CSEC2009
United States US
Law enforcement received an anonymous email from a "john" suggesting that Warren may have been using juveniles. Police followed the lead to one of Warren's ads and initiated an undercover sting operation. The sting agent responded to the ad and met the 23 yr old at a Minneapolis hotel bar, where she said she could provide a 16 yr old for an additional fee. Police surveillance captured Warren driving the sisters to the hotel, where the three were subsequently arrested. Tye 23 yr old claims to have been prostituted since the age of 15, and that a heroin dependency kept her in the business. A large amount of heroin was discovered in Warren's car.
CSEC2009
United States US
According to the indictment and affidavit supporting the criminal complaint, from April to May 2007 the defendants coerced a minor girl to engage in sex for pay. The indictment further alleges that Royal: coerced two additional minors to engage in sex, for which he was paid; threatened to harm the girls and their families; struck the girls; and held one of the girls at gun point. On several occasions, Royal gave the girls illegal drugs before forcing them to engage in sex with him. Royal drove the girls to hotels in Gaithersburg, Maryland, or caused them to be transported from Maryland to the District of Columbia, to have them engage in sex. The indictment and affidavit further allege that the defendants provided the girls with cocaine, "dippers" or "ciga-wets" (cigarettes dipped in phencyclidine liquid known as PCP), marijuana, and alcohol before coercing them to engage in sex with customers, and sometimes sold cocaine to customers. The defendants gave the girls instructions on pricing for different sexual acts and instructed the girls to lie about their ages. The affidavit also alleges that Bentolila provided her residence and a vehicle to facilitate the sex acts of two of the girls.
CSEC2009
Australia AU
"Gary John Devine of Moonah was charged under the same investigation that saw Tasmanian politician Terry Martin charged with child sex offences." Gary Devine, 50, “charged with procuring a girl aged under 17 years to have unlawful sex with a man at a house in Hobart” “He is also charged with raping the girl on September 3 and raping a woman on August 9." “He has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has been bailed to appear in the Supreme Court for a committal hearing on February 10.” “...charged with taking and possessing photographs of the girl performing sex acts.” “He is also charged with permitting unlawful sex with the girl after inducing her to be at the house for the purpose of having unlawful intercourse with a man.” He has pleaded ‘not guilty.’ Devine abused media covering the case. all information taken from WA today online
CSEC2009
United States US
DOJ Press Release - 12/24/09 ================= Nashville, Tennessee Woman Sentenced on Sex Trafficking Charges . http://memphis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/me122409.htm . Nashville, TN Cristina Andres Perfecto pleaded guilty on Aug. 28, 2007, to two counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion and sex trafficking of a juvenile in the Western District of Tennessee, as well as one count of conspiracy in the Middle District of Tennessee. . Perfecto’s co-defendant, Juan Mendez, pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking and sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion. Perfecto and Mendez each admitted to fraudulently luring two young girls, including a 13-year-old, from rural Mexico to Tennessee with the intent of forcing them into prostitution. . Both further admitted that Mendez, with Perfecto’s assistance, physically, verbally, and sexually abused the victims in order to coerce them into prostitution. . Nine other defendants had earlier pleaded guilty in this same case for crimes including: child sex trafficking, conspiracy to harbor illegal aliens, conspiracy to commit money laundering, enticing an individual to travel in interstate commerce to commit prostitution, and violating the Mann Act.
CSEC2009
United States US
A 15-year-old Orange County girl who ran away from home after an argument with her mother was kidnapped at gunpoint and forced to turn tricks for her kidnappers for 21 days. The records show the girl ran away after an argument with her mom and quickly agreed to come home; however, as she walked home and passed the Silver Oaks Apartments at Silver Star Road and Powers Drive, a man forced her into a van at gunpoint, reports show. Aleisea N. Smith, 22, and Timothy L. Smith, 39, are accused of kidnapping a 15 year old teen at gunpoint and demanding she turn tricks for them. They remain at the Orange County Jail without bail. Oakland police learned Smith's identity and discovered an outstanding warrant while investigating her for an unrelated incident. She was in court Thursday to face new charges of child neglect and providing false information to police in that other case. Timothy L. Smith already was in jail in an unrelated child-support case when he was charged in the 2007 case, records show. He faces nine counts, including sex trafficking, kidnapping and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
CSEC2009
United States US
Ramon Lopez-Montanez, 39. Origionally from Salem. One of four Lopez-Montanez brothers that operated a big trafficking ring. The victim, Mayra Martina Hernandez-Vargas (15 at time of caputre) was approached by Montanez at her coffee shop in Guadalajara where she worked. He invited her to a party, she got permission from her grandmother, and got in his car. She was taken to a brothel and traveled to LA, Northern California, and finally OR where she tended to the brothers marijuana fields. He was growing marijuana in Otis and Salem, OR.
CSEC2009
United States US
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott & a concerted effort between multiple law enforcement organizations including Pasadena Independent School District Police Department and the FBI. Three-count indictment was returned under seal by a Houston grand jury on 7/8/09 and unsealed 7/23/09 following Davis' arrest. The indictment also seeks to forfeit Davis' interest in a 2002 Mercedez Benz, a laptop, flashdrives, photographs and paperwork.
CSEC2009
United States US
17-year-old Jazmine Finley. the former Carl Hayden High School student worked as a prostitute and recruited and pandered girls as young as 14.
CSEC2009
United States US
8 adult males were using underage girls in a sex operation. The girls were being moved from 5 different metro area locations. The locations could not be specified because the case is on-going. Investigation also found truck drivers transporting women, however, it is unclear if the women were trafficking victims or prostitutes. It is also unclear if the truck drivers were johns or traffickers.
CSEC2009
United States US
"For decades Portsmouth’s secret was an evolving red light district on the waterfront. Famous worldwide, locals talked about it in whispers. But in 1912 a 14-year old girl briefly told reporters about her abduction to a local brothel by an older woman. Although Portsmouth, NH had a thriving “combat zone”at the turn of the 20th century, it remained a hush-hush topic in the local media. Brothels on Water Street (now Marcy) in what is now the city’s gentrified waterfront were simply referred to in print as "houses." Female prostitutes, often underage, were called "inmates" according to one news report, or simply "women." The most explicit phrase of the era used in newspapers was "house of ill repute." Despite attempts to clean up the corrupt area in the Victorian era, local police conspired with bordello* and illegal bar owners to keep the red light district open and profitable. Police who attempted to clean up the area sometimes met a violent response. In 1912 a series of murders drew public attention to the situation in the South End and led to the closing of most houses of ill repute. During that summer a rare interview with a 14-year old girl appeared on the front page of a Portsmouth newspaper. Ethel Duffy was kidnapped while staying with friends in Dover, apparently drugged and brought to a Portsmouth bordello. Constance Perry, 25, her abductor, was held on $5,000 bail for what reporters called "white slavery.” Unable to place Duffy in a local bordello, Perry chose to solicit men on the Portsmouth streets who "assaulted" the girl as she stayed with Perry in a room on Deer Street. Police arrested two men who had reportedly paid Perry for access to the girl who was in "a pitiful condition" when she was brought to the police station. Ethel Duffy herself was held on a $500 bond to keep her available as a witness against Perry. Duffy’s published account, apparently in her own words, offers a rare glimpse inside the city’s flesh trade." From the Human Trafficking in New Hampshire Report issued by the New Hampshire Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.
CSEC2009
India IN
Four people have been arrested in the case including three agents from West Bengal (Dildar Mohammed Younus Hussain (32), Sabina Mohammed Alam (25) and Shahanarabegum Gazi (23)) and the owner of the brothel (Gauri Kancha Tamang (37) who has three previous registered charges against her). The suspects lured the three minors to come to Pune from Bangladesh with the pretext of getting them a housekeeping job and marriage. The girls aged from 15 to 17.
CSEC2009
United States US
Valente Chavez Sanchez,23; Melania "Maritza" Corcino,43; and Jose Altagracia Deleon Corcino,25, operated a sex trafficking ring between 1997 and August 2004 in Raleigh, Fuquay-Varina, and Lillington, North Carolina. They trafficked the women and at least one 14 yr. old minor from New York, New Jersey and Maryland. Sanchez arranged the transportation of prostitutes from NY, NJ and MD. "The women typically would work a week in a brothel in Raleigh or Durham and then be exchanged for other out-of-state prostitutes. The price Sanchez paid for each new prostitute was $130"(N&O). Women were kept "under lock and key" and were not allowed to quit. "Where the minor was found, there were armed guards at the house," Rangarajan said. Corcino "was barking orders and even offered her service [to investigators]"(N&O). N&O, "Brothel Workers Enslaved," - http://www.newsobserver.com/news/sheehan/2005/story/369695.html N&O, "Three Accused of Operating Brothels," - http://www.newsobserver.com/news/wake/raleigh/story/351559.html N&O, "Woman Sentenced in Brothel Case," - http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1090025.html ABC 11, "Uncovering Secret Brothels," - http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news&id=3924744 News 14, "Raleigh Man Pleads Guilty to child sex trafficking," - http://news14.com/Default.aspx?ArID=78154
CSEC2009
United States US
Federal prosecutors said Byron Thompson, 25, and Lea Bell, 29, both of Reisterstown,were sentenced to 10 years in prison for the sex trafficking of minors in Maryland, New York and Washington, D.C. The men were also ordered at sentencing Thursday to register as sex offenders. According to court documents, Thompson and Bell recruited minors to engage in commercial sex acts. They rented more than 100 hotel rooms and recruited sex workers through friends, clubs, bars and the Internet. The pair also posted ads on the Internet to attract sex customers. From January to February 2009, Thompson and Bell prostituted two 15-year-old girls and one 17-year-old girl in Maryland.
CSEC2009
Mexico MX
Yes and No Yes: The head of the Tourist Police Force, Andres Mendez comments that due to their involvement with the trafficking and exploitation of children, they have been able to reduce the visibility of the exploitation of children on the streets. No: At the same time now that there is a reduction of visibility it does not mean that it is not happening behind closed doors because it is. Ana Luz Sanchez commented that the police force does nothing to help these children, however they only get involved if someone files a report. Even then it is highly probable that nothing will be done to help these children.
CSEC2009
United States US
Police started investigating the Wests in early 2009 after an anonomous informant alerted police that students from a Robertson County High School were being hired to work as prostitutes. Federal agents picked up a 16 year old girl in early August as part of an investigation into a prostitution ring. The girl had been recruited and told to tell customers that she was really 18. On Aug. 3, Teresa West checked into a Murfreesboro hotel room and then went to a second room. Later that night, a federal affadavit said, a 16 year old girl went to the first room. She was picked up and later told investigators that she was still in high school. She said that during the summer she had seen clients 20 or 30 times. Typically clients paid her $110 with $40 going to Teresa West.
CSEC2009
United States US
The accused was charged in 1985 with molesting a teen-age girl. He operated Naked City near Roselawn, IN from 1968 to 1986. On March 24, 1986, he agreed to plea guilty to ten sex-related misdemeanors and was given a suspended sentence. He had previously pleaded guilty to obscenity charges in 1982 but according to John Casey, an attorney for Newton County. He later owned and operated a nudist colony, Naked City West, in southern CA. There, he was arrested in 1990 on five felony and four misdemeanor charges including procurring a minor by false inducement for lewd acts and procurement by false inducement for prostitution. In a plea bargain, 28 charges against him from years before were dropped and he pleaded guilty to distribution or exhibition of lewd materials to a minor. He was sentenced up to one year in Riverside County Jail and was to be on probation for five years, fined up to $5000 and have no contact with children or youth other than those whose parents gave permission for such contact, not be permitted to use pornographic materials, and be listed as a sex offender. Male, uses a wheelchair because he suffers from muscular dystrophy 57 in 1990 Formerly of Chicago Ran nudist camps in Newton County, IN and in southern CA Drost’s lawyer blamed his conviction on an attempt to enforce a particular fundamentalist point of view and thereby establish a religion, and sued Newton County, IN for $50 Million and the State of Indiana for $1 billion for alleged violation of his civil rights and similar charges. Agreed to stay out of IN for 10 years Currently lives in Homeland, Riverside County, CA Listed on American Sunbathers’ “Caution List” since 1986 Edits review of national nudist camps & “swing clubs” in the US Acquired “Club Zoro” (founded in 1933 by Chicago lawyer Alois Knapp) from his parents who purchased the club soon after World War II Has there been intervention? Originator of Miss Nude America Contest which was also filmed in 1975 Put in contracts for “Miss Nude America” contest that participants must be willing to sleep with him & meet his every need Originator of Miss Nude Teeny Bopper Universe Contest Sources: http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Drost.html http://ontheslowtrain.blogspot.com/2007/05/dark-side-of-naked-city.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roselawn,_Indiana http://www.revengeismydestiny.com/cult_movies_hot_100_page_3.html(Some of the articles incorrectly say Roselawn, IL instead of IN which is correct.)
CSEC2009
United States US
Local police were first alerted when the second girl escaped, and then the FBI took over the investigation. Brown and Beacham were arrested and tried. Brown was sentenced on Nov. 29, 2010 to 30 years in prison, followed by a 10-year term of supervised release, as a result of his conviction at trial for charges of sex trafficking of children. Brown was also ordered to pay $5,200 in restitution. Beacham pled guilty to felony charges in April and details of her sentencing have not yet been resolved.
CSEC2009
United States US
Sheriff's deputies and the FBI arrested Charles Tyrone Young, 28, in San Marco for using MySpace, Craigslist and other Web sites to lure teenage girls into prostitution. Young goes by the name "Stay Down" and has a home in Las Vegas. Anyone with information about this alleged pimp is asked to call the FBI's Los Angeles office at (310)477-6565.
CSEC2009
United States US
Searchers focused on an area about 6 miles from the last confirmed sighting of Shaniya. She was seen on security video at the Comfort Suites hotel in Sanford, along with a man who police believe is McNeill, last Tuesday morning. The body of missing 5-year-old Shaniya Nicole Davis was recovered Monday afternoon, Fayetteville Police Chief Tom Bergamine said. Sources: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/11/16/crimesider/entry5671683.shtml and http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/18/shaniya.davis/index.html
CSEC2009
United States US
FBI in conjunction with LAPD and San Diego Sheriff's depts, as part of the Southern California Innocence Lost Task Force, conducted an investigation leading to the suspects arrest.
CSEC2009
United States US
A Forest Road man allegedly took in a 14-year-old runaway, promising her food and a warm place to stay after she disappeared from a group home. Instead, prosecutors said, David Tittensor exploited her by arranging sexual liaisons with other men during two weeks in January. Her ordeal unfolded gradually. She had been living at home, but had run-ins with her parents. She was sent to the Charlton School, a group home for troubled adolescent girls in Saratoga County. She had issues there, too, and fled the school with enough money to buy a one-way bus ticket. She had a vague plan to visit a friend in Schenectady. It was a cold January afternoon when she ended up in the Electric City. She wandered the unfamiliar city streets, looking for the apartment complex where her friend lived. It was starting to get dark. She was getting scared. Jason Stapleton, 29, was drinking at a friend's house and saw her walk past on Van Vranken Avenue, not far from Union College. He called out to her, made small talk, offered her a cigarette and a drink. He said he'd give her a ride to her friend's house. On the way, he said he needed to stop to see Tittensor. At Tittensor's house, the two men got the girl drunk on vodka and beer and high on marijuana in the attic. She passed out. Stapleton then raped the girl when she was unconscious. Stapleton pleaded guilty to first-degree rape in March and agreed to testify against Tittensor. He is serving six years in state prison, according to the New York State Department of Correctional Services web site. The girl said Tittensor seemed nice at first. He gave her a place to stay, took her shopping for clothes, even let her pick out her own towels and toiletries. Tittensor shared the house with a girlfriend and an 8-year-old son during visitations. When his friends came over, he sent her to the unfinished attic. Up there, he kept an old mattress leaned up against a wall. All of the alleged sex acts with the girl took place during the first two weeks of January. The girl had initially been reluctant to identify Tittensor, authorities said. It also took time to track down the men who had sex with her, authorities said. Tittensor and six other men have been charged. The men paid between $40 and $80, according to the criminal complaint filed in City Court.
CSEC2009
United States US
Federal authorities have charged Sean Jarae Hart in an 11-count indictment with sex trafficking of a child for allegedly transporting a young girl across state lines for the purpose of prostitution. Sean Jarae Hart, also known as Hush, was in custody in the Portland area after being arrested in Oregon, Assistant U.S. Attorney Jill Otake said. The Trial took place in Seattle.
CSEC2009
United States US
As part of the FBI's "Innocence Lost" inniative, almost 50 juvenile prostitutes, including 10 from Seattle, were rescued during a nationwide crackdown by local and federal authorities on pimps who force children to sell sex for money. The youngest girl rescued in Seattle was 13. Thirty- five adult prostitutes also were arrested in Seattle,as well as two men and one woman suspected of promoting minors in prostitution. The suspects were arrested after supervising girls who met undercover detectives in the 200 block of Sixth Avenue North. No names of those arrested were given in the article. This article also gave information about an arrest made in January of Toda Robinson, 33, who dropped off girls to perform sex acts after the girls, both 15, asked an undercover detective if he was a cop, which he denied. They agreed to perform sex acts for $425. Thus he was arrested with two counts of promoting commercial sexual abuse.
CSEC2009
United States US
Johnson was sentenced to a 21-month prison term, following his plea to one count of promoting prostitution. Clark, whose trial is expected to stretch late into November, remains in King County Jail pending the case's resolution. "He played on everything that I went through," the young woman said, responding to questions from Deputy Prosecutor Christina Miysmasu. "He made me promises that were backed up by promises. I should have known better, because I guess promises are made to be broken. …