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Texas and Louisiana’s First Spouses’ Global Human Trafficking Summit – 10.14.21
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Texas and Louisiana’s First Spouses’ Global Human Trafficking Summit – 10.14.21

First Lady of Texas Cecilia Abbott and First Lady of Louisiana Donna Edwards have partnered in the past year to educate other first spouses along with key stakeholders across the country on anti-human trafficking efforts and resources they can bring back to their own states. The latest educational summit in October 2021 was hosted by the Texas Governor’s Child Sex Trafficking…

Global law enforcement collaboration leads to rescue of 6-year-old girl from online sexual exploitation
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Global law enforcement collaboration leads to rescue of 6-year-old girl from online sexual exploitation

An international investigation resulted in the successful rescue of a 6-year-old girl from online sexual exploitation, and the arrest of a suspected trafficker, on June 18, 2023, in Manila, Philippines. Another suspect in Manila was arrested on November 11, 2022. The operations were a result of international law enforcement collaboration between the Philippine National Police…

Aussie woman reveals harrowing life kept as a ‘slave’
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Aussie woman reveals harrowing life kept as a ‘slave’

An Australian woman has bravely revealed the “catastrophic” impact being a ‘modern slave’ has had on her life — something thousands of people around the country still face in 2023. Sarah, whose name has been changed for privacy reasons, grew up in what she believes was a cult “influenced by an extreme religious group”. She…

Five Traffickers Face Up to 15 Years in Prison for Child Exploitation Online
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Five Traffickers Face Up to 15 Years in Prison for Child Exploitation Online

They pleaded guilty to attempted trafficking nearly three years after their arrest in local operations that stemmed from a referral by Australian authorities. The Regional Trial Court Branch 14 in Bislig City, Philippines issued its ruling Feb. 21 2023, after the five traffickers (names withheld to protect the identity of the victims) entered into plea…

5 Traffickers Face Up to 15 Years in Prison for Child Exploitation Online
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5 Traffickers Face Up to 15 Years in Prison for Child Exploitation Online

Five Filipino women who sexually abused and exploited children to make money online have been sentenced to a maximum of 15 years in prison. They pleaded guilty to attempted trafficking nearly three years after their arrest in local operations that stemmed from a referral by Australian authorities. The Regional Trial Court Branch 14 in Bislig…

Chinese Human Trafficking and Sexploitation Ring Busted – HS Today
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Chinese Human Trafficking and Sexploitation Ring Busted – HS Today

An unprecedented law enforcement operation involving different countries has resulted in the dismantlement of an international sex-trafficking ring that held hundreds of Chinese women trapped in debt bondage across Europe. This action is the biggest hit to date against Chinese human trafficking in Europe. On February 7, some 34 house searches were carried out in…

Human trafficking: Police arrest 25 suspects in prostitution industry crackdown – The Brussels Times
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Human trafficking: Police arrest 25 suspects in prostitution industry crackdown – The Brussels Times

Image shows the Federal Police’s human trafficking department at work. Credit: Belga / Maaike Tijssens The Federal Judicial Police (FJP) searched 26 addresses in Antwerp, Charleroi, Louvain, Neufchâteau and Brussels on Tuesday as part of an investigation into human trafficking linked to prostitution, the federal prosecutor’s office said. Twenty-five suspects, including three Belgians, were arrested…

Cellebrite and The Exodus Road Continue Combatting Human Trafficking in Brazil
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Cellebrite and The Exodus Road Continue Combatting Human Trafficking in Brazil

January 30, 2023 published at 12:00 PM Cellebrite and The Exodus Road Continue Combatting Human Trafficking in Brazil In 2022, nine operations resulted in the direct intervention of 152 survivors and arrests of 20 perpetrators of human trafficking Globe Newswire January 30, 2023 PETAH TIKVA, Israel and TYSONS CORNER, Va. and COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Jan….

Defendant Extradited to the United States from Mexico to Face Sex Trafficking Charges
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Defendant Extradited to the United States from Mexico to Face Sex Trafficking Charges

Leonardo Jimenez-Rodriguez was extradited to the United States yesterday and is scheduled to be arraigned today before United States Magistrate Judge Ramon E. Reyes, Jr., at the federal courthouse in Brooklyn on a six-count indictment charging him with sex trafficking conspiracy, sex trafficking, interstate prostitution, alien smuggling and related offenses.  The defendant was arrested in…