Showing posts with label Pimps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pimps. Show all posts

Saturday, June 24, 2017

NET News: Sold for Sex: Trafficking in Nebraska | netnebraska.org

NET News: Sold for Sex: Trafficking in Nebraska | netnebraska.org:

NET News reporting project on sex trafficking in Nebraska
"Somewhere in Nebraska, right now, there’s sex for sale. Experts believe a lot of the time this isn’t prostitution. It’s someone being trafficked through what’s legally defined as “force, fraud or coercion.” It’s an ugly industry whose victims are mostly women and often children."
"Two new 30 minute NET News documentaries report on sex trafficking in Nebraska."
First of two: “Sold for Sex: Trafficking in Nebraska”. It examines how trafficking happens in the state, the fight to stop it and what is being done to help victims."
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Monday, March 27, 2017

How Texas’ crusade against sex trafficking has left victims behind | The Texas Tribune

"Texas leaders have publicly battled sex trafficking for more than a decade, but they’ve devoted hardly any resources to helping victims."

Read MORE in this excellent investgative series by MORGAN SMITHNEENA SATIJA AND EDGAR WALTERS of The Texas Tribune

This is the first article:

How Texas’ crusade against sex trafficking has left victims behind | The Texas Tribune

Easily located in the article are the remaining three, titled:

In their own words
The portal
The search for solutions


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Special Report: Sex trade battle is now an online war | Boston Herald


"Cops who once ran street-corner stings now fight the sex trade online — using social media campaigns to thwart sex buyers — and stake out the hotels, “massage” parlors and apartments where men buying illegal sex meet the girls that pimps are advertising online."

"They’re targeting “johns” and even young men who have never bought sex with facts about what they’re doing to opiate-addicted girls and women whose lives are controlled by abusive pimps."

"The twin strategies are to deny human traffickers the anonymity of the web, while making buyers aware of the consequences of their actions."

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Special Report: Sex trade battle is now an online war | Boston Herald:


Thursday, February 9, 2017

28 Children Rescued, 500 People Arrested in Statewide Human Trafficking Raids - Times of San Diego



"“We let everybody know throughout the state that … we’re going to aggressively go after the pimps and the exploiters, as well as the johns and especially the johns that think that they can prey on the minors,” said Kent Wegener, a lieutenant with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department."
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28 Children Rescued, 500 People Arrested in Statewide Human Trafficking Raids - Times of San Diego:



Sunday, December 4, 2016

Hiding in plain sight: Chicago neighborhoods fight modern day slavery | Medill Reports Chicago

"“Strip clubs are designed to provide the space and environment in which buyers may purchase commercial sex. Victims of sex trafficking in strip clubs must adhere to extensive, predetermined schedules and are frequently moved between multiple clubs,” says the organization on its website."
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Hiding in plain sight: Chicago neighborhoods fight modern day slavery | Medill Reports Chicago:


Sunday, November 20, 2016

Human Trafficking and Opioid Abuse | Administration for Children and Families

"Dr. Hanni Stoklosa is an emergency physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and Executive Director of HEAL Trafficking. She recently joined apanel of experts to brief the HHS Task Force to Prevent and End Human Trafficking. OTIP interviewed Dr. Stoklosa to learn more about the links between opioid abuse and human trafficking."

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Human Trafficking and Opioid Abuse | Administration for Children and Families:


Sunday, December 27, 2015

‘John school’ law aimed at sex trafficking takes effect Jan. 1

"It was among a raft of bills passed by state lawmakers last spring aimed at curbing sex trafficking in North Dakota, where an oil boom has attracted pimps hoping to cash in on a thriving economy full of male workers flush with disposable income."

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‘John school’ law aimed at sex trafficking takes effect Jan. 1: