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A man accused of human trafficking under the guise of a consensual sadomasochistic relationship will get a new trial because of the ex post facto clause to the U.S. Constitution.
Glenn Marcus was convicted in the Eastern District of New York of sex trafficking and forced labor under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act for forcing a woman into beatings, sex acts and working on his bondage Web site. Read more... |
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S. met a pimp and entered prostitution when she was 15 years old and living in a group home, she said. Now 21, she is a development assistant and outreach worker at Girls Education and Mentoring Service, a Harlem center for girls who have been commercially sexually exploited. Listen to her story. |
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For almost a year, 20-year-old Katya, a university student from Ukraine was forced to work strip clubs in Detroit by two men she thought were taking her to a waitressing job in America.
Alex Maksimenko’s and Michail Aronov imprisoned her and 15 other women in separate apartments around Detroit.
Katya: "We couldn't kept any money in our apartment because the guys has keys. They have, I believe, there was listen us in the apartment. And we could not hide nothing. They're say, if they find at least a dollar, it will be something bad happen to us."
The 12 hour shifts yielded up to $1000 a night but the women saw none of it. |
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--Defendant, who advertised on “craigslist,” forced a 16-year-old girl into prostitution--
Washington, D.C. – Levar Simms, a 30-year-old resident of Washington, D.C., was sentenced to 96 months of incarceration today by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon following the defendant’s conviction by a federal jury, on January 28, 2008, of interstate transportation of a minor for the purpose of prostitution, announced U.S. Attorney Jeffrey A. Taylor, Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy L. Lanier, and Joseph Persichini, Jr., Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI’s Washington Field Office. |
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