CSEC2009
Honolulu, United States, 2009
United States US
rodney king, 43 and sharon-mae nashimura, 30 were convicted by grand jury of 5 counts of sex trafficking
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Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 2009
United States US
Honolulu police, the U.S. Immigrations and Custom Enforcement and the state Department of Public Safety conducted a human trafficking investigation at massage parlors in Honolulu from Feb. 18 to March 3, police said. They arrested a 27 year old man who came after a 24-year-old woman. She came forward and said she was coerced into working as a prostitute for the man who used a firearm to threaten her.
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Sex Trafficking2009
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 2009
United States US
Police arrested Felix Thaxton, of Honolulu, Tuesday on two counts of first-degree sexual assault, two counts of third-degree sex assault, two counts of promoting prostitution and one count of criminal solicitation.
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CSEC2009
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States, 2009
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."
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Forced Labor2009
Houston, Texas, United States, 2009
United States US
Unknown at this time as the ranch where the slavery occurred has not been located.
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CSEC2009
Houston, Texas, United States, 2009
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
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CSEC2009
Houston, Texas, United States, 2009
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.
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Domestic Servitude2009
Houston, Texas, United States, 2009
United States US
Yes. He was employing workers and forcing them to work 14 hour shifts with little pay. Victim was lured by the lie that heéshe would be able to keep her passport and A minimum wage was given to the victim and limited work of 8 hours a day. When caught, Mohammed Abdulazz Al-Zehairi is forced to pay the victim $143,532.20. It does not mention if the victim was deported or not.
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Domestic Servitude2009
Houston, Texas, United States, 2009
United States US
Yes. He was employing workers and forcing them to work 14 hour shifts with little pay. Victim was lured by the lie that heéshe would be able to keep her passport and A minimum wage was given to the victim and limited work of 8 hours a day. When caught, Mohammed Abdulazz Al-Zehairi is forced to pay the victim $143,532.20. It does not mention if the victim was deported or not.
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Domestic Servitude2009
Hudson, New Jersey, United States, 2009
United States US
In what police call "disturbing behavior" that lasted eight months, Carter, owner of First Priority Pay at 50 Harrison St. in Hoboken, allegedly kept the victim in "involuntary servitude" in a cold Adams Street apartment and issued bizarre commands, such as having her call him "Dom," short for
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CSEC2009
Huepetuhe, Peru, United States, 2009
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.
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CSEC2009
Huston, Texas, United States, 2009
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.
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Forced Labor2009
Idaho, United States, 2009
United States US
Rachele Bromley was arrested in May after posting a Craigslist advertisement for erotic massage involving her 16-year-old daughter. The advertisement did not openly solicit sexual favors, but ultimately resulted in a sexual-battery-of-a-minor conviction for a 40-year-old Nampa man and former Canyon County sheriff's deputy named Aaron Hundersmarck.
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Bonded Labor2009
Jamaica, New York, United States, 2009
United States US
Wun Hee Kang and Kyongja Kang, a married couple of South Korean origin who owned several nail salons on Long Island and a bar known as Renaissance in Queens, New York. In April 2003, Kyongja Kang traveled to South Korea to recruit young women to work at Renaissance. She allegedly promised them that they would be paid $40 per day, plus tips, and would not be required to have sexual relations with the customers while working at the bar. Two young women agreed to accompany Mrs. Kang back to New York, arriving on May 30, 2003. Upon arriving Mr. Kang met the cooperating witnesses when they arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport and drove the young women to a house in Flushing, Queens, where they were thereafter required to live. Mr. Kang also forced the women to surrender their passports and their return airline tickets. The women began work at Renaissance the next day, working 6 1/2 hour shifts for six days per week. The women were informed that they each owed the Kangs approximately $20,000 for various travel-related expenses, and were forced to sign promissory notes in the amount of $20,000. They were not permitted to keep their wages or tips while working at Renaissance; all of their income was taken by the Kangs and credited toward their "debt." The women were not permitted to leave the house in which they were staying without the Kangs' permission and were forced to borrow money from the Kangs when they wished to make any purchases outside the bar, thereby increasing their indebtedness. In November 2005, Wun Hee Kang and Kyongja Kang pleaded guilty to the charges brought against them. Kyongja Kang was sentenced to just over 10 years in federal prison Friday for her role in a human trafficking operation. She was also ordered to pay the two victims a total of $90,000 in restitution. As part of her plea bargain, Kang and her spouse are surrendering interest in two homes in Port Jefferson and the Renaissance Bar, as well as nail salons in Selden and Westhampton. Kang is also forfeiting $15,000 in cash and more than $50,000 in jewelry. Wun Hee Kang's sentence is unknown due to his involvement with another case involving the trafficking ring. After he was arrested, Mr. Kang admitted that he sent, Nisim Yushuvayev, an I.N.S. employee, to the Queens apartment to get one of the South Korean woman to leave the country so that she could not testify against him.
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Sex Trafficking2009
Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, 2009
United States US
Allen Brown Jr. of Jersey City, NJ, along with his mother and niece, were holding women in "stable" like conditions for the past 19 years. Mr. Brown's girlfriend was head of the "stables" and made sure the girls were transported to various locations in Jersey City and NYC, along with keeping track of the money the women made. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were saved by Mr. Brown and placed in family members bank accounts. All those involved in the prostitution ring face up to 20 years in prison, and $200,000 fines.
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Forced Labor2009
Johnston County, North Carolina, United States, 2009
United States US
A recruiter from Million Express Manpower, a former labor contracting company out of Mount Olive, NC, lured 30 Thai men to work in Johnston County, North Carolina with a promise of earning $16,000 a year for 3 years. The recruiter charged a fee of $11,000 for each man to "secure" their job abroad. Once they arrived, the labor contractor confiscated their passports and visas. "After about a week living in a motel in Benson, they were moved to a small storage building in Dunn, behind the home of Seo Homsombath, a native of Laos who is president of Million Express." "Homsombath at first contained the men by telling them that, without passports, police would arrest them if they left the property. Later, he showed them a gun, according to both Asanok and the lawsuit. A relative or employee was always at the house to guard them, Asanok said."(Asanok is one of the Thai workers who sued Million Express) "Homsombath delivered food, but it often wasn't enough for all 30 men, Asanok said. They had no kitchen, so they cooked outside on a portable gas burner. By mid-October the farm work ran out, and Homsombath took the workers to New Orleans, the lawsuit says. They spent a few weeks in a condemned hotel, badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, without electricity or clean water. During the day, the lawsuit says, they demolished parts of the hotel they lived in. Asanok said he spent his days tearing down walls and hauling piles of destroyed carpet out of the hotel." "The Thai workers, including Asanok, say they were never paid for their work in New Orleans. Some were so broke, the suit says, that they trapped and ate pigeons." "Thai Workers Sue North Carolina Contractor" - http://www.humantrafficking.org/updates/601 "Workers: Promise became Prison" - http://www.newsobserver.com/100/story/551923.html "Low Pay and Broken Promises Greet Guest Workers" - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/28/us/28labor.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Low%20Pay%20and%20Broken%20Promises%20Greet%20Guest%20Workers%20&st=cse This case is also mentioned in Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter's book, "The Slave Next Door"
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CSEC2009
Kansas City (metro area), United States, 2009
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.
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CSEC2009
Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 2009
United States US
FBI agents in an undercover sting nabbed three Kansas men who traveled to meet an agent posing as a child. Some of the men crossed state lines to do so. The men used either the telephone, Internet or both to entice the minors into sex acts. The FBI will not comfirm if real minors were involved.
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Bonded Labor2009
Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 2009
United States US
According to the Department of Justice, twelve defendants including eight Uzbekistan nationals have been charged in a 45-count indictment returned by a grand jury on May 6, 2009 using RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act). Charges include labor racketeering, forced labor trafficking and immigrations, and other violations in 14 states. Those charged include Abrorkhodja Askerkhedjaev, Nadir Yunusov, Rustamjon Shukurov, of Mission, KS; Ilkham Fazilov, Nodirbek Abdoollayev of Kansas City, Mo; Viorel Simon, Alexandru Frumasche both citizens of Moldova residing in Kansas City, KS; Kristin Dougherty of Ellisville, MO, Andrew Cole of St. Charles, MO, Abdukakhor Azizkhodjaev of Panama City, FL and Sandjar Agzamov and Jakjongir Kakhkarov who are citizens of Uzbekistan but are currently living abroad.
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CSEC2009
Kansas City, Missouri, United States, 2009
United States US
A man who ran a ring of underage prostitutes in Kansas City and Overland Park received a sentence of almost 22 years in federal prison for child sex trafficking. But even though Randal G. Jennings, 43, had pleaded guilty to the single human trafficking count last year, the Chillicothe, Mo., man came close to getting another five years added to his sentence by minimizing his role as a pimp at the sentencing hearing. Addressing the judge, Jennings said he thought the girls were college-age students. He also said he placed their ads on Craigslist and another Internet site so they could meet clients in nice hotels, not on the rough streets. He also said prosecutors had overcharged his case. Jennings’ four working prostitutes were 16 or 17 years old when he was arrested in January 2009. Prosecutors also alleged that Jennings had tried to induce a 13-year-old girl to begin working for him, but she declined. In interviews with investigators, the girls said that they paid about 20 percent of their earnings to Jennings, who often drove them to their “dates.” Jennings also took photos of the girls with his cell phone camera and posted the images with their online ads. -------------------- Primary Source: http://www.justice.gov/usao/mow/news2010/jennings.sen.htm Secondary Source: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/10/06/2285309/man-gets-22-year-sentence-for.html
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Bonded Labor2009
Kansas City/Branson, Missouri, United States, 2009
United States US
This is an alleged case of trafficking released on May 27, 2009. All parties are innocent until proven guilty. Twelve people — eight of them from Uzbekistan — are accused in a federal indictment of luring illegal immigrants to the U.S. to work as "modern-day slaves" in 14 states. The enterprise — based out of companies headquartered in Kansas City, Mission and Overland Park — allegedly employed hundreds of illegal aliens as construction workers and as cleaners and housekeepers at hotels, resorts and casinos in Missouri, Kansas, Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wyoming. Those named in the indictment: Abrorkhodja Askarkhodjaev, 30, Nodir Yunusov, 22, Rustamjon Shukurov, 21, citizens of Uzbekistan living in Mission; Ilkham Fazilov, 44, Nodirbek Abdoollayev, 27, citizens of Uzbekistan living in Kansas City; Viorel Simon, 27, Alexandru Frumasache , 23, citizens of Moldova living in Kansas City, Kan.; Kristin Dougherty, 49, of Ellisville, Mo.; Andrew Cole, 53, of St. Charles, Mo.; Abdukakhar Azizkhodjaev, 49, a citizen of Uzbekistan living in Panama City, Fla.; and Sandjar Agzamov, 27, and Jakhongir Kakhkharov, 29, citizens of Uzbekistan who recently left the United States. Three companies controlled by Askarkhodjaev also were charged: Giant Labor Solutions LLC, headquartered in Kansas City; Crystal Management Inc. in Mission; and Five Star Cleaning LLC in Overland Park.
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Forced Labor2009
Kapolei, Hawaii, United States, 2009
United States US
The owners of one of the state's largest fruit and vegetable farms were indicted late Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice for engaging in a conspiracy to commit forced labor and visa fraud. Alec and Mike Sou of Aloun Farms Hawaii and a thai labor recruiter were charged with human trafficking conspiracy. Aloun Farms Hawaii is the state's second-largest fruit and vegetable farm, employing an estimated 200 people. But the Justice Department says some of the company's labor practices are illegal. The Sou brothers and Thai labor recruiter William Khoo are accused of devising a scheme to hire 44 Thai nationals by enticing them to come to Hawaii with false promises of lucrative jobs. According to the indictment, they maintained their labor through threats of serious economic harm. Other workers at the farm today shared details they were aware of. "This happened about a couple of weeks ago, maybe a week and a half, had couple of immigrant cards that just expired," said Donovan Tangonan, a delivery driver for the company. "Instead of letting them get to renew them - they just detained them right there." According to the indictment, the trio organized for the Thai workers to pay high recruitment fees which were financed by debts secured with the workers' family properties and homes. The indictment also charges the defendants engaged in visa fraud conspiracy and that the Sous confiscated passports and failed to honor employment contracts. Both brothers declined to comment. Workers say they aren't aware of any other problems. "Pretty much everybody here is all legal, other than that we just had a little mishap with those two people," said Tangonan. Aloun Farms annual gross sales are estimated at $8 million. If convicted, Alec and Mike Sou each face maximum sentences of 15 years in prison and Khoo faces a maximum of 10 years. This case is being investigated by the F-B-I and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement. http://www.khon2.com/news/local/story/Aloun-Farm-Owners-Face-Human-Trafficking/ArIJ-vhsZ0K_KF5ohngGeQ.cspx
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Sex Trafficking2009
Kenhorst, Pennsylvania, United States, 2009
United States US
The investigator, who requested anonymity, said the local sex slave operations were controlled by South Korean organized crime rings operating out of the Flushing section of Queens, N.Y.
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Sex Trafficking2009
Kenner, Louisiana, United States, 2009
United States US
Leonarda Martinez, age 53, was charged with human trafficking when a bordello was uncovered where she allegedly charged men $400 to have sex with women, using force, fraud or coercian to force the women to provide those illicit services. During the law enforcement raid, the invetigative team found a bedroom with two mattresses on the floor, condoms lying on a dresser and security bars on the windows.
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