Archive for November, 2008

If this story proves to be true, human trafficking will get more extensive news coverage than ever before.

Report: Natalee Holloway Suspect Involved in Thai Sex Trafficking:

A suspect in the 2005 disappearance of an Alabama teen in Aruba is involved in selling Thai women into prostitution, a Dutch TV reporter claims. Reporter Peter De Vries has made a second hidden-camera expose on Dutch student Joran Van der Sloot, who was believed to be with Natalee Holloway when she vanished while on a senior trip to Aruba. De Vries won an Emmy this year for another report on Van Der Sloot, 21, in which the student admits to dumping Holloway?s body after she suddenly began shaking and died as they were kissing. De Vries? latest report, which was shown Sunday night on Dutch television, shows Van der Sloot telling someone posing as a sex-industry boss that he can get passports for Thai women and girls who think they are going to the Netherlands to work as dancers, DutchNews.nl reported.

I can see the pain in Natalee Holloway’s mother when she appears on TV trying to push the investigation further. I think I would do the same thing, especially in light of the incompetence shown by the police in Aruba. I wonder now if it was incompetence or collaboration.

New York City Man Arraigned for Sex Trafficking

Alleged Sex-Trafficker Accused of Forcing Young Girls Into Prostitution in New York City:

Federal prosecutors accuse a 24-year-old man of being a violent pimp who forced young girls and women into prostitution in New York City and Long Island.

The suspect was arraigned Wednesday in Brooklyn, N.Y., on sex-trafficking charges that carry a possible life sentence on conviction.

Prosecutors allege that he advertised the services of women between the ages of 15 and 20 on Craigslist.

Court papers state that the women arranged meetings with clients at hotels in Brooklyn, Queens and on Long Island. The girls were paid about $200 for an hour of sex, cash that was then given to the suspected pimp.

FBI agent Evan Nicholas said in court papers that the suspect slept with his prostitutes and threatened them with violence.