Human Trafficking News
Hope for Hope: Kansas sex trafficking victim put behind bars for sex trafficking
A girl that grew up in Topeka, Kansas is fighting to try to get Kansas’s law changed. When she was 14 a family friend who was 24 took an interest in her. He groomed her into believing they belonged together. She is now serving a sentence in the Kansas State Women’s Prison. “Shawnee County prosecutors charged her with 10 felonies and two misdemeanors, including aggravated sex trafficking, claiming although she was once a victim, she had turned into an active participant.” Her and her lawyer are trying to get her case overturned but they need to get a law in the state that’s allows victims to use defense as the reason. Kansas lawmakers are working on the bill that they want to make into a law.
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4 girls recovered from Oregon hotel room in human trafficking investigation
Police have recovered six girls that are minors from a hotel room in Portland Oregon. The investigation started a week ago when officers responded to a shot fired call and a possible abduction that happened on 15th Avenue. Two more girls went missing the next day in Portland. Two adult males were taken into custody.
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Man re-arrested on new child pornography charges
In Waco, Texas a 34-year-old man was arrested last year on a felony charge involving child pornography. He is facing new charges of a second-degree charge. The new charge came when investigators found thousands of child pornography images. Australian law enforcement conducted a raid and informed U.S DHS of suspicious activity.
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Female pimp sentenced to 50 years for trafficking 16-year-old, forcing her into prostitution in Houston area
Houston, TX. Prosecutors were able to convince a judge to sentence Marilyn Joy Wilkes to 50-years in prison after Wilkes forced a 16-year old girl into sex trafficking for a month.
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Exclusive: Airbnb expands pledge to fight human trafficking amid hospitality industry struggles
Airbnb has teamed up with Polaris, who are a non-profit that fights human trafficking. Airbnb has seen a variety of sex trafficking at the rentals. Airbnb has rentals all over the world and they are starting to create a safety training for the agents. In sex trafficking cases that listed where a commercial sex act took place 81.5% were at a hotel.
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Georgia bill looks to ban human traffickers from driving commercial vehicles
In Georgia, a lawmaker has proposed a bill that will ban human traffickers from operating commercial vehicles for life. This bill mirrors No Human Trafficking on Our Roads Act that President Trump signed in January 2018. In the state of Georgia, if you are transporting 16 or more people you need a commercial driver’s license. House Bill 823 would permanently revoke the license of a driver involved in human trafficking.
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News: Perpetrators
Female pimp sentenced to 50 years for trafficking 16-year-old, forcing her into prostitution in Houston area
Houston, TX. Prosecutors were able to convince a judge to sentence Marilyn Joy Wilkes to 50-years in prison after Wilkes forced a 16-year old girl into sex trafficking for a month.
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Sarah Lawrence Parent Accused of Sex Trafficking and Abusing Students
After being released from prison in 2010, ex FBI informant, Ray Lawrence moved into his daughter’s dormitory in NY City. Soon, he started doing “therapy sessions” with her roommates, convincing them that they were broken and need of fixing and that he could help them.
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New York Man Admits Running Drug-Fueled Sex Trafficking Ring in His Parents’ Basement
Raymond Rodio III had been running the drug-fueled brothel, which involved more than 20 women in their 20s, since 2014. He set up dates through Backpage and Craigslist.
On February 4th, Rodio plead guilty to operating a sex trafficking ring in the basement of his parents’ home, where he occasionally locked them inside and forced them to use a bucket as a toilet. He is expected to be sentenced to nine and a half years in prison.
27 men arrested in metro Phoenix undercover child sex crime sting
In Phoenix, Arizona 27 men have been arrested this month through Operation Silent Predator. Phoenix, Mesa, Tempe and Chandler police worked with Homeland Security Investigations and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office on the undercover operation. January 13, officers and detectives began placing ads on websites which are known to predators. The men ages differ from 21 to 69.
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News: Survivors
Making candles — and a difference: Memphis company helps sex trafficking victims
Leah Gunn, has recently escaped sex trafficking after being trapped for nearly two decades, Leah is now working part time at RE+NEW+ALL, candle company in Memphis, TN, is providing survivors of sex trafficking the opportunity to have a new purpose. “In its earliest form, RE+NEW+ALL was not a business — it was art therapy.” Survivors are able to work part time and work on their goals whether it is reconnecting with a loved one or going back to school to get a G.E.D. Although, severe thunderstorms in January flooded their studio, their inventory was saved.
To learn more about RE+NEW+ALL and what they are doing in Memphis visit their website at https://www.renewallcandle.com/
Sex-trafficking survivor talks at Ascension Borgess about experience as a victim
“It’s the same reaction as it was 13 years ago where 90 percent of the audience still has no idea that this happens, and it’s really sad because I work my butt off as well as every one of these agencies and I see hundreds of survivors and there’s still a majority of people that have no idea it happens here,” Flores said.
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Gov. Abbott pardons sex trafficking survivor
While jailed in Austin, TX. Robbie Ann Hamilton asked God to help her quit drugs and to get out of that life. After participating in groups like Alchoholics Anonymous and New Friends New Life in rehab, she turned it around, committing her life to helping homeless addicts.
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Sex trafficking survivors thrive in new Las Vegas environment
The Metropolitan Police Department has a human trafficking task force that includes the department’s vice unit; law enforcement agencies at the local, state and federal levels; Refuge for Women, the Rape Crisis Center, Seeds of Hope and a network of survivors who meet monthly to discuss how best to assist human trafficking survivors in the valley.
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News: Politics
Hawley introduces bill to document scope of human trafficking in America
A law passed by Congress in 2005 mandated that the Justice Department provide research, statistical review and analysis of severe trafficking of persons every two years in order to know the scope of the problem. Unfortunately, only one was ever done, in 2009.
This new bill will mandate that a comprehensive national study on human trafficking will be conducted every two years there will be statistical information available to the public to see as well as help experts in human trafficking to learn how human traffickers are currently operating and how to stop them. Kevin Malone, president of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking, said that these national studies “would be a tremendous help because a lot of people don’t believe the problem exists.”
Trump signs executive order to combat human trafficking as some advocacy groups boycott summit
Washington, D.C.
“The anti-trafficking community received a major shot in the arm this morning with President Trump’s announcement,” said Lance Lemmonds of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking. “President Trump has committed more federal resources and more national focus on combating the systematic buying and selling of our nation’s kids than any administration in history.”
On January 31, 2020, “Trump signed an executive order Friday creating a position within his domestic policy team dedicated solely to fighting human trafficking. The order proposes an additional $42 million in funding for service programs and prosecutions…The order also establishes a federal working group on housing for trafficking survivors and a website listing the government’s anti-trafficking resources.”
Cuomo Vetoes Bill That Would Train Public Transportation Workers To Spot Human Trafficking
New York Senator Alessandra Biaggi noted that “human-traffickers rely heavily on public transportation to move their victims, in plain sight, across the country.” In his veto memo, Cuomo noted that the New York Interagency Task Force Against Human Trafficking already offers a training that “meets the minimum requirements” outlined in Biaggi’s bill.
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Hillsborough forms Commission on Human Trafficking
Weeks after a human trafficking sting netted more than 100 arrests in Hillsborough County, FL. commissioners took a step Wednesday to eradicate forced labor, domestic servitude and sexual exploitation within its borders.
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