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Spain busts ring that trafficked in disabled Romanians to beg on streets as mimes
Spanish police said Sunday they had smashed a trafficking ring that brought Romanians, many of them with disabilities, to Spain where they were forced to beg in the streets dressed as mimes and human statues. Officers arrested three suspected members of the gang, including its ...
An acclaimed U.S. charity operating in Liberia has admitted to major failings after girls at a school set up to save them from a life of sexual exploitation were systematically raped. "We are profoundly, deeply sorry," the charity More Than Me said on its website ...
Black magic traps Nigerians in sex slavery abroad
When lesions broke out on Florence's face, she thought she had crossed a black magic curse that had been cast on her as she left Nigeria to work in Russia's sex trade. Florence is one of a rising number of poor women lured in recent ...
U.S. Border Patrol agent arrested in serial killings of sex workers
Texas state troopers arrested a U.S. Border Patrol supervisor Saturday who they say went on a two-week serial killing spree that left four female sex workers dead and ended only when a fifth woman escaped from him at a gas station and found help. Juan ...
Basketball players handed one-year bans
The four men's national basketball team players who allegedly paid women for sex in Jakarta during the ongoing Asian Games have been handed a one-year ban by the Japan Basketball Association, the organization announced on Wednesday. The ban, effective from the announcement, includes B. League ...
Disgraced basketball players face the music after sex scandal
The four men’s national basketball team players who were penalized by the Japanese Olympic Committee for allegedly paying women for sex last weekend in Jakarta, where they were competing at the ongoing Asian Games, were sent home on Monday and faced up to the ...
Victims of sex trafficking could sue U.S. websites that connect customers to them, experts said, as a new law signals a drive by Washington to clamp down on soaring internet sex slavery. The legislation, passed in April, aims to make it easier to prosecute social ...
Republican brothel owner and Nevada Assembly hopeful Dennis Hof criticizes his 'inept' party
Republican activist Dennis Hof, owner of a chain of brothels and star of the reality show "Cathouse," spent Friday insulting his party after winning a primary for the Nevada Assembly, the state's lower house. The 71-year-old defeated hospital executive James Oscarson on Tuesday and will ...
Former New Zealand sex worker given award in U.K. queen's birthday honors list
Catherine Healy, a former New Zealand sex worker-turned-women's rights activist who successfully campaigned to decriminalize prostitution in the country, was awarded the title of dame to mark the official birthday of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Monday. New Zealand awards such honors twice a year ...
Interpol raids rescue hundreds of trafficking victims in Caribbean and Latin America
Twenty-two people have been arrested and nearly 350 potential victims of forced labor or sexual trafficking have been rescued in raids across the Caribbean and in Latin America, Interpol said Monday. The international police organization said more than 500 police officers in 13 countries were ...
The chief executive of Backpage.com, a website that U.S. authorities have dubbed a lucrative nationwide "online brothel," pleaded guilty Thursday to state and federal charges including conspiracy and money laundering, and agreed to testify in ongoing prosecutions against others at the site, authorities said. Federal ...
