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WEST PALM BEACH — One of the first people charged with human trafficking after Palm Beach County announced a crackdown on the crime in 2017 has received a nine-year prison sentence. Jimmy Edmond, 32, of Port St. Lucie, was one of three men accused of taking a 19-year-old woman from a Boynton Beach home at gunpoint…
LEWISTOWN, PA – The owners of a Lewistown car detailing business have been accused of using forced child labor to run their business. This week, the wife of the now deceased owner was arrested. Attorney General Josh Shapiro today announced the arrest of Ellen Cummings in connection to labor trafficking in Mifflin County. Cummings ran…
There is only one way to describe human trafficking, “modern slavery,” according to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who addressed local leaders during the annual Human Rights Conference. “It is really important that every country, every leadership, every citizenry be completely devoted to the idea that we have to end modern-day slavery,” Rice said…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force gathered Thursday at the Charleston County Government building to hear about new research collected over the past three years about human trafficking, specifically in the Lowcountry. Established in 2018, the Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force is working to bring people of different backgrounds together in…
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force gathered Thursday at the Charleston County Government building to hear about new research collected over the past three years about human trafficking, specifically in the Lowcountry. Established in 2018, the Tri-County Human Trafficking Task Force is working to bring people of different backgrounds together in…
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised to “follow up” on allegations that a person alleged to have been an intelligence agent for Canada smuggled British schoolgirls into Syria. Trudeau’s comments followed a Wednesday report from the BBC detailing the activities of a man who allegedly smuggled multiple people to ISIS and shared…
Six Iowa and Nebraska Trafficked Adolescents Freed in FBI Operation Six adolescents in Iowa and Nebraska are safe following a recent human trafficking investigation. Federal, state and local police in Iowa and Nebraska freed the children as part of a nationwide law enforcement campaign dubbed “Operation Cross Country,” according to a statement from the FBI’s…
Although human trafficking on Guam can involve people who are brought here to work in the sex trade or to serve as laborers, it can also involve Guam residents pressed into modern slavery. A victim advocacy panel is introduced during the Guam Human Rights Initiative’s “Human Rights Conference Series: Human Trafficking on Guam and in…
Recently, our team in Malawi received a call from the police about a 64-year-old woman named Eunice* who was keeping 52 people on her property under the false promise of finding them good jobs and safe accommodations. With the help of the police, our team went to the compound where these people were being kept…
Parents are marrying off their daughters at a young age in exchange for bride price in Ankole Sub-region, Monitor has established. The bride price usually ranges between 10 to 12 cows and an agreed sum of money. The situation was made worse during the two Covid-19-induced lockdowns in March 2020 and June 2021 that saw…
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