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On May 19, 2023, Taiwan’s Legislative Yuan passed amendments to the Human Trafficking Prevention Act (人口販運防制法) which aim at tightening punishments for human trafficking and attempted human trafficking. Main points of the amendments are as follows: 1. Sexual Exploitation: Those who use such means of debt bondage or another person’s inability, ignorance, or helplessness to…
Download Toolkit PDF here Since 2007, over 3,500 trafficking victims have been identified in the Commonwealth of Virginia, resulting in 1,689 cases of human trafficking. Victims in these cases ranged from minors to adults, males to females, and victims of both labor and sex trafficking. This toolkit is intended to be a resource to help…
Right from under the noses of the British Home Office, hundreds of child refugees, seeking asylum in the United Kingdom, are being abducted and trafficked for all sorts of reasons. The British Home Office has been repeatedly cautioned by a multitude of agencies, about the dangers such vulnerable children faced, arriving unaccompanied from their homelands….
BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — The U.S. Attorney’s Office announced that 48-year-old William A. Quinones, of Mayville, was arrested and charged by criminal complaint with transportation of a minor with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and sex trafficking of a minor. According to Assistant U.S. Attorney Aaron J. Mango, in July 2021 the Chautauqua…
LANSING, MICHIGAN: Arisknight Arkin-Everett Winfree was arrested for handcuffing and sexually assaulting an 18-year-old Italian girl by promising her a fake job as a nanny. The 18-year-old traveled from Italy to Michigan for work. Winfree offered her the job via an au pair website, under the pretext of looking after a niece who did not…
MIAMI — Ghislaine Maxwell calls a Tallahassee federal prison home, but the convicted sex trafficker’s secrets are still being closely guarded. A federal court in New York on Monday night unsealed the latest batch of documents from her 2015 defamation lawsuit brought by victim Virginia Giuffre. Like many of the most recent releases of unsealed…
Disclaimer: All persons are presumed innocent until proven guilty. UPDATE (12/13/2022) (KTVE/KARD) — On December 13, 2022, deputies of the Concordia Parish Sheriff’s Office confirmed that they made the seventh arrest in the Vidalia human trafficking investigation. Their latest arrest was 50-year-old Shelton Rice. According to deputies, they initiated an investigation into reports of an…
Muslim marriages under personal law are not excluded from the POCSO Act and sexual intercourse with a child, even if it is under the guise of marriage, is an offence, the Kerala High Court has said. The court denied bail to a 31-year-old man charged under the Act for allegedly abducting and impregnating a 15-year…
MADISON (WKOW) — The Madison Police Department arrested a man on charges related to human trafficking. MPD spokesperson Hunter Lisko said the Special Victims Unit (SVU) arrested Zachariah S. Singletary, Sr. on Saturday after an “extensive investigation.” Online court records show Singletary is charged with: Four counts of trafficking a child Two counts of child enticement…
PTI New Delhi, September 27 President Droupadi Murmu has given her assent to a legislation of Haryana under which every child marriage that has been solemnised will be considered as “void ab initio” (having no legal effect from inception), thus making a marital relationship between a man and a girl aged between 15 and 18…
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