Human Trafficking Is The Fastest-Growing Criminal Enterprise In The World

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On just one station, a former pimp talks about his victims and the sex trade.

“There’s gonna be monsters like me. They’ve been there since the beginning of time.” He doesn’t want to share his name, but he will share his story.

He’s a former pimp. A sex trafficker who spent nearly a dozen years convincing young women in Massachusetts to sell their bodies and give him the money. He tells us it started with his first girlfriend.

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Summit Looks At Role Global Partnerships Must Play In Ending Trafficking

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) — Human trafficking is a $150 billion annual business that affects every country on earth and its eradication requires both traditional and atypical partnerships, speakers at an April 7 United Nations conference said.
The Holy See mission to the United Nations and the Santa Marta Group co-sponsored the forum in which more than two dozen speakers addressed “Ending Human Trafficking by 2030: The Role of Global Partnerships in Eradicating Modern Slavery.”

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How Michigan fights human trafficking

The number of human trafficking cases in Michigan increases each year, but a new set of anti-trafficking laws is attempting to reverse the trend.  

Police uncovered a recent trafficking case almost by accident, as Tresa Baldas reported for the Detroit Free Press. While investigating an identity theft case in March, they entered a suburban Detroit home and found child pornography, a woman chained to a pole by the neck, and evidence of a web-based sex trafficking operation, prosecutors say.

 

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