Sex Trafficking2010
Serbia RS
Convicted in 2005 in Serbia for 4 years in prison for the trafficking and forced prostitution of 11 Moldavian women. Convicted in 2008 in Bologna Italy for 17 years in prison for human trafficking and associating with the mafia, as well as a fine of 150,000€. Primary Sources: •http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/world_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/world.asp&fdate=13/03/2010 •http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/notorious_balkan_trafficker_gets_four_years Secondary Source: •http://dalje.com/en-world/serbia-jails-balkan-human-trafficking-kingpin/297648
Sex Trafficking2010
South Africa ZA
The parents of this 13 year old girl sold her to a 24 year old. She was originally from Maputo, Mozambique. Apparently, he paid ilobolo for her. He would lock her up all day while he went to work. Here is what the article has to say: The girl told how her "husband" was very strict. "He locks me in the house all day. I am not allowed to go outside and speak to other people. If he sees me with someone else he beats me." "He promises to let me call my parents back home but never keeps his word," she said. He also prevented her from seeking help by bribing her with food, clothes and money. She said she wanted to go back home and return to school. She was in Grade 4 when she left.
Sex Trafficking2010
South Africa ZA
The Mozambican police say they have arrested seven people suspected of trafficking women to neighboring South Africa to work as prostitutes. Ms. Mahumane said the women were on sale for about $670 each. The police say the trafficking syndicate has 15 Mozambicans and several Chinese citizens. Two suspects said they were also trafficking Chinese women to South Africa.
Sex Trafficking2010
Sweden SE
A 61-year-old Swedish man procured customers for a 17-year-old Slovakian girl for the purpose of sexual exploitation. He has previously been sentenced for procuring in 2005, he had a brothel in his house 2005. A 38-year-old man from Slovakia, living in Malmö. He has been organising the prostitution of the girl. He has been suspected of procuring several times before, but there have been no convictions. A 26-year-old man that met the 17-year-old girl in Slovakia when she had been thrown out by her family. The man promised to take her to Germany where she would earn money picking strawberries, but he sold her into prostitution and then later on to Denmark and the end destination was Staffanstorp in Sweden. He lied about the money that she was promised. He drove her to customers.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Most of the defendants were arraigned yesterday in State Supreme Court on Staten Island before Justice Leonard P. Rienzi, who set bail for Mr. Farella at $400,000. He set bail for Mr. Pioppo at $80,000 and for Mr. Galbo at $40,000. Mr. Farella's lawyer, Vincent J. Romano, said he and his client knew about the investigation since the first search warrant in the investigation of the prostitution ring was executed in October 2002. But Mr. Romano insisted that his client's businesses were lawful and that he was unaware that anyone who worked for him was exchanging sex for money. ''It was a business,'' Mr. Romano said. ''It was a legitimate business.'' He said his client ''didn't authorize, force or coerce'' anyone to take part in any illegal activity. ''If it happened, my client didn't know it happened,'' the lawyer added. The women were dispatched from storefront offices in Staten Island and from a Brooklyn apartment and would be dropped off by the limousine drivers, mostly in Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, the law enforcement official said. Two women would ride with each driver, and they would work 12-hour shifts, the official said. They carried a device inside the car to make an imprint of customers' credit cards, the official said. At the end of the night, most of the drivers and the women would come together to settle up at a Dunkin' Donuts shop or a diner in Brooklyn, with as many as six of the cars parked outside as the credit-card receipts and cash were counted and the women were given their share of roughly one-third of the proceeds, the official said.
Sex Trafficking2010
Australia AU
After being arrested for "sexual servitude," Ms Netthip also pleaded guilty to a number of immigration offences. Ms Netthip was sentenced on 30 July 2010 to two years and three months imprisonment for the sexual servitude offences, with a non-parole period of 13 months. In relation to the migration offences she received a three-and-a-half year good behaviour bond. As stated above, between about August 2005 and March 2008, Ms Netthip conducted a business through which she organised the placement of 11 Thai women in brothels in Australian cities, including Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong, Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide and Perth. Each women was recruited in Thailand. A Thai facilitator arranged passports and visas and made travel arrangements. Each women agreed that, once in Australia, she would repay a "debt" of $53,000. On average, a complainant took about six months to repay her debt. Ms Namthip Netthip worked to fraudulently assist the Thai women to receive refugee status in Australia. Ms Netthip provided her with false factual information about the conditions that they had experienced in Thailand. The offender coached complainants about the manner in which they should respond to questions posed by DIAC officers. Once one of the Thai women had applied for a protection visa, she was entitled to work while she awaited the outcome of the immigration assessment. This incident was reported by the Media in Australia, see, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/07/30/.htm and by the University of Queensland - TC Beirne School of Law - Human Trafficking Working Group - Case Reports - Case Name - R v Namthip Netthip - current on August 12, 2010. For further information see the court report at the following address - http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/dcjudgments/2010nswdc.nsf//086afd561dfad40fca2577700002d911?opendocument
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
A woman picked up as part of a Metro police internet prostitution sting claims a south Nashville man coerced her into prostituting herself. The 22 year old victim told police that she met Donnell Minor, 34,in the University Court area of the Tony Sudekum public housing development. She said that the suspect paid the victim's sister $150 to watch her two children and promised to take her to Miami. Instead of Miami, the suspect allegedly took her to a Harding Place motel, told her that she now worked for him, and that he intended to advertise her services on the Internet, according to police. Police said the victim told them she went along due to threats and the fact that Minor knew where she lived.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Police sent undercover officers into the spa as clients. According to the report, the officers were offered sexual acts if they paid. Police also found advertisements for the business online, although it wasn't clear that the advertisements were for sexual acts. Arrested were Min Ye, 37, and Wendy Yao, no age given. No charges have been filed.
Sex Trafficking2010
Canada CA
WaiChi (Michael) Ng, Vancouver. Accused of trafficking 2 Chinese women into sex trade. Was acquitted on trafficking charge, sentenced on prostitution-related charges. Sentenced to 9 months for two counts of falsifying immigration documents and extra 6 months for keeping bawdy house and two counts procuring person to have illicit sexual intercourse.
Sex Trafficking2010
Canada CA
Police charged a Toronto man with human trafficking after a woman was forced to perform sex acts for drug money. Acting on a tip, York Regional Police launched their investigation in December after arresting a man in Vaughan for an unrelated matter. The 28-year-old woman was forced to “do sexual acts in order to obtain some money,” said Det.-Sgt. Henry Deruiter. Investigators also alleged the woman was forced to help a man commit crimes. Investigators were told there are at least a couple of other victims connected to the case. Officers want to find them. “We don’t know where they are, GTA I’d say,” he said. Mark Stewart, 49, faces many charges, including trafficking in persons, assault, and three counts of sexual assault.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Trafficker(s)receieve women from NYC and drives them to NJ strip club.
Sex Trafficking2010
Brazil BR
Original source translated using googletranslate.com: 20 women and 4 men were found in ‘degrading conditions’ and subjected to ‘exhaustive days’ described as similar to slavery (according to art. 149 of the Penal Code). They were held in sexual exploitation and debt bondage at a nightclub in the “Zero KM” region of Mato Grosso. All the survivors were between 18 and 23 years old. They did not receive the paid weekly rest required by law, and their salary was paid in “chips” which could be exchanged for overpriced products from the store in the club. Some workers had signed contracts which meant that they could not leave the premises until their debt had been paid. The women lived in overcrowded conditions with poor ventilation and fire protection. The sanitary conditions were inadequate and did not comply with hygiene standards.
Sex Trafficking2010
United States US
Police acted on tips of about a prostitution ring, "deputies raided a house on U.S. Highway 301 and found one woman. Information from that raid led them to arrest Chavez at his residence at 2101 Fair Place in Wilson. Two women were found at Chavez's residence, but investigators believe that three or four women lived there, Gay said." http://www.wral.com/news/news_briefs/story/6977322/
Sex Trafficking2010
Canada CA
38 year old woman befriended the 21 year old aboriginal female victim after she had moved alone to Winnipeg from northern Manitoba. The woman took the victims personal items and identification, confined her, assaulted her and forced her to prostitute herself, withholding all of her earnings.
Sex Trafficking2010
South Korea KR
18 yr old female child (Korea constitutes a minor as 19yrs and younger) forced into prostitution by traffickers. The exact details of intervention are not clear in the article.
Sex Trafficking2010
China CN
The trafficker was a boyfriend of the girl in this small village in South Western China. For a living, the man removes warts of local farmers. He offered to take her to his see his parents, but ended up selling her to a man in Hohhot, Mongolia. The girl was often beaten and raped during the 32 months she was trafficked.
Sex Trafficking2009
Ghana GH
James was sentenced to 17 years imprisonment, while Chou and Sam were sentenced to 12 years imprisonment each. James was sentenced to two years imprisonment on the charge of conspiracy and 15 years on the charge of human trafficking, while his wife was sentenced to two years imprisonment and 10 years imprisonment on the charges of conspiracy and human trafficking, respectively. Sam was jailed two years for conspiracy and 10 years for abetment. Their sentences are to run consecutively. The court ordered the deportation of the convicts after serving their terms. It also ordered that the $14,560 which was found in James’s house on February 14, 2009, the day of the arrest, must be paid into the human trafficking fund and part must be used to pay the amounts James owed the victims.
Sex Trafficking2009
Ghana GH
Accra, June 23, GNA - A Circuit Court in Accra on Monday found three Chinese who were busted for transporting and trafficking 10 Chinese girls to engage in the sex trade in Ghana, guilty and handed down various jail terms on them.
Sex Trafficking2009
Ghana GH
With a monthly income of GH¢150 in Ghana, a bread baker’s dream of earning more money in Russia as a nanny turned sour when she found herself lured into prostitution. Desperate to travel, she abandoned baking and was trafficked. On her arrival in Russia, where she thought she would be working as a nanny, she was housed with some Ghanaians and Nigerians for two weeks after which her passport was seized and she was given a cell phone, taxi fare, and an address at where she was to start work. It was not until she arrived at the address that she found out that she was to work as a prostitute, and had to on the spot sexually satisfy three men. Mr Eric Peasah, Counter-Trafficking Field Manager of the International Organisation of Migration narrated the ordeal of the bread baker at a media forum on human trafficking in Accra.
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
A 19-year-old man charged with "pimping" the services of a 16-year-old girl on the popular Craigslist Web site and forcing her to have sex with him made his initial court appearance yesterday. Advertisement Marcus X. Arrington of Halawa is charged with first-degree promotion of prostitution and second-degree sexual assault. His bail was set at $50,000 and he is scheduled to appear at a preliminary hearing tomorrow. Also charged with Arrington are Anthony Fuller and Brad Y.K. Young. Both also are charged with promoting prostitution, while Fuller was charged with third-degree promotion of a dangerous drug and Young with third-degree promotion of a detrimental drug.
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
HTRA conducted an investigation into reports that human trafficking involving prostitution and drug dealing were occurring at La Potra Bar on the 6100 block of Airline in Houston, TX. As a result, all four Honduran nationals were arrested in Oct 2009 and charged by criminal compliant with conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine. The fourth man from Mexico was charged with Alien Smuggling. All men plead guilty to the offense charged to them, accept the 46 year old male, who committed suicide while in federal custody pending charge for Human Trafficking. In the FBI press release, U.S. Attorney Moreno had this to say about this case: "Often, victims of human trafficking who are forced into prostitution or forced labor are also forced to endure living and working among alien smugglers and drug dealers. This case, in which five defendants were arrest for various criminal offenses, illustrates the dark world within which the human trafficking victims are forced to exist until rescued or until they can escape, but it also demonstrates our continued commitment to rescue the victims and to prosecute not only the human trafficker but other offenders as well."
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
Los Angeles Police received a call from Cherise's mother after she called her mother when she was stuck in a hotel room with Green. The case was investigated by the Beaverton police force as well. The Oregon Trafficking Task Force, a group of federal and local agencies also took part in the investigation. The case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Kerin. U.S. District Court Judge Garr M. King was responsible for the sentencing of Green to six years in federal prison and three years of heavy surveillance following the prison sentence.
Sex Trafficking2009
United States US
The indictment indicates that the FBI was intercepting Mujahid's telephone calls for at least five months. In one conversation, Hooks was overheard asking Mujahid "if there were any new girls with whom he could have sex," the indictment charged. . UPDATE The Anchorage Police Department Vice Unit, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Internal Revenue Service–Criminal Investigation conducted the investigation leading to the indictment in this case. They were assisted by agents and detectives from the Innocence Lost Task Force and the Alaska Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force. The case is being prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's Office with assistance from the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section of the Justice Department's Criminal Division and the Criminal Section of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. . The indictment charges: * two counts of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children and by force, fraud and coercion; * two counts of sex trafficking of children and by force, fraud and coercion; * one count of attempted sex trafficking of a child and by force, fraud and coercion; * six counts of promoting prostitution of children; * eight counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; * ten counts of promoting prostitution; two counts of attempted sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; * two counts of possession of child pornography; * one count of sexual exploitation of a child—production of child pornography; * one count of tampering with a victim; * one count of conspiracy to defraud the government–filing false tax returns; and,five counts of identity theft. The 41-count superseding indictment names Mujahid, age 52, Greene, age 38, Marshall, age 21, and Hooks, age 50, as the defendants. Not all of the defendants are named in each count.
Sex Trafficking2009
Greece GR
Four Greek police officers as well as 25 other people were arrested under the suspicion of trafficking approximately 300 women from all over Eastern Europe to Athens. The women were placed in nightclubs and strip clubs, private homes and unlicensed brothels. The police officers allegedly helped supply these women with false identification documents and tipped off nightclub owners about planned police vice raids.