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United States US
John France Gonzales beat and molested a 12 year old girl for four years. The abuse began in San Bruno, CA in 2002. Eventually, the girl was brought and held captive in his basement in Daly City for 18 months. She was used as a sex slave. His parents were unaware she lived there. Her parents filed a missing persons report.
United States US
"Deputies discovered marijuana in the house and obtained a search warrant with the assistance of the Winneshiek County Attorney's office. Later the same day, Smith and Helen Inez Taylor, 29, 2322 Ranch Road, were taken into custody and charged with possession with the intent to deliver a controlled substance (marijuana) and violation of the drug excise tax. As their investigation continued, deputies learned that the 17-year-old girl had been physically and sexually assaulted, leading to charges of first-degree kidnapping, second-degree sexual abuse and human trafficking being filed against Smith. Smith pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse and human trafficking charges in April. Last Tuesday, Smith was sentenced in Winneshiek County District Court to 25 years for second-degree sexual abuse, 25 years for human trafficking, five years for possession of a controlled substance and five years for violation of the drug excise tax on unlawful controlled substances. The sentences are to be served concurrently, and according to Winneshiek County Attorney Andy Van Der Maaten, Smith will serve a minimum of 17.5 years. The Winneshiek County Sheriff's Department was assisted in its investigation by the Allamakee County Sheriff's Department, the Decorah Police Department, the Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation, the Iowa Division of Narcotics Enforcement, the Iowa Attorney General's office and Winneshiek County Attorney's office." -The Decorah Journal http://www.decorahnewspapers.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=23062&SectionID=2&SubSectionID=13&S=1
Timor-Leste TL
There are ten suspects, including one woman, involved in the human trafficking ring in Dili. Names and details of these suspects are not known. The suspects lured the women into traveling to Timor-Leste on the pretext they would have legitimate jobs as waitresses or masseuses. Once in the country they were forced to provide sexual services.
United States US
In Fulton County, Ismaiel Pachico, 35, was charged with sexual conduct with a person under the age of 16, and Mezia Sinforiano, 61; Francisco Baltazar, 32; Pablo Trigueros, 60, and Wilmar Velasquez Bravo, 20, were charged with unlawful sexual conduct with a minor.
Canada CA
YES! The 21 year old Haitian victim from Montreal, who had recently emigrated to Canada 8 months ago, was “romantically involved” with her perpetrator for two months before she moved to Toronto into an apartment he had set up for her. They went out for a date after dropping off her 3 year old child with a babysitter he had previously designated (she gave her daughter over to him and he dropped the child off). After dinner, it was at that point that he told her she was going to be a prostitute for him, and if she tried to call the police or try to leave, she wouldn’t see her daughter ever again. After being forced to have sex with up to four men everyday in the apartment for several weeks, the victim attacked her “pimp” one day and in turn was severely beaten by him. He fled after beating her up and she called 911. He was arrested on April 28th, 2009 by the Peel Regional Police and is facing up to 10 charges, including living off the avails of prostitution, procuring illicit sex, assault, forcible confinement, and death threats. He hasn’t however been charged with trafficking which has trafficking experts outraged. The victim has since been freed, yet there are no reports on any counselling, rehabilitation, or care for the victim. The child as of April 30th, 2009 was found and was with Children’s Aid Society.
United States US
Frank M. Lombard, 42, was arrested last week at his home in Durham, North Carolina. During an Internet chat, Lombard allegedly offered the child to the person he was chatting with, who was a task force officer from Washington's Metropolitan Police, the FBI said in a statement. Lombard is the associate director of Duke University's Center for Health Policy, but was placed on unpaid administrative leave, effective immediately, last week, university spokesman Keith Lawrence said. The chat was initiated after a confidential source facing child pornography charges told authorities they had witnessed a man, allegedly Lombard, performing sex acts on a child over the Internet. During the chat, according to the complaint filed against Lombard, he told the officer that he had performed multiple sex acts on the boy and that the officer could do the same if he came to Durham.
United States US
Joey Haring and Bradley Pryor picked up two 16 year olds and a 17 year old girl and took them to an East Memphis motel, offering them money for sex. According to court records, the men also hoped to sell one of the teens using an internet ad.
United States US
According to the limited information online, the police investigation began "after receiving complaints from parents." Another report noted, " Authorities have been investigating the case since last summer after receiving a tip about the baby sitter's activities." On 1/28/09 the police then arrested, Aaron Zendejas. He was arrested and later plead guilty to committing a lewd act on a child and production of child pornography, and admitted an allegation that, for a couple of hundred dollars, he kidnapped the toddler in June 2008 so co- defendant Jared Yaffe could molest the boy. Zendjeas went on to plead guilty on 10/28/09 and waived his right to a trial. He was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison by Judge David Danielsen The victim’s mother knew Zendejas for at least 10 years, since they were both 14 years old, and trusted him with the care of her child. According to family members, she was in a time of need when she asked Zendejas to help her out. The man Zendejas admitted to selling the child to, Jared Yaffe, is accused of molesting the boy and videotaping it. Yaffe is set to go to trial in 4/19/2010. Yaffe had originally fled to Brazil, but was located and extradited by the Brazillian police in 5/09. The San Diego police searched his home and allegedly found numerous photos of children engaged in sex acts on his computer and cell phone, according to court documents. Yaffe is charged with multiple felony counts, including child sexual assault and kidnapping charges involving three children. Yaffe allegedly persuaded the toddler in the El Cajon hotel room to perform a sex act on him by promising to take the child to McDonald's. Two videos found by authorities allegedly show Yaffe molesting the boy in an El Cajon hotel room, according to court documents.Yaffe faces up to 129 years to life in prison if convicted of child molestation, kidnapping to commit sexual acts and production of child pornography.
Nigeria NG
The traffricker was arrested by Enugu police and will soon be arraigned in court. The investigation is continuing. More information:http://poundpuplegacy.org/node/41655?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
United States US
seven underage girls were rescued
United States US
A five year old girl, Shaniya Davis, was reported missing on November 10th (Tuesday), 2009. Her mother was the one who reported that she had been abducted. Originally, her mother Antionette Davis had accused her boyfriend, Clarence D. Cole, of kidnapping Shaniya, and he was arrested and charged with kidnapping on Wednesday 11th, 2009. However, on Friday, November 13th, 2009, a man named Mario Andrette McNeil turned himself into police with a confession of kidnapping Shaniya. Police found survellience of McNeil with Shaniya taking her into a Stanford hotel at 6:11am, which is a two hour drive from Fayetteville, NC where she is from (this showed an inconsistency in the timing that her mother reported). At 9:12pm Staurday, November 14th, police charged Antionette Davis, Shaniya's mother, with human trafficking, felony child abuse, prostitution, filing a false police report, and resisting, obstructing or delaying justice. On Monday afternoon, November 16th, Shanyia was found dead on the side of highway 87 in North Carolina. The official cause of death was asphyxiation and autopsy results show that she was also raped. Further investigation showed that Shaniya's mother allegedly sold her into prostitution for monetary gain with the knowledge that she would be used for sex. Her father has suggested that the motive behind selling Shaniya was to pay off a drug debt. The case is ongoing and neither Antoinette or McNeil have been prosecuted yet. Both of their trail dates are set for late January, 2010.
United States US
The case is being investigated by the FBI and Lakewood Police Department as part of the Innocence Lost Task Force. Substantial assistance was provided by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) and Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Corps. The case is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kate Crisham and Bruce Miyake. Hospedale is charged with Sex Trafficking of a Child and Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Child. Sex Trafficking of a Juvenile is punishable by a mandatory minimum ten years in prison up to life in prison, a $250,000 fine and five years of supervised release. The charges contained in the complaint are only allegations. A person is presumed innocent unless and until he or she is proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law. CASE UPDATE: Hospedales pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on July 20, 2010, to Sex Trafficking of a Child and Attempted Sex Trafficking of a Child: Agreeing that the parties would advocate for a term of imprisonment of between ten to fifteen years in prison. A Sentencing on October 25, 2010, U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle may impose the sentence he believes is appropriate from the mandatory minimum of ten years imprisonment up to the statutory maximum of life in prison. Under the terms of the plea agreement, Hospedales is required to register as a sex offender when released from prison. The U.S. Army is in the process of dishonorably discharging Hospedales from the military.
United States US
" Officers busted a massage parlor at Fresno and Gettysburg this week, and found evidence that young immigrant women from China may have been forced to work as prostitutes at the New China Massage parlor at Fresno and Gettysburg. We've been told it was a busy place, with customers coming in every half an hour, day and night. With different groups of young Asian women providing massages, and police say prostitution. By the signs in the window it looks like a place to get a foot massage. But Fresno Police believe this place was selling sex. Numerous complaints and tips that there may be illegal activity going on, specifically prostitution," said Jeff Cardinale, Fresno Police Spokesperson."
United States US
A state grand jury has indicted 15 illegal immigrants on suspicion of operating a prostitution ring that dates back to at least 2006. Colorado Attorney General John Suthers told 7NEWS that the group operated 11 brothels in Denver, Longmont and Glenwood Springs. Suthers said the brothels operated under the name Mi Casa Su Casa and were headed by Sonia Montoya-Cadena. At each location, the indictment said, the brothels would collect $40 to $50 from each patron for 15 minutes of sex. The house would split the money with the prostitutes. After the patrons paid for sex, they would receive a glass bead or other object to give the prostitutes to show they had paid, the indictment alleged.
United States US
No information released other than boyfriend of victim. He sold his then 14-year old girlfriend to 7 adult males for meth. She fought back but was overpowered because she had been bought.
United States US
Justin Cephus, 31, Stanton Cephus, 28, and Jovan Stewart, 30, all of Hammond, Haneef Jackson-Bey, 20, of East Chicago, and Delbert Patterson, 19, of Steger, Ill., have been charged with conspiring to commit and committing sex trafficking and prostitution violations. The indictment charges all five with participating in the conspiracy and committing one or more offenses involving the sex trafficking of minors, the transportation of minors across state lines for the purpose of prostitution, the sex trafficking of adult women through the use of force, fraud, or coercion, and the transportation of minor and adult women form Indiana to Illinois and from Illinois to Indiana for the purposes of prostitution. Prosecutors say the defendants were brutal with the prostitutes. The defendants and others who were not charged Tuesday punched, kicked, cut, choked and sexually assaulted prostitutes, according to the charges. The defendants intimidated the prostitutes, attacking women within sight or earshot of other women, the indictment claims. The defendants gave the women cocaine, Ecstasy, Xanax and other drugs "as a means of numbing their senses," the indictment states.
United States US
rodney king, 43 and sharon-mae nashimura, 30 were convicted by grand jury of 5 counts of sex trafficking
United States US
Not much information provided, but to see full article, go to: http://www.kitv.com/news/21166323/detail.html " Honolulu police have opened an investigation after a 15-year-old girl said she was forced into prostitution. The teen told police she was held against her will in a Waikiki hotel room in the early-morning hours of Monday and sexually assaulted by the man police are calling a "pimp." Detectives said they have leads as they look for the man described only as in his 30s. He faces sexual assault and kidnapping charges."
United States US
Naim Jorge-Tovar, 33, a Mexican national illegally in the United States has been indicted for sex trafficking of a child. According to allegations contained in a criminal complaint filed against Tovar on July 22, 2009, Tovar romanced a 16-year-old Mexican female, in Mexico, and smuggled her into the United States around April 2009. Shortly after arriving in the country, Tovar told the victim she would have to work in an apartment. She thought he meant that she would work cleaning an apartment. What he meant, according the complaint, was that she would be working as a prostitute in an apartment. The victim was threatened with physical harm if she refused. Tovar kept all the money derived from the commercial sex acts the victim was coerced into performing. http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txs/releases/August%202009/082009Tovar.htm
United States US
4 men and 1 women were charged with trafficking of women and children for commercialized sex. They were headquartered out of Huston but would fly the girls to other states to work. They operated out of several modeling studios and message parlors. They used physical beatings,threats at gunpoint, threats to harm family members, and promises of love and affection to control victims.
United States US
An "agency" (according to an article, nothing else is specified) told the 17 year old girl that she would be provided with a good job in a restaurant in the city of Puerto Maldonado. Instead she was brought to Puerto Maldonado where the 17 year old was forced into sex trafficking. It is in a mining region of Peru where there are many men that work the mines, so there is a high demand for cheap sexual services.
United States US
Naim Jorge-Tovar, 33 a Mexican citizen romanced a 16 year old girl and then smuggled her into th U.S.. Once here he forced her into prostitution.
South Africa ZA
Social worker rescued girl, age ten. The article: Johannesburg - Lesotho-born Thato was brought to South Africa at age three, by a woman she knew simply as "granny". Five years later, her "granny" sold her into sexual slavery. The woman who bought her was running a sex ring that police are still investigating to find out how many children were involved. It's a scenario that South African authorities and child welfare campaigners are already working to prevent during the Soccerl World Cup next year, which authorities fear could draw in child traffickers hoping to cash in on the fanfare around the games. Thato, now 10, was rescued just three months ago by a social worker who brought her to Amazing Grace Children's Home, which houses 79 children outside Johannesburg. The home's founder Grace Mashaba, who explained Thato's story, said her parents probably had no idea that the "granny" would sell their daughter. "That 'granny' doesn't have children, so she keeps asking people, 'Can you give me your child so she can stay with me?' She has a good house, so people trust in her," Mashaba said. Thato at least was able to speak about her abuse. Another 10-year-old Lesotho girl rescued from the sex ring is too traumatised to talk, Mashaba said. An estimated 247 000 children in South Africa now work in exploitive labour, including prostitution, according to the Child Protection Action Plan for the World Cup, created by government's department of social development. Campaigners worry that the problem will grow with the influx of tourists next year, especially as South African schools will be closed during the World Cup, which runs from June 11 to July 11, meaning many children could be left unattended during the day. Families selling own children "Child trafficking is a big concern because of the big economic pull of the event," said Stephen Blight, the head of child protection in South Africa for the UN Children's Fund (Unicef). "All the fans and visitors spending money will create a whole network that criminal networks will want to benefit from." The government worries that child trafficking could increase as poor South Africans struggle for a slice of the $4bn the World Cup is expected to generate. Parliament is due to consider a trafficking law early next year, aiming to prevent children from getting recruited to beg or hawk souvenirs on the streets, or more worryingly forced into prostitution. Rebecca Pursell, a social worker for Kholisa Management Services, a child advocacy group, said the school holidays could add to the problem for children. "They will be loitering around without much activity, which places them at high risk not only of trafficking but of sexual exploitation," she said. In addition to cross-border trafficking from Zimbabwe, Mozambique or Lesotho, many poor South Africans will leave rural areas to look for work in the cities during the games, she said. Mariam Khokhar, of the UN's International Organisation for Migration, said prevention campaigns are already underway, including theatre programmes in rural areas to educate people about the danger of trafficking. "Criminal elements often tend to exploit such events, and there will be an increase in criminality which could possibly include trafficking," she told AFP. For Thato, she will live at the Amazing Grace home for now. Many of children stay at the home until they finish high school, Mashaba said. Most of them have been abandoned, orphaned or abused. Those who have been trafficked from other countries can be repatriated, but often choose to stay, Mashaba said. "Even their own families, they do sell those girls. It's the people that you know that traffic the children." - AFP
United States US
This conviction is the result of Operation Guardian Angel, a unique undercover law enforcement investigation targeting the demand for child prostitutes in the Kansas City metro area. As a result of this investigation, a total of seven defendants were indicted in federal prosecution of the alleged customers of child prostitution under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. During the weekend of March 5 to 7, 2009, the Human Trafficking Rescue Project, led by the Independence Police Department, conducted a sting operation targeting local customers who solicit pimps to engage in commercial sex acts with children. The “children” were advertised online at Craig’s List. No real children were actually involved in the sting.