’s bags, she got upset. The police then searched further and found adult male genitalia hidden within the bags of manioc.
Germany DE
Police stopped a van with Swedish license plates on the A7 motorway to find 31 Iraqi men, aged 15 to 30 in the cargo room. They were in a miserable condtion and were set to be trafficked to Scandinavia. This was the fifth such case on that route in five months.
Thailand TH
It is in process now, in that the baby's mum has borrowed money and is now on the way to get the baby back.
Malawi MW
http://www.ldh.org.mz/index.php/en/projects-and-research/trafficking-body-parts The interview was conducted at Tete hospital with a victim (Victim) of a mutilation. According to the victim, on 5th August 2008, he was passing alone by a cemetery when he felt a knock on his head. When he woke up his complete genitalia had been removed and he was bleeding profusely. He started crying and some people who lived there (in Tsangano) came and took him to the local hospital. In the morning an ambulance took him to Tete hospital. The victim stated that he had heard about identical cases and mentioned that in 2008, a man was murdered and his heart and genital organs were removed. In 2006, a similar case happened. The victim said that people sell those organs and that the ones who buy them use them to make treatments for wealth and business. LDH: Can you tell us what happened? Victim: It happened on Tuesday (5th August, 2008, ed.). I went to the market. On my way back from the market, I passed by a cemetery and felt a knock on the head. I woke up on the floor. They had taken me to a corner and I was fainted. My genital organs had been removed. When I woke up because of the wind […] I started to cry and people that live there came. The persons who heard me crying picked me up and took me. Someone climbed a tree and started calling other people. The ones who did it were close and so they started running when they heard people calling. So, I was taken to the hospital. In the morning they made a phone call, and an ambulance came and took me to the hospital. LDH: What time was it? More or less. Victim: At dusk. LDH: Were you alone? Victim: Yes, I was alone. LDH: Wasn’t there any movement of people? Victim: No. There was no movement. LDH: So, you only woke up after everything had happened? Victim: Yes. I woke up after everything had happened. LDH: Did you manage to see who did this?? Victim: No. LDH: What do you do there? Victim: I am a peasant. LDH: How old are you? Victim: 32 LDH: This type of cases, are these frequent? Victim: I have heard about it other times. […] The year before the last, another person died. Even now, that I am here (in hospital, ed), I heard that the same happened to another person. LDH: Those other cases, were they identical or did they remove other type of organs? Victim: This case now, they took the heart and the genital organs. LDH: And the case of the year before the last? Victim: They also took. Normally, they take the heart and the genital organs. LDH: In the case of the year before the last? Victim: Yes, they took the heart and the genital organs. LDH: What do you think they do with those organs? Victim: Business, they sell. LDH: The ones who buy, what do they do with those organs? Victim: They make treatments and medicine for wealth and business. LDH: Did they take your organs or they left them? Victim: They took them. LDH: Did they cut it completely? Victim: They cut it completely. They put a knife here, and then here and took the testicles and even. I have nothing now (the victim proceeded to show the male interviewer the wound).
United States US
Michail Aronov, 34, a Lithuanian national, was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for his role as a ringleader in an involuntary servitude and money laundering conspiracy. He was the last of nine convicted defendants to be sentenced for crimes associated with this conspiracy. He was convicted for conspiring to violate the civil rights of Eastern European women by forcing them to work as exotic dancers in Detroit-area strip clubs, as well as immigration and money laundering conspiracies. Aronov was also ordered to pay more than $1 million in restitution to the victims. The court had previously ordered Aronov’s henchman, Aleksandr Maksimenko, to reimburse the dancers a total of $1,570,450. The court also ordered that $537,043 in cash seized from Maksimenko’s home and safety deposit boxes, as well as about $30,000 worth of jewelry, be used to satisfy a portion of the restitution award. Maksimenko received a 14-year prison sentence. His father, Venyamin Gonikman, remains a fugitive. Three other individuals were also previously sentenced as a part of this conspiracy.
United States US
The FBI obtained 2 search warrants in November 2007 and February 2008 and searched Hoffman's residence and found the images on his computer and charged him with child exploitation and trafficking sexually explicit photos via the internet. He had 70 sex related charges filed against him. His wife was also arrested for tampering with the evidence. She had known since 2005 and had concealed the evidence and let him continue to care for the kids. She was released on probation but had her custody removed and Mark Hoffman was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2009.
Mozambique MZ
http://www.ldh.org.mz/index.php/en/projects-and-research/trafficking-body-parts The LDH (Liga Moçambicana dos Direitos Humanos or Human Right’s League, Mozambique) conducted an interview in Nampula City with the family of a victim. The victim, “Mary” disappeared on a Friday in March, 2007. Her family found her uniform and scarf hanging on a shrub and discovered her body in the bushes nearby. The body was severely mutilated and had started decaying. It is believed the killers grabbed her while she was walking on the road, carried her about 300 meters inside the bushes, cut her throat, opened her stomach and took her genital organs, eyes, heart, tongue and breasts. The family has no opinion about the motives for this murder. Excerpt from the Interview: LDH1: And afterwards, did you have any information about the person that did that, was he or she caught?? Victim’s Brother-in-Law: We had no information.
Mozambique MZ
A couple (male 40, female 30) attempted to go across the border with the head and the genitalia of an adult man and the ribs of an adult. They hid them within three bags of vegetables.
Togo TG
The practice of ritual or customary servitude was outlawed in Ghana in 1998, but the practical implementation of the law has fallen largely to NGO's who have facilitated the shrines in ending the practice. The NGO Every Child Ministries Ghana and negotiated with the Sovigbenor shrine 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 126 of its trokosi slaves on December 9, 2005. The liberation was a public event in which the shrine freed the slaves and agreed to end the practice of ritual servitude in that place. In this case a 37 year old woman was liberated who had been born in bondage to a trokosi. The practice of replacement demands that if a trokosi slave dies or runs away, she must be replaced by another girl from her family, so this child replaced her mother upon her death. Her story came out in the course of the liberation process. She was one of 126 women liberated from the Sovigbenor shrine.
Peru PE
Through word-of-mouth, the girls heard about Generacíon. They went to the organization's house for street kids and spent time there until the house was closed on May 17th 2005.
United States US
Senior Pastor Richard G. Manning is the senior pastor of the Parma Baptist Church. He was arrested on a felonious rape charge. Police said he coerced a Thai immigrant into having sex by making her believe he could have her deported because she is not a U.S. citizen.
Togo TG
A logal waga or recruiter lived in the victim's village in Central Togo. She was an older woman who took up to three girls to Nigeria every year to work selling on the streets. Sometimes the girls came back alone, sometimes with her. Some of the claimed to have made the equivalent of $55 a day. The victim wanted to earn money to enable her to take a vocaitonal apprenticeship, since her family was no longer able to pay for schooling for the children. The Waga agreed to pay for the victim's trip and deduct it from future wages. One night the victim took $3 from the family's money, packed a few clothes in a plastic bag and went to meet the waga. She and another girl and the waga walked to the highway and caught a car, changing vehicles and drivers many times. Eventually they ended up in Cotenou, a city in the southeast part of Benin near Nigeria. The girls were hidden for two days in a house, then smuggled into Nigeria in a car taking a back road.
United States US
During Girl Fest's protest at Hamaguchi's business address, which was his home address, police threatened to arrest the demonstrators for their peaceful demonstration on the sidewalk in front of the Hamaguchi residence/business address for Video Travel.
Canada CA
"In 1999, four dilapidated boats arrived off B.C.’s coastal waters carrying approximately 590 Chinese migrants. Among them, 134 children were travelling without parents or a legal guardian. Many of these children had families in China who were expecting them to work in Canada and the United States and send the money home. By definition, these children were trafficked. " http://www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/octip/identifying.htm