Robert Kraft arrest and the sex trafficking problem: Kevin Malone joins CBSN to explain what can be done about it.
In an interview with CBSN on Tuesday, Kevin Malone, president and co-founder of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking, said that the crime of human sex trafficking is more widespread than many Americans could imagine. Listen to the entire interview
Man charged on accusations of soliciting 14-year-old for prostitution
Tulsa County prosecutors charged a man on allegations he solicited sex for money from someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl. Officers arrested Phillip Wayne Hood last week at a hotel in the 3500 block of South 79th East Avenue under the alleged presumption he was going to pay a minor for sex, according to a probable cause affidavit.
Zonta Club of Longview again collecting bras as part of Free the Girls anti-sex trafficking campaign
Volunteer Morrisa Hatten, left, and program chair Staci Aldredge show some of the bras collected by Zonta Club for Free the Girls, a program providing opportunity for sex trafficking survivors to build their own business selling second-hand clothing while going to school, establishing a home and caring for their families.
Nine jailed after girls subjected to ‘appalling catalogue’ of abuse
Nine men have been given jail sentences of up to 20 years by a judge who heard how two girls suffered an “appalling catalogue of degrading emotional and sexual abuse which has deprived them of their childhood”. The sexual exploitation of the girls, which began when they were placed in a Bradford children’s home, followed what prosecutors described as a pattern “all too familiar in cases of this kind”.
Prostitution survivor in Worcester says it’s ‘about the exploitation,’ not about Robert Kraft
She said that although the Florida investigation involved Asian immigrant women being virtually imprisoned in sexual servitude at spas, the underlying issue is no different from prostitution on the streets of the city.
“It’s about the exploitation,” Ms. Bell said. “It’s not about trafficking. It’s prostitution. It’s the act of being bought and sold. Trafficking is just the entry point.”
Fighting Human Trafficking In Florida
Florida ranks third in the nation for the number of calls placed to the national human trafficking hotline. The charges filed against New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft last week for soliciting prostitution in Jupiter have again put a spotlight on sex trafficking in our state.
Robert Kraft’s arrest shines spotlight on real victims of sex trade
“Unfortunately, it takes something like a Robert Kraft or someone of celebrity status to get the attention on human trafficking that it deserves, said Keven Malone President and Co-founder of the U.S. Institute Again Human Trafficking. Malone also said,“In a lot of these so-called massage parlors that a lot of the women are not there by choice. They are being forced and coerced — especially in this situation, those women were enslaved. This is human trafficking.”
How this nonprofit is decreasing the demand for sex
While in production of “Blind Eyes Opened,” a documentary about the truth of sex trafficking in America through the mouths of survivors. Geoff Rogers met Kevin Malone, former general manager of the Dodgers. The two of them began asking why, with thousands of nonprofits in the fight against trafficking in the U.S., were we losing the battle.
Kraft case casts uncomfortable spotlight on depths of massage parlor sex trafficking in US
Kevin Malone, president and co-founder of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking told Fox News, “Florida’s trafficking bust in massage parlors is just the tip of the iceberg. This is happening all across the country.” Noting that many of the IMBs are managed by Chinese organized crime syndicates, Malone said the women involved “are taken usually to New York, where they are trained what to do.
Robert Kraft is charged for prostitution. Geoff Rogers explains the plague.
“We as a society have got to begin to recognize and understand the magnitude of this problem and just how high the demand is” says Geoff Rogers C.E.O. and Co-founder of the U.S. Institute Against Human Trafficking.
