Sexual slavery & Human Trafficking

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Mexican cartels engage in sex slavery...

Woman 'raped 43,200' times speaks out about Mexico's human trafficking rings
Nov 12, 2015 - A woman who became coerced into Mexico's lucrative human trafficking industry has spoken out about her torment at the hands of the country's ruthless organized crime rings.

Karla Jacinto believes she has been raped around 43,200 times after being forced to sleep with at least 30 men every day for 4 years, CNN reports. At 12, she recalls being targeted by a trafficker who lured her away from a dysfunctional home life with gifts, money and fast cars. The 22-year-old trafficker convinced Jacinto to leave with him to Tenancingo, a Mexican town in the state of Tlaxcala, known as a major centre for human trafficking rings and a common place for victims to be taken before being forced into prostitution.

Jacinto told CNN she lived with her trafficker for three months before being taken to Guadalajara, one of Mexico's largest cities, where she was forced to work as a prostitute. "I started at 10am and finished at midnight," said Jacinto, "Some men would laugh at me because I was crying." "I had to close my eyes so that that I wouldn't see what they were doing to me, so that I wouldn't feel anything."

During her ordeal Jacinto was attacked by her trafficker after he saw kiss marks on her neck from a customer. "He started beating me with a chain in all of my body," said Jacinto. "He punched me with his fists, he kicked me, pulled my hair, spit at me in the face... he also burned me with the iron." She also claims a police operation to rescue her and a group of girls being held at a hotel descended into horror when the officers began filming the girls, some as young as 10, in compromising positions. There are an estimated 20,000 trafficking victims in Mexico every year, according to the International Organisation for Migration.

In the US, five of the 10 "most wanted" sex traffickers are from Tenancingo, which has a population of just 11,000. According to a 2010 University of Tlaxcala study, one in five children in the town aspires to be a pimp, while two-thirds know at least one relative or friend working as a pimp or trafficker, The Guardian reports. Jacinto was rescued in 2006 during an anti-trafficking operation in Mexico City. Now aged 23, she is an advocate against human trafficking. CNN have verified parts of Ms Jacinto's story with the United Against Human Trafficking Group and senior officials at Road to Home, a shelter Ms Jacinto lived in after being rescued. Her testimony has been used as evidence to support HR 515, or Megan's Law, which requires US authorities to make information available to the public regarding registered sex offenders.

Woman 'raped 43,200' times speaks out about Mexico's human trafficking rings - Times of India

 

[Asclepias]

Thats pretty interesting if you detach yourself from the suffering this woman has gone through. Are the guys that had sex with her guilty of rape since they thought she was a prostutue?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Thats pretty interesting if you detach yourself from the suffering this woman has gone through. Are the guys that had sex with her guilty of rape since they thought she was a prostutue?

Dunno Mexico's sex laws but I kinda doubt it.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

I read this story a few days ago and all I could think is that this is what the US sent all those South American refugee children back to.

Americans don't care about the sex trafficking of children. In fact, many blame the children for their own fate.

 

[Disir]

Yes. Where is the outrage? I remember when the following was first discussed in the US and then it magically disappeared from the public's view because everyone knows that it doesn't happen here.

https://www.cia.gov/library/center-...ications/books-and-monographs/trafficking.pdf

 

[Luddly Neddite]

There is no doubt that Americans don't care about the welfare of children of other countries but there is sex trafficking in the US. But its mostly children so RWs don't care.

 

[Disir]

Sure they do. They just don't want to alter international relations enough to stop a bunch of hideous crap that goes on there. Frankly, I'm not finding too many Democrats willing to do the same.

The MS13's Prostitution Rings in the United States

Taiwan's "Sunflower Queen" Johanne Liu probed in prostitution ring case

 

[Asclepias]

There is no doubt that Americans don't care about the welfare of children of other countries but there is sex trafficking in the US. But its mostly children so RWs don't care.

They dont care about the welfare of children in this country either.

 

[anotherlife]

This is bull HEHEHE. She decided to go whoring and ate dicks as whores do by official job description. Where is the rape here? And even if she didn't like it, it is not unnatural to play with dicks if you are a woman. Or did a punk cut her throat? Well no, because then that would be the story. So let's admit, this is just the usual liberal rape fantasy that is popular these days.

 

[Blackrook]

I read this story a few days ago and all I could think is that this is what the US sent all those South American refugee children back to.

Americans don't care about the sex trafficking of children. In fact, many blame the children for their own fate.

You make liberals look bad when you spew out your garbage.

 

[anotherlife]

I read this story a few days ago and all I could think is that this is what the US sent all those South American refugee children back to.

Americans don't care about the sex trafficking of children. In fact, many blame the children for their own fate.

Don't worry, there is a DSMV-V diagnosis as well as medication for this. Also, consider how empowered those children will feel, that after being deported back home, they are now useful, earning money for their employers, even without a shop floor. Can the US foster care even remotely compete with this, considering how much laziness and criminal attitude it teaches US children already?

 

[Michelle420]

Sure they do. They just don't want to alter international relations enough to stop a bunch of hideous crap that goes on there. Frankly, I'm not finding too many Democrats willing to do the same.

The MS13's Prostitution Rings in the United States

Taiwan's "Sunflower Queen" Johanne Liu probed in prostitution ring case

The congo too

Why Congo is the world's most dangerous place for women | Judith Wanga

 

[Michelle420]

 

[waltky]

Gay sex slave ring busted...

Trial reveals issues tackling gay slave ring
Thu, Dec 31, 2015 - PEOPLE TRAFFICKING: Hungarian national Andras Vass was convicted by a Florida court, but one man lured to the US said that his ‘soul is still held in captivity by them’

Three young Hungarian men have helped dismantle a US homosexual prostitution ring that enslaved them, marking a victory for local prosecutors, but highlighting the difficulty in reaching and helping men caught up in trafficking, campaigners said. The men’s accounts of being raped, locked up in windowless rooms and their lives threatened led to the conviction this month of Andras Janos Vass, 26, for helping to operate a male prostitution ring of Hungarians in New York City and Miami. Sentenced to 11 years in prison, Vass, a Hungarian national, was the first person convicted in Florida for trafficking men under the state’s human trafficking law that took effect in 2012, authorities said.

The men told the court that they were lured to the US in 2012 with the promise of well-paid escort jobs, but found themselves held as sex slaves and abused daily. “When somebody asks me about what did I do in the United States, I freeze as I relive again all those bad things,” one of the men said through a translator at the Miami-Dade Circuit Court trial. “My soul is still held in captivity by them,” he said. Another man described being haunted after spending 17 months in captivity, saying that he was raped, starved and deprived of sleep. “When I see something with red or purple color, it reminds me those red and purple-colored rooms where I was locked in,” he told the court in a written statement. “I’m afraid that one day I’ll be woken up in this windowless room and everything starts over again,” he said.

The case marked a victory for the human trafficking task force of the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, which teaches prosecutors and law enforcement personnel to look out for signs of trafficking, founder Jane Anderson said. Red flags might include girls arrested for shoplifting sexual lubricants or family disputes in which teens will not disclose to their parents how they got expensive gifts. “Now when a woman comes with a black eye and her occupation is listed as a dancer, we don’t just assume that the guy who did this is her boyfriend,” said Anderson, now an attorney adviser to AEquitas, a Washington-based group that provides resources for prosecutors in sexual violence and trafficking cases. The prosecutors might also add charges of racketeering to enhance penalties for traffickers, she said.

Vass and two other Hungarian nationals were accused of racketeering, human trafficking and profiting from prostitution for luring Hungarian men to the US through a Web site. The two other men are due to go on trial next year. Their attorneys were not available for comment. The men they allegedly lured from Hungary said they would be in well-paid, legal jobs in the US as escorts, prosecutors said, and could go home after a few months. However, when they arrived in 2012, they were kept as slaves in New York and later in Florida, forced into prostitution and to perform on Web cams, prosecutors said. The captors allegedly threatened to kill them or hurt their families in Hungary, prosecutors said.

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Colombia child sex trafficking ring cracked...

Police crackdown on Bogota crack den exposes children used as sex slaves
Thursday 2nd June, 2016 - When around 2,500 heavily armed police and soldiers recently raided a warren of crack dens in a notorious Bogota neighbourhood to tackle drug trafficking, they also found two hundred children being used as sex slaves.

The surprise dawn raid in the Bronx neighbourhood exposed child sex trafficking taking place just a few blocks from the presidential palace, police authorities said. "From one dwelling with inhumane conditions we rescued around 200 children who were being sexually exploited," Julian Quintana, head of the attorney general's police investigative unit told reporters after the massive operation on May 28. Of that figure, 136 children and are now being looked after by the state child welfare agency (IBCF), including 18 boys and girls under 12 years old, the authorities said. The small Bronx neighbourhood in downtown Bogota has long been known for its rubbish-strewn narrow streets filled with the stench of human excrement and lined with crack houses used by homeless drug addicts and squatters, mingling with arms dealers.

During the operation, police seized stashes of weapons, a drug processing laboratory, piles of cash, explosives and also arrested three gang leaders. "We are not going to continue tolerating an independent republic of crime, where children are exploited," Enrique Penalosa, Bogota's mayor who spearheaded the operation, told reporters after the raid. Claudia Quintero, head of the Anne Frank Corporation, a Colombian non-governmental organisation that fights human trafficking, said she has seen children as young as 10 working as prostitutes in the Bronx's brothels and bars. "We have heard testimonies from children that they are forced to take drugs and are then exploited sexually," Quintero told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Tuesday. "Several parents had to pay an extortion fee to the gangs to get their girls out of the brothels."

In the past two years, the NGO has rescued 15 girls and boys who had been forced into prostitution from three brothels in the Bronx after parents reported their children missing. One teenage girl committed suicide after being rescued in 2015, she said. Most of the child victims of sex trafficking come from poor families living in slum areas surrounding Bogota, some of whom had been displaced by Colombia's armed conflict, Quintero said. "They are lured, coerced and some are transported to other brothels in other neighbourhoods of the city. They are also forced to pack and sell drugs," she said. The police estimate that criminal gangs make about US$1.5 million a month, selling arms and controlling drug and human trafficking rackets in the Bronx neighbourhood alone. Authorities have tried to provide drug rehabilitation services and to dismantle drug gangs operating in the Bronx in the past, most recently three years ago, but without long-lasting effect and with mixed results.

Bogota's current mayor has pledged to clean up the troubled neighbourhood once and for all and to provide better lighting and security cameras. Tonnes of rubbish and demolished crack houses are still being cleared from the area. Nearly 1,600 people, many of them crack addicts, were removed during the raid and have been offered treatment, shelter and food, the mayor said. "There's not a strategic intervention plan to stop this from happening again," Quintero said. "Colombia isn't prepared to deal with the victims of human trafficking." According to the 2015 U.S. State Department report on human trafficking, there was just one prosecutor in Bogota overseeing all cases of internal trafficking in the capital city.

Police crackdown on Bogota crack den exposes children used as sex slaves

 

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Taliban are using child sex slaves to launch deadly insider attacks...

Kabul to Investigate Child Sex Slavery Fueling Insider Attacks
Jun 28, 2016 - Afghanistan's president has ordered a "thorough investigation" into institutionalized sexual abuse of children by police, after AFP revealed the Taliban are using child sex slaves to launch deadly insider attacks.

There has been international condemnation of paedophilic "bacha bazi" -- literally "boy play" -- which AFP found has been exploited by the Taliban to mount a series of Trojan Horse attacks over two years that have killed hundreds of policemen in the remote southern province of Uruzgan. "The president has ordered a thorough investigation (in Uruzgan) and immediate action based on findings of the investigation," the presidential palace said of Ashraf Ghani in a statement. "Anyone, regardless of rank within the forces, found guilty will be prosecuted and punished in accordance and in full compliance of the Afghan laws and our international obligations," the English language statement said.

The Taliban have been using child sex slaves to mount crippling insider attacks on police​

The ancient custom of bacha bazi, one of the country's worst human rights violations, sees young boys -- sometimes dressed as women -- recruited to police outposts for sexual companionship and to bear arms. It is deeply entrenched in Uruzgan, where police commanders, judges, government officials and survivors of such attacks told AFP that the Taliban are recruiting bacha bazi victims to attack their abusers. The claims -- strongly denied by the Taliban -- expose child abuse by both parties in Afghanistan's worsening conflict. The presidential statement said there was "no place" in the Afghan establishment for abusers, adding it will do "whatever it takes" to punish them.

'Horrific'

The announcement follows a flurry of international reaction to AFP's report. "We strongly condemn any abuses of the horrific nature described in the article," the US embassy in Kabul said. "We urge the Afghan government... to protect and support victims and their families, while also strongly encouraging justice and accountability under Afghan law for offenders." In a letter last week to US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, Congressman Duncan Hunter demanded a proactive American role to end bacha bazi in Afghan forces. "I remain concerned... that the Taliban is increasing its use of children to access security positions and mount insider attacks against... Afghan police," Hunter said in the letter seen by AFP. "It is my belief that we can begin taking immediate steps to stop child rape from occurring in the presence of US forces and reduce any risk of coinciding insider attacks. This includes imposing a zero-tolerance policy."

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said bacha bazi is of "high concern" for the international community. "UNAMA continues to receive anecdotal reports of bachi bazi, including within Afghan security forces, and continues its engagement with government to ensure the criminalization and prevention of all forms of exploitation and abuse of children," Mark Bowden, the UN deputy special representative for Afghanistan, told AFP. The Afghan government announcement, which did not specify a timeframe for the investigation, comes ahead of two crucial donor conferences on Afghanistan in Warsaw and Brussels this year. The war-battered country remains heavily dependent on international financial and military assistance, which helps sustain security forces -- including police.

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Islamic State Fighters Launch New Attacks in Eastern Afghanistan
Jun 26, 2016 - Heavy fighting between Afghan forces and Islamic State fighters has killed dozens of people, officials said Sunday, raising fears the militant group is staging a comeback months after Kabul said they had been defeated.

The fighting began late on Friday in the Kot area of the Rodat district in eastern Nangarhar province after a contingent of IS fighters attacked police check posts, provincial governor Salim Khan Kunduzi said. The interior ministry in a statement said at least 18 fighters had been killed and more than 40 others wounded so far, though Kunduzi placed the number of IS fighters killed as high as 36 and said at least a dozen security forces personnel and civilians had also died. Scores of people have been forced out of their homes, according to local officials.

An Afghan National Army soldier fires artillery during clashes with suspected IS militants in the Kor area of eastern Nangarhar province​

IS fighters began making inroads into Afghanistan in late 2014, winning over sympathizers, recruiting followers and challenging the Taliban on their own turf, primarily in the country's east. But in March, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani announced that the Islamists had been defeated following a months-long military operation. The US military estimates between 1,000 and 3,000 IS fighters are in Afghanistan, mostly comprised of disaffected Pakistani and Afghan Taliban, as well as Uzbek Islamists and locals.

Earlier this month the U.S. President Barack Obama ordered the US military to tackle the resurgent Taliban more directly -- in tandem with Afghan allies, ratcheting up a 15-year conflict he had vowed to end. On Saturday, the U.S. military carried out its first air strikes against Taliban targets under the newly approved rules, which mean U.S. troops can now work more closely with local fighters in striking the Taliban. Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the strikes occurred in southern Afghanistan, but he did not provide additional details.

Islamic State Fighters Launch New Attacks in Eastern Afghanistan | Military.com

 

[waltky]

Burma to be put on human trafficking list, one of world's worst offenders...

US to put Myanmar on trafficking list
Thu, Jun 30, 2016 - The US has decided to place Myanmar on its global list of worst offenders in human trafficking, officials said, a move aimed at prodding the country’s new democratically elected government and its still-powerful military to do more to curb the use of child soldiers and forced labor.

The reprimand of Myanmar comes despite US efforts to court the strategically important country to help counteract China’s rise in the region and build a Southeast Asian bulwark against Beijing’s territorial assertiveness in the South China Sea. Myanmar’s demotion, part of the US Department of State’s closely watched annual Trafficking in Persons report due to be released today, also appears intended to send a message of US concern about continued widespread persecution of the Rohingya Muslim minority in the Buddhist-majority nation. Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been criticized internationally for neglecting the Rohingya issue since her administration took office this year.

Washington has faced a complex balancing act over Myanmar, a former military dictatorship that has emerged from decades of international isolation since launching sweeping political changes in 2011. US President Barack Obama’s diplomatic opening to Myanmar is widely seen as a key foreign policy achievement as he enters his final seven months in office, but even as he has eased some sanctions, he has kept others in place to maintain leverage for further reforms.

At the same time, Washington wants to keep Myanmar from slipping back into China’s orbit at a time when US officials are trying to forge a unified regional front. The US decision to drop Myanmar to “Tier 3,” the lowest grade, putting it alongside countries like Iran, North Korea and Syria, was confirmed by a US official in Washington and a Bangkok-based official from an international organization informed of the move.

US to put Myanmar on trafficking list - Taipei Times

 

[anotherlife]

Soon the only profitable work will be selling your dick/funny. Then you will beg that someone buys you to be his sex slave.

 

[waltky]

ISIS selling girls as young as 12 years old on the Telegram app...

Islamic State tightens grip on captives held as sex slaves
Jul 5,`16 -- The advertisement on the Telegram app is as chilling as it is incongruous: A girl for sale is "Virgin. Beautiful. 12 years old.... Her price has reached $12,500 and she will be sold soon."

The posting in Arabic appeared on an encrypted conversation along with ads for kittens, weapons and tactical gear. It was shared with The Associated Press by an activist with the minority Yazidi community, whose women and children are being held as sex slaves by the extremists. While the Islamic State group is losing territory in its self-styled caliphate, it is tightening its grip on the estimated 3,000 women and girls held as sex slaves. In a fusion of ancient barbaric practices and modern technology, IS sells the women like chattel on smart phone apps and shares databases that contain their photographs and the names of their "owners" to prevent their escape through IS checkpoints. The fighters are assassinating smugglers who rescue the captives, just as funds to buy the women out of slavery are drying up.

The thousands of Yazidi women and children were taken prisoner in August 2014, when IS fighters overran their villages in northern Iraq with the aim to eliminate the Kurdish-speaking minority because of its ancient faith. Since then, Arab and Kurdish smugglers managed to free an average of 134 people a month. But by May, an IS crackdown reduced those numbers to just 39 in the last six weeks, according to figures provided by the Kurdistan regional government. Mirza Danai, founder of the German-Iraqi aid organization Luftbrucke Irak, said in the last two or three months, escape has become more difficult and dangerous. "They register every slave, every person under their owner, and therefore if she escapes, every Daesh control or checkpoint, or security force - they know that this girl ... has escaped from this owner," he said, using the Arabic acronym for the group.

Lamiya Aji Bashar, an 18-year-old Yazidi girl who escaped her Islamic State group enslavers, talks to The Associated Press in northern Iraq in this May 5, 2016 photo. She described how she was abducted along with her sisters and brothers when IS overran her village in 2014 and was passed around from militant to militant, trying to escape many times. Finally she succeeded in March, but only after a mine exploded, killing two girls fleeing with her and leaving Bashar's face scarred and blinding her in one eye.​

U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby told the AP that the U.S. continues "to be appalled by credible reports that Daesh is trafficking in human beings, and sex slavery in particular." "This depravity not only speaks to the degree to which Daesh cheapens life and repudiates the Islamic faith, it also strengthens our resolve to defeat them," he said. The AP has obtained a batch of 48 head shots of the captives, smuggled out of the IS-controlled region by an escapee, which people familiar with them say are similar to those in the extremists' slave database and the smartphone apps.

Lamiya Aji Bashar tried to flee four times before finally escaping in March, racing to government-controlled territory with Islamic State group fighters in pursuit. A land mine exploded, killing her companions, 8-year-old Almas and Katherine, 20. She never learned their last names. The explosion left Lamiya blind in her right eye, her face scarred by melted skin. Saved by the man who smuggled her out, she counts herself among the lucky. "I managed in the end, thanks to God, I managed to get away from those infidels," the 18-year-told the AP from a bed at her uncle's home in the northern Iraqi town of Baadre. "Even if I had lost both eyes, it would have been worth it, because I have survived them."

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[Yarddog]

I read this story a few days ago and all I could think is that this is what the US sent all those South American refugee children back to.

Americans don't care about the sex trafficking of children. In fact, many blame the children for their own fate.

were they orphans or did they go back to their parents?