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Monday, November 28, 2016
Anti-Sex Trafficking Group Hopes To Raise Money For Second Caseworker
The Polaris Project’s
definition of sex trafficking is the use of violence, threats, lies,
debt, bondage and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children
to engage in commercial sex acts against their will.
In Lincoln, the
nonprofit I've Got a Name works to increase awareness of the problem and
will host its year-end public celebration Dec. 1 at Berean Church,
featuring music and a speech by the mother of a Lincoln girl who was
trafficked.
“My goal
is to say that this really is (also) a men's issue and we’ve got to
change people’s mindset so that this is not acceptable,” said I’ve Got A
Name founder Robert Burton. “Johns need to be prosecuted and girls need
to be treated like victims.”
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H.B. Man, 26, Gets Over 14 Years In Prison For Trafficking And Having Sex With Teenage Girl
A 26-year-old Huntington Beach man pleaded guilty and was sentenced
this month to 14 years and eight months in prison for human trafficking
and engaging in sexual activities with a teenage girl.
Antonio Romano Caserta pleaded guilty Nov. 17 to four felonies, including human trafficking of a minor, unlawful sexual intercourse, committing a lewd act upon a child and dissuading a witness by force or threat, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.
In addition to his prison sentence, Caserta will have to register as a sex offender.
Read more from the LA Times
Antonio Romano Caserta pleaded guilty Nov. 17 to four felonies, including human trafficking of a minor, unlawful sexual intercourse, committing a lewd act upon a child and dissuading a witness by force or threat, according to the Orange County district attorney's office.
In addition to his prison sentence, Caserta will have to register as a sex offender.
Read more from the LA Times
Sex Trafficking Suspect Makes Plea Deal On Cocaine Charges
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — A Massachusetts man who was arrested in May for
allegedly sex trafficking a minor has signed an agreement to enter a
guilty plea on cocaine-related charges.
According to the plea agreement, Lewis Valenti, who was the CEO of West Kingston-based Atlantic Produce, will plead guilty to buying “less than 50 grams of cocaine” from April 2015 to May 27, 2016. Valenti, who has homes in East Greenwich and Reading, Massachusetts, turned himself in on May 30.
Read more from 12 Eyewitness News WPRI
According to the plea agreement, Lewis Valenti, who was the CEO of West Kingston-based Atlantic Produce, will plead guilty to buying “less than 50 grams of cocaine” from April 2015 to May 27, 2016. Valenti, who has homes in East Greenwich and Reading, Massachusetts, turned himself in on May 30.
Read more from 12 Eyewitness News WPRI
Tuesday, November 22, 2016
New Law Could Make Landlords Liable For Sex Trafficking At Their Rentals
County Council member Deni Taveras (D-Adelphi) proposed the bill after receiving complaints from several Langley Park-area mothers, who said units in their apartment buildings were being used as brothels and the property managers knew about it.
Washington Post reports
Prosecutors Aim To Stop Sex Trafficking Without Breaking The Web
The online sex trade didn't disappear when
Craigslist got out of the game; it migrated to Backpage.com, a
Craigslist clone then run by a publisher of alt-weekly newspapers. Soon
after Craigslist's action, a group of state attorneys general sent
letters to Backpage's executives asking it to get rid of the site's ads
for escorts, erotic massages, and other services often used as fronts
for prostitution.
They refused. In the ensuing
years, the company successfully fended off multiple lawsuits and
legislation trying to shut it down.
Read more from Daily Herald
Thursday, November 17, 2016
Human Trafficking Rring Unearthed In Genesee County
Four women, allegedly kidnapped and violently forced into prostitution by Flint brothers Darryl Allen Miller and Chavez Lee Miller.
"All four of the victims alleged that Darryl and Chavez Miller induced, persuaded, encouraged, the women to become prostitutes through their acts of violence against them," Leyton said. "Beating them, choking them, stunning them, stabbing them with needles, and paying them with drugs."
Read more from NBC25 News
Tip Led Cops To Alledged Human Trafficking Hot Spot
“It was just a matter of kind of being nosy, I guess,” longtime Brooks Street resident Kenneth Cutler told the Herald about his alerting police this summer to a house across the street where people were constantly looking for “massages.”
District 14 Sgt. Shawn Burns was more emphatic about Cutler’s contribution.
“It cannot be understated that Mr. Cutler’s actions may very well have saved the lives of these young women,” Burns said yesterday at a City Council meeting where police and councilors presented Cutler with a commendation.
Read more from The Boston Herald
Wednesday, November 9, 2016
Trucker Accused Of Keeping Women As Sex Slaves Gets 20 Years
SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah trucker who pleaded guilty to keeping women as sex slaves in his semi-trailer as he drove across the country was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison.
Timothy Jay Vafeades, 56, sexually assaulted and brutally beat the victims almost daily after trapping them in his truck and forcibly grinding down their teeth, federal prosecutors said.
One woman told a judge that her months-long ordeal began when she got into his truck to go to dinner with him. She started to worry when realized they weren't going toward any restaurants.
"He then said, 'I got you now. You are mine,'" she said. The vampire-obsessed truck driver controlled nearly every aspect of her life, including how she used the bathroom, she said.
MSN reports
Monday, November 7, 2016
Leader of Virginia Sex Trafficking Ring Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison
A man who was at the center of a
violent trafficking ring that sold women and girls for sex throughout
Virginia has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Michael Maynes Jr., of Spring Lake, North Carolina, led a sex trafficking organization known as "Horse Block Pimpin."
Maynes prostituted 55 women and girls in Alexandria, Richmond and Charlottsville, according to prosecutors.
Trial Set for Pastor Charged in Teen Sex Trafficking Ring
Formal charges were brought Monday against a South Florida pastor accused of running a sex trafficking ring involving teens.
Ron Cooper, a youth pastor at Good News Baptist Church in Little Haiti, appeared at an arraignment hearing in Miami.
Read more from NBC6 News
Topeka Man Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy In Interstate Sex Trafficking Case
Beall said in a news release Barry M. Johnson of Topeka pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy.
In his plea, Johnson admitted to conspiring with co-defendants to run a Topeka-based prostitution business. The business operated in Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska, Beall said in the news release.
Read more from KWCH12
Pope Francis Lauds Women Religious In Fight Against Trafficking
Pope Francis met in Rome with a unique group involved in the fight
against human trafficking, where he noted the particular contributions
of women religious, which often go unnoticed.
“Your activity in this area reminds us,” the Pope said Nov. 7, of ‘the enormous and often silent efforts which have been made for many years by religious congregations, especially women's congregations, to care for those wounded in their dignity and scarred by their experiences.”
Read more from EWTN
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
7 Men Accused in Sex-Trafficking Ring in U.S. and Mexico
Seven men have been indicted on sex trafficking charges in
what federal officials said on Tuesday was an international
organization that exploited adult and underage women for more than a
decade in Mexico and the United States.
Four
of the men — identified as Efrain Granados-Corona, 41; Alan
Romero-Granados, 24; and the brothers Pedro Rojas-Romero, 37, and Emilio
Rojas-Romero, 34 — were arrested in Mexico by the authorities there
last week. Raul Romero-Granados, 32, and Isaac Lomeli-Rivera, 34, were
arrested in the United States, the United States attorney’s office in
Manhattan said. The seventh man, Juan Romero-Granados, brother of Alan,
remained a fugitive.
All seven could face life sentences in federal court in New York on charges of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
Read more from The New York Times
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