Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
The trafficker was found guilty of pimping a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year old woman, coercing them too charge up to $175 per hour for sex, and keeping most of that money. The trafficker forced two women to pose for explicit photos, which he posted on Craigslist. He then instructed them to charge $150 for a half hour and $175 for an hour for “out-calls” to hotels in Denver and Lakewood. The trafficker’s co-defendant drove the teens to the “out-calls” at motels. The trafficker, who was 19 at the time of the arrest, was charged with human trafficking, pimping, trafficking in children, pimping of a child, pandering of a child, and inducement of child prostitution. His co-defendant was charged with conspiracy to commit pimping and possession of a controlled substance. The trafficker was convicted in 2011 and will serve an 8 year sentence in prison.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Marquin Thompson, 28, Male, a resident of Everett, WA and San Diego, CA, acted as a pimp for the victim during 2007 and 2008 in the states of Washington, Arizona, and California. His conviction was for the trafficking he perpetrated in Des Moines and Kent, WA, along the Pacific Highway South. Victim was estranged from her family. Thompson forced the victim into prostitution, controlled her with threats and violence, and continued to coerce her in further months using threats of harm and abandonment. The victim was expected to make hundreds of dollars each day, and turn over all earnings to Thompson. Thompson has a prior conviction for supervision of a prostitute in February of 2006; was arrested for violation of probation while in the company of a suspected prostitute in August of 2009; was a suspect, along with two other individuals, in a prostitution recruitment case in May of 2009.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
4-29-2010 Red Van with black tinted windows. License Plate BKV-3507 Fulton, Georgia Two Tall mid-aged white males paid for gas at the Hobo Pantry (Chevron)on 616 N.Oates Street Dothan, AL 36303. They told me they had Chinese people in the van. It was a very suspicious vibe so I walk outside to sweep the parking lot. Another customer (a middle-aged black man) told the two white men to talk to me. They replied, "Oh no, and they left abruptly." What happened was, after they paid for they're gas and cigarettes, they had 3 young asian girls hop out the van, then one of the older white men, told two of them to get back in, while the other older white man paid the customer (the black man) 20$ to let the asian girl see how southern black men talk. He also asked the customer (the black man) if he knew any one willing to spend alot of money. I called the police and gave them the information I had written down. I'm pretty sure this same crew has been spotted at Bullets Speakeasy 176 S.Foster Street Dothan, AL 36303 after talking with the bartender last night.
Sex Trafficking2010
South Africa ZA
Sayed and Chuchumporn are due to be sentenced on May 10 and face a maximum sentence of life imprisonment or R100m fine, he said. The duo were arrested in 2007 after three Thai woman fled their brothel on Umbilo road and sought sanctuary at their embassy. The woman were recruited by Chuchumporn in Thailand. Recruited as prostitutes "It was clear from the moment they left Thailand it was for prostitution. There were no false pretences," said Mhaga. Though the women knew they were recruited to be prostitutes, the harsh treatment they received at the brothel forced them to flee. "It was also revealed that they were responsible for managing operations and activities at the said premises. The premises were therefore identified as the central operational point for the unauthorised and unlawful activities," said Mhaga. "There was therefore an existence of an organised human trafficking structure where females were being sexually exploited for a profit." Sayed and Chuchumporn are presently out on bail of R30 000 and R5 000, respectively. They were convicted on 19 counts. In addition to racketeering, they were convicted for contravention of the Sexual Offences Act and Immigration Act and money laundering. Police confiscated R19 700 and have shut down the Umbilo road brothel.
Sex Trafficking2010
South Africa ZA
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/article369559.ece A South African couple, Sayed and Chuchumporn, have been arrested after three Thai women fled their brothel on Umbilo Road in Durban. The women were recruited by Chuchumporn in Thailand and although they knew that they were being recruited to be prostitutes, the harsh treatment that they received at the brothel forced them to flee and seek the help of their embassy. The details of their story are unknown. Further investigation revealed that the couple was responsible for managing operations and activities at the said premises. The brothel was therefore identified as the central point for the unauthorized, illegal activities. There was an organized human trafficking structure where women were being sexually exploited.
Sex Trafficking2010
Australia AU
Father had legal custody and reported the case to the Police and took his daughter into the station for an interview. The girl says she was subjected to physical and mental abuse and forced to take illicit drugs. The Mother initially denied any knowledge of the claims, then changed her mind and pleaded guilty. The victim, whose identity has been kept confidential, said that she is heartbroken by the actions of her mother. She has also described how her mother’s betrayal left her incapable of trusting anyone and caused her to self-harm. The girl, then 16, was put on a train from Wollongong and sent to work at a brothel in Edgecliff, close to Sydney. The brothel was described by Judge Paul Conlon as ‘a high class agency, however frequented by low class individuals’.
Sex Trafficking2010
South Africa ZA
Nine Nigerian men were arrested for allegedly trafficking twelve women, between the ages of 18 and 30, from around the country to Ermelo and forcing them into prostitution. Home affairs officials confirmed that the suspects applied for asylum in South Africa, and according to the information in their application forms, they do not qualify for asylum. The women were given R30 a day for food, and from time to time they were forced to take drugs to ensure they remained addicts. The twelve women, between the ages of 18 and 30, told the police the men took all their earnings and the y were not paid for the jobs that they were doing.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Marquin Thompson pleaded guilty in January to forcing a then 19-year-old woman into prostitution after the woman had become estranged from her family, according to a U.S. Attorney's Office media release. She has since been reunited with her family. U.S. District Judge John C. Coughenour imposed the sentence. Thompson also took the woman to Arizona and California where he forced her to work as a prostitute. According to records filed in the case, between September 2007 and January 2008, Thompson forced the woman to work for him as a prostitute along Pacific Highway South. He controlled the woman with threats of violence. She was expected to make hundreds of dollars each day and required to turn over all of her earnings to Thompson.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
At about 10 a.m. Tuesday, detectives posed as clients of the girl's, whom they met at a Seattle location that police did not reveal. The detectives also found two adult women with the girl. One of the women, 25, was arrested for allegedly promoting the commercial sexual abuse of a minor. The other woman, whose age was not given, was released.
Sex Trafficking2010
Canada CA
Eric Jean-Pierre Riendeau was charged on Aug. 9 with living off the avails of prostitution, assault and trafficking in persons.
Sex Trafficking2010
Malaysia MY
Wong Tak Leong, a 22 year old Malaysian man, was convicted of the human trafficking of 13 Indonesian woman. He facilitated their arrival to Malaysia, picked them up from the airport, kept them in a condominium and acted as their pimp in procuring them clients to perform sexual services for them. The girls testified in court that while they came to Malaysia of their own free will they did not know the nature of the work that they would be doing, and it was claimed by the prosecution that the girls were exploited into prostitution. Wong claimed he was not their pimp, and merely the boyfriend of one of the girls who was helping them out with their daily activities.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
A man who worked for Janus, a company that works on military basaes, was arrested for running a prositituion ring out of his home in the Greystone country club community.According to a sheriff’s press release, complaints of high traffic volume at 105 Ridgecrest Square led to a search warrant for the residence and the subsequent arrest of three people May 12. jerry would go to Vietnam marry women and bring them back to U.S. and divorce tham and pimp them out of his home.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
This case was the result of an investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David P. Steinkamp. Baynes was sentenced to 96 months in prison on one count of transportation to engage in a commercial sex act.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Chris Smiley - 27 years old - The victim tried to escape but she says Smiley "pointed a black semi-automatic gun at her and hit her in the side of the head with it" saying "You know what happens to the girls that try to run?" Ayannah Willis - 26 years old - The victim told police that night Willis threatened to "rape her with the knife." The victim says that's when Willis told her she would have to prostitute herself to pay off her parents' drug debt: she "would perform sexual acts and sexual intercourse with several men a day from ads" on "Craig’s list" and "live links" phone line. Latoya Harlin - 21 years old -Court documents detail the relationships of the three, who called themselves "Team Smiley."
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
On September 16, 2009, the Canadian woman was apprehended by the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office as part of an undercover prostitution sting. At that time, the woman became hysterical and advised officers about what had happened to her. The investigation into Townsend's sex trafficking activities then commenced. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office conducted an undercover prostitution sting. Upon arrival in Jacksonville, after stops in many cities down from New York City, Townsend caused the women to engage in commercial sex acts from an abandoned apartment on Edenfield Road and also from the locations of customers, including local homes and hotels. Investigators amassed a large amount of evidence including hotel records, phone records, bank records, and 28 internet ads in which Townsend advertised the victim's availability for commercial sex acts. Investigators also seized a GPS from Townsend's vehicle and were able to establish locations of various customers in Jacksonville from the data contained in the GPS. The Canadian victim testified that Townsend forcibly removed her personal property (including her passport, cell phone, and laptop computer) from her belongings at the residence of Townsend's brother in Thomasville, North Carolina as a means of preventing her from leaving. Investigators actually recovered the woman's hidden passport from inside a stereo speaker at the brother's residence. Evidence also included a social networking message to one of the victims in which Townsend acknowledged that the victim would be beaten for not making "her number," a reference to a nightly quota of $1,000.00.
Sex Trafficking2010
South Africa ZA
On Saturday, May 29th, Police were tipped off about a number of women between 23 and 27 years old, who were being sexually exploited in Kempton Park. The Hawks specialized crime-fighting unit raided the brothel. The women are suspected to have been trafficked, but further investigation is occurring.
Sex Trafficking2010
Australia AU
The case was initially brought to the attention of the authorities by an informant in 1997 and it resulted in the arrest of Mr Glazner 14 months later in 1999. Glazner had bought Thai women from agents in Thailand for between $15,000 and $18,000, and they had knowingly come to Australia to work as prostitutes (McKinney 2001). Evidence was presented at an initial committal hearing showing that the women feared Glazner and that he withheld their passports, restricted their movements, and kept them in debt bondage (Police vs. Gary Galzner and Paul Donato Marino 1999). Detective Senior Sergeant Ivan McKinney outlined the evidence presented (at the committal hearing and trial) at a public forum in 2001. He said Glazner chose to enforce the “contract” under the first condition of 500 “free jobs”, each job being a half hour of sex. (McKinney 2001). At least 40 women were proven to be connected to Glazner through DIMIA records. Investigators suspected four to five times this many women were involved. The women were generally prostituted for 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. McKinney detailed the conditions of sexual servitude under which the women were kept upon arrival in Australia. Their living conditions at the Kew hotel where they were housed were extremely cramped and they were locked in. Glazner had installed a large locked iron gate and bars on the stairwells, and sealed the windows. Glazner or an associate drove them to and picked them up from the brothel where they were prostituted (McKinney 2001). Journalist Mark Forbes, reporting on the trial for the Age newspaper, wrote that Glazner had verbally abused and intimidated the women, and kept a loaded gun in clear view of the women at the hotel (Forbes 1999). The women feared for their lives and of reprisals against themselves or their families back in Thailand. As “Michelle’s” translator stated for her at the trial: “She said if she is here, maybe she will die. If she goes back to Thailand, she will die” (Police vs. Gary Galzner and Paul Donato Marino 1999.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Dwayne Charles Love, 24, from Suisan, California. The woman told police that Love had created listings on sexually-oriented websites, and had provided her with a work cell phone that was linked to the listings online, according to the arrest affidavit. She said that she had been at the hotel for three days and during that time, she had sex with four men, Witherspoon had sex with five or six men, and the other woman with three men. She said that she and the other woman would collect the money and give it to Witherspoon, who would give it to Love. She told police she couldn't keep any of the money, but was given a place to stay and food to eat. http://www.kwtx.com/waco/headlines/101919423.html http://www.kdhnews.com/news/story.aspx?s=41099
Sex Trafficking2010
Tonga TO
44 year old female Lirong Liu was charged with the trafficking of two female victims from China to the Kingdom of Tonga under the guise of waitressing jobs. The two victims paid Liu 40,000 Yen for Visas. Upon arrival into Tonga Liu threatened the two women with death and took their passports. The victims were enslaved for two months.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Juan Alexander Vianez, aka Nauj, age 26, from Lakewood, WA, and Las Vegas, Nevada. According to records in the case and testimony at trial, VIANEZ met the victim in this case when she was just a week past her 17th birthday. VIANEZ convinced the girl to become sexually involved with him. He then pressured her into prostitution to earn money for him. With threats and beatings he kept her isolated in the world of prostitution forcing her to work in Portland, Las Vegas and Arizona, and returning all money earned to him. As prosecutors wrote in their sentencing memo, “On a nearly weekly basis over the course of four years, the defendant threatened (the victim) with harm, and assaulted her, including punching her in the face, the stomach and ribs. The beatings did not excuse (the victim) from prostituting; she just had to put on more make-up to cover up the bruises.” http://www.justice.gov/usao/waw/press/2010/sep/vianez.html
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Prosecutors believe the three “were involved in a conspiracy to recruit, entice, and provide minor girls online to engage in sex acts for money.” An indictment alleges they rented hotel rooms so the girls could have sex for money, which was given to the defendants. The defendants are also accused of taking photographs of underage girls and posting them on online advertising services.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
A 42-year-old Glen Burnie man is jailed in Anne Arundel County on charges he trafficked and prostituted a minor after a federal and state task force on human trafficking on Monday removed a 12-year-old girl from the suspect's motel room on Route 198 in Laurel. Derwin Samuel Smith, 42, of McGuirk Drive, was accused of transporting the girl between the District and Atlantic City, where she worked for him as a prostitute, according to accounts she gave police. The girl was reported missing from the District on May 25 and was believed to have been involved in prostitution, Anne Arundel police said. She later told police she met the suspect in the District after he picked her up and paid her for sex.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
In Lexington County, South Carolina recently, authorities arrested a Batesburg-Leesville bondsman on the charge of forced labor after he was accused of making a woman do sexual favors and work for him in exchange for bail. According to the McClatchy News Service, sheriff's deputies arrested Curtis Jackson Maroney, 51, on charges of blackmail and human trafficking charges, the sheriff's department said.
Sex Trafficking2010
United Kingdom GB
Five of the six men were convicted and spent up to 14 years jail time Two men from Peterborough, Slovakian Edward Facuna, 54, and Czech-born Roman Pacan, 39, charged for trafficking a Slovakian teenager to the UK for sexual exploitation and were both sentenced 11 years in jail Turkish-born Ali Arslan, convicted of controlling two brothels, controlling prostitution for gain, controlling a child prostitute and trafficking a teenager to the UK for sexual exploitation, was sentenced for 14 years. a 26 year old spend two and a half years in jail for brothel keeping and a child prostitution offence. He was cleared of trafficking in the UK. Kosovan Martin Doci, 29, was convicted of controlling child prostitution and trafficking a teenager within the UK and received 11 years jail time. 29 year old Valmir Gjetia of Albania was jailed for three years under the changes of controlling prostitution