Sex Slavery ABC News. (2006,

Sex Slavery

ABC News. (2006, Feb. 9). Teen Girls' Stories of Sex Trafficking in U.S. This article features a story about Debbie, a middle school student in suburban Phoenix who got straight a's in school but was kidnapped one night by two men outside her home.

She was forced into sexual bondage. The article quotes the FBI, saying over 100,000

children and young women are in sex trafficking bondage every year in the U.S.

The predators go to malls, beaches, anywhere young girls spend time. Retrieved Feb.

14, 2010, from http://abcnews.go.com.

Administration for Children & Families. (2009) Sex Trafficking Fact Sheet. The U.S.

Department of Health & Human Services published this fact sheet that refers to the U.S. law (Trafficking victims Protection Act of 2000) (TVPA) which makes sex trafficking a serious offence. Victims of sex trafficking are usually promised a good job in another country; or they are given a marriage proposal that turns into a bondage situation; or they are sold into sex trade by parents, boyfriends or husbands; or they are simply kidnapped. They face physical and psychological harm. Retrieved Feb. 14,

2010 from http://www.acf.hhs.gov.

Barber, Mike. (2010, Feb. 9). Vancouver Olympics get an "F" for failing to curb sex

Trafficking: group. The Citizens Summit Against Sex Slavery is a coalition of women's groups, politicians and leading academics, and they claim that "dozens" of younger women were brought to Vancouver to act as hookers for tourists who have come to the Winter Olympic Games. The availability of these women is obvious, the group claims, as traffickers have actually taken out ads on Craigslist offering "erotic services." Retrieved

Feb. 14, 2010, from the Montreal Gazette http://www.montrealgazette.com.

BBC News. (2010, Feb. 12). Police warning to sex traffickers. The story of Oranong Biscoe

who lives in Middlesex England has been arrested for money laundering the proceeds of illegal prostitution. In other words, she was working with sex traffickers in the UK

and setting up a phony bank account process the money. "The jury found her guilty of laundering the proceeds of organized prostitution" including the money she personally earned through a woman who had been kidnapped and forced into sex slavery. Retrieved Feb. 13, 2010, from http://newvote.bbc.co.uk.

BucyrusOnline.com. (2010, Feb. 12). 1000 Ohio Kids a Year Used in Sex Trafficking. The story is actually a report on the problem of sex trafficking in Ohio published by the Ohio

Trafficking in Persons Study Commission. It asserts that a thousand kids in Ohio are forced into the sex trade annually. The report not only explains the problem but it is helpful in that it offers information on kids who would be particularly vulnerable to this kind of evil act. Retrieved Feb. 13, 2010, from http://www.bucyrusonline.com.

Celizic, Mike. (2008, Nov. 13). Teen recounts horror of sex slavery. The story; 18-year-old

Shauna Newell as having been "kidnapped, drugged, gang-raped and savagely beaten."

The story in the Today (NBC) Web site previews a special to be shown on NBC

called "Sex Slaves in the Suburbs." Newell had been abducted on a ruse; a new girlfriend invited her for a sleepover but the "dad" of the new girlfriend turned out to be a guy who was trafficking in young women for the purpose of prostitution. Retrieved February 12,

2010 from Today.com http://today.msnbc.msn.com.

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women. (1999). Factbook on Global Sexual Exploitation:

India. This is an article that claims there were (at that time) 1.3 million children in sex-trade centers in India, Thailand and the Philippines. These children come from very poor communities and are trafficked to communities where people have more money to pay for prostitution. The facts in the article are quite frightening. Besides the horrible facts of child sex slavery there are "hundreds, if not thousands, of Bangladeshi women and children…[being held] in foreign prisons, jails, shelters and detentions centers awaiting repatriation." Retrieved Feb. 14, 2010, from http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/india.htm

Davies, Nick. (2009, Oct. 20). Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution. The Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) in the United Kingdom is the one of the groups that investigates sex trafficking in England. After hundreds of raids though in a six-month campaign, not one person was arrested, the article contends.

This suggests that sex trafficking in the UK has been "exaggerated by politicians and the media." Retrieved Feb. 14, 2010, from the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk.

Express India. (2009, Oct. 4). 25,000 Nepali girls involved in sex trade in Indian cities.

Commercial sex brothels in the towns of Delhi, Mumbai, Pune and Kolkata feature young girls believed to have been kidnapped from Nepal, according to the article. There are an estimated fifty brothels in Pune, and many of them are reportedly owned by adult women from Nepal. In those 50 brothels there are about 500 Nepalese girls working in sexual slavery, the article asserts. This information comes through a report that was intended to get the media interested in reporting these terrible crimes. Retrieved Feb. 13,

2010, from http://www.expressindia, com/fullstory.php?newsid=55901.

Hawaii News Now. (2010, February 10). Hawaii man charged with sex trafficking at Super Bowl. A man who is alleged to be a pimp from Hawaii is being charged with bringing a teenage Hawaiian girl to the Super Bowl in Miami -- and allegedly used her to make money. Fred Collins was arrested by the FBI and was also caught with two adult women. The case broke the heart of the special agent who made the arrests, Tom Simon. "…These cases just break our hearts." Retrieved February 12,

2010, from http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/global/story.asp?s=11965638&clienttype=printable.

Hotakainen, Rob. (2010, Feb. 14). Lundgren seeks to expand Megan's Law beyond U.S.

borders. The Congressman from Gold River California is suggesting that there should be a law that requires sex offenders' names to go into an international database. He acknowledges that his district, which includes Sacramento, is "one of the top sources of child prostitution and trafficking" in America. The ACLU is against Lundgren's idea because it would be imposing "new restrictions on people who have already served their sentences." Retrieved from the Fresno Bee, Feb. 14, 2010. http://www.fresnobee.com.

Lacey, Marc, and Urbina, Ian. (2010, Feb. 14). Haiti group's "lawyer" linked to child sex ring. The news has been well reported that a group of 10 Americans were arrested trying to smuggle about 33 Haitian children across the border into the Dominican Republic. But now the story gets more bizarre. The so-called lawyer that the group contracted with is not a lawyer at all -- he is a key witness in a child prostitution ring, authorities say. His name is Jorge Puello and allegedly his wife in Salvador had been convicted in a child prostitution ring there, and he had been wanted by Salvadoran police but fled the country. Interpol has issues a wanted person alert for Puello. Retrieved Feb. 14, 2010, from http://www.theage.com.au/action/printarticle?id=1118951.

Logan, Marty. (2005, Nov. 17). Slavery with a capital S. The root cause of forcing Nepali

girls into being sex slaves is "lust for money" according to this article. The owners of have to pay of course to secure the services of these girls from traffickers. but, the article continues, the brothel owners can "recoup the 'purchase price' in up to seven months."