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6:30 AM ET The NCAA returns to a federal courtroom Wednesday to continue its fight against one of the many current challenges to its amateurism-based business model. If this slow march toward something more akin to professional sports is starting to feel to you like the equivalent of an 18-play, 14-minute drive engineered by a…
It was good news that Lawrence Ray, convicted of human trafficking in a case involving students at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, was sentenced to 60 years in prison last month for his horrific crimes. He preyed on his daughter’s college friends, employing psychological terror, manipulation, and physical abuse to extort them and use them for…
One in six teenage runaways become sex trafficking victims. Children, in fact, make up 20% of all trafficking victims. The statistics are staggering and tragic. They are motivating factors, though, in January being recognized as “Human Trafficking Awareness Month.” And while awareness is appreciated, it’s only the first step on the road to reform for a…
A lawsuit from civil rights organizations accusing private prisons in Arizona of practicing slavery is now before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals amid a broad left-wing pushback against the use of private prisons and immigrant detention centers. The lawsuit, led by the NAACP, was initially filed in 2020 against the Arizona Department of Corrections,…
A California pastor and his wife were sentenced to prison time earlier this month after pleading guilty to a charge related to what federal prosecutors described as a church labor trafficking scheme that victimized the homeless. Victor Gonzalez, the head pastor of California-based Imperial Valley Ministries (IVM), was sentenced to six months in prison and…
Working in Boston-area restaurants over the last 15 years, Billy often felt like a slave. He was caught in a seemingly never-ending cycle of labor and exploitation, striving to pay off debts, sick from stress and overwork, terrified about being turned over to immigration officials. The 41-year-old Salvadoran immigrant said he started his first restaurant…
A California pastor and his wife will serve time behind bars after pleading guilty to forcing homeless people to give up their welfare benefits and panhandle for up to nine hours a day, six days a week, in what federal prosecutors call a church labor trafficking scheme. Victor Gonzalez, the head pastor of Imperial Valley…
A woman in her 20s was run over by a car by a 30-year-old Boston man she once considered her boyfriend when she attempted to leave after being sex trafficked, according to court documents. Leon Blount III, 30, of Boston, was indicted Thursday and charged with sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion, and three…
A Boston man was indicted Friday for allegedly sex trafficking a young adult and a teenager, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts. Leon Blount III, 30, allegedly pressured, threatened, and transported the young woman over the course of about a year to take part in pornography and engage in commercial sex for his…
Sex worker says ex-Virginia police chief and three other retired cops paid for prostitution and protected a human-trafficking ring that coerced her into the industry from Costa Rica A Costa Rican woman sex worker, identified as Jane Doe, alleged in a lawsuit that four Fairfax, Virginia, officers protected a local sex ring and paid for…
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