http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:31:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is a must-read: Teen recounts horror of sex slavery - TODAY: People - MSNBC.com: A typical 16-year-old in a middle-class home in suburban Pensacola, Fla., Newell?s nightmare began innocently enough: A new friend she had met in high school asked her to come to her home for a sleepover. Newell?s ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/10/09/girl-tells-abduction-story-to-nbc/ Police arrest 121 in child porn raids - Europe- msnbc.com:Spanish police arrested 121 people in the country's biggest-ever crackdown on child pornography, seizing discs containing millions of video and photo files shared by a network that distributed them in 75 countries, authorities said Wednesday. Two of the suspects produced ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/10/02/spanish-child-porn-bust/ The UN published a report on the trafficking of children in South Asia (India). Naturally, this is more about the report than it is about actually stopping the trafficking itself. But I don't want to take away from the report's content, which is important: Launching a report on Preventing and Responding ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/08/27/the-un-does-what-the-un-does/ The very fact that this is going on in Saudi Arabia tells us many things about the Saudi culture. Their PR firms can peddle a lot of nonsense about how modern they are, but the Saudis are entrenched in their old ways. Child-protection groups say children are often given away in ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/08/25/8-year-old-files-for-divorce-in-saudi-arabia/ This is an interesting story about the out-of-control gang activity in British Columbia. Among the vices, human trafficking tied to sex crimes appears: Their major centres of criminal operation are Metro Vancouver, southern Ontario and Montreal, the report said. Some of the B.C. crime groups are also involved in human trafficking, ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/08/24/bc-gangs-and-human-trafficking/ From the kansascity.com Crime Scene blog, James Hart posts a press release from  US Attorney John Wood: Ling Xu, also known as "Cherry," 46, Zhong Yan Liu, also known as "Lucky," 36, and Cheng Tang, also known as "Tom," 22, all citizens of China residing in Overland Park, pleaded guilty in ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/08/22/kansas-city-trafficking/ Some law enforcement officials have gotten together to give presentations on human trafficking. It's sad that when I see an article like this, it appears to be Human Trafficking 101 and the narrative is pushed that it's new to everybody and we need to understand what's going on. It's a brutal ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/08/22/educating/ The AP is reporting that 55 men were arrested after an eight-month-long investigation into an online file-sharing operation: Fifty-five men, including a former sheriff's deputy and at least one attorney, were charged with possessing child pornography following an eight-month investigation, authorities said Tuesday. The U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles said the ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/08/21/yet-another-online-child-porn-ring/ British pop star, Gary Glitter, is roaming the world again after being release from a Vietnamese prison. He was convicted in Vietnam three years ago for molesting children and previously convicted in the UK for child porn possession. Glitter is the guy who wrote "Rock and Roll (Part 2)" that ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/08/21/gary-glitter/ This is a bizarre story in that the perpetrator, Jeremy Noyes,  allegedly was attempting to convince a New Zealand woman to raise her daughter as his sex slave. The FBI was tipped off by a classmate via a Web site and then a former girlfriend confirmed the allegations. However, the ... http://humantraffickingwatch.com/portal/2008/08/20/medical-student-also-wannabe-sex-slave-master/