Alamance County Sheriff Says 4 Girls Missing In Human Trafficking Investigation

ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. — Sheriff Terry Johnson says investigators are looking for four juvenile girls in connection with a possible human trafficking case.

Two people were arrested last week in connection with an ineligible student-athlete from Nigeria playing for Eastern Alamance High School and Johnson said Tuesday he thinks it is part of a bigger human trafficking operation.

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Human Trafficking Survivor Shattered World Triathlon Record In Symbolic Way

The story of Norma Bastidas is one of triumph over tragedy. She is a woman whose resilience has allowed her to overcome the unthinkable misfortunes life has thrown her way. Bastidas, 49, set the world triathlon record in 2014 covering an incredible 3,762 miles. Her epic journey began in Cancun, Mexico, and ended in Washington, D.C., and took her 64 days to complete. “That was probably one of the most painful things I’ve ever done,” she told CNN in an interview. Her story is getting wide attention now because of the release of a documentary that chronicles her remarkable feat.

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Joaquin Phoenix To Star In Lynne Ramsay's Sex Trafficking Thriller 'You Were Never Really Here'

By Liz Calvario | Indiewire May 11, 2016 at 11:55AM

 

A war veteran works to rescue women from sex traffickers. 

 

It’s been five years since Lynne Ramsay premiered "We Need To Talk About Kevin" and now she is back to direct "You Were Never Really Here" with Joaquin Phoenix to star. 
The film is described as a character-driven thriller that focuses on a war veteran who now works to rescue women from sex traffickers. When he tries to rescue a girl from a brothel in New York, things go horribly wrong, setting off a storm of violence and vengeance. 

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A Florida Man Indicted for Operating Sex Trafficking Enterprise

By: Department of Justice

May 11, 2016

WASHINGTON – Jeffrey Jason Cooper, 46, of Miami Beach, Florida, was charged late yesterday in an 11-count indictment in the Southern District of Florida with sex trafficking and attempted sex trafficking by fraud, wire fraud, importation of aliens for prostitution or immoral purposes and use of a facility of interstate commerce to operate a prostitution enterprise.

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Frisco, Texas Couple Are Arrested And Facing Sex Trafficking Charges After 'offering A Girl $10,000 To Take Her Virginity'

A Texas couple have been arrested and charged with sex trafficking and indecency after offering a girl $10,000 to take her virginity.

Officers in the city of Frisco detained Adriana Aguilar, 33, and 32-year-old Cirino Santiago Delacruz last week after they were accused of offering the girl money for sex.

They are now both being held at the Collin County Detention Center with immigration holds from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

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Man Operating Sex Trafficking Enterprise Gets Life Sentence-Shahid Hassan Muslim, 33, was handed down Tuesday

Federal prosecutors say a man convicted of running a sex trafficking operation that recruited women and girls as young as 16 years old into prostitution has been sentenced to life in prison.

A statement from the U.S. Department of Justice says the sentence for Shahid Hassan Muslim, 33, was handed down Tuesday. A federal jury found Muslim guilty last August of multiple charges, including sex trafficking, kidnapping, production of child pornography, witness tampering and promoting a prostitution business enterprise.

The statement said evidence showed Muslim's sex trafficking enterprise operated in Charlotte and other cities from at least 2010 until his arrest in November 2013. The evidence showed he recruited young women and girls from the Charlotte area and advertised them for prostitution on the Internet.

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

BOSTON (WHDH) -
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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