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Do wealthy Johns( buyers of sex) get away with prostitution charges in the U.S.?

Posted by Free the Captives on Friday, July 30, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

July 30, 11:30 AM · Youngbee Dale - Human Rights Examiner

In the United States, justice and liberty are relatively better protected than they are in many other countries around the world. Regardless of race, sex, social, or economic status, everyone in this country has the rights to be protected by the Constitution. However, a few recent prostitution cases suggest that this principle does not always prevails...

American Sex Tourist Pleads Guilty, wanted 12 years old Cambodian girls

Posted by Free the Captives on Thursday, July 29, 2010, In : International Trafficking

http://www.ice.gov/pi/nr/1007/100727seattle.htm

July 27, 2010

SEATTLE - A south King County, Wash., man who traveled to Cambodia to have sex with young girls pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges of sexual exploitation of a child, following an investigation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) Office of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI).

Craig Thomas Carr, 59, of Kent, Wash., admitted in his plea agreement that prior to his trip to Phnom Penh, Cambo...

Schoolgirls Controlled by Loverboys: Math Class in the Morning, Turning Tricks at Lunchtime

Posted by Free the Captives on Tuesday, July 27, 2010, In : International Trafficking

07/09/2010 03:39 PM

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,705104,00.html

By Dialika Krahe

They are still children, only 12 or 13 years old. They fall in love for the first time, at the school gates or on Facebook, and wind up with a pimp. Parents and police are struggling against the hold so-called loverboys have over young girls, but often it's already too late.

It had happened again the previous evening. One of her johns came into her booth behind the glass window, ...

On the trail of human trafficking

Posted by Julie Waters on Friday, July 23, 2010, In : International Trafficking

by Siddharth Kara

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/19/kara.human.traffic.india/?hpt=C2#fbid=bcEa2XdGB5k

July 22, 2010 -- Updated 2035 GMT (0435 HKT)

Editors Note: Harvard human trafficking fellow Siddharth Kara is undertaking a research trip around South Asia, looking at issues of forced labor, trafficking and child bondage. He will be getting access to the heart of the problem, and telling CNN.com readers what he has discovered every week over the next ten weeks. This is his ...

Seduction, Slavery and Sex by Nicholas Kristof

Posted by Free the Captives on Thursday, July 15, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/opinion/15kristof.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

Published: July 14, 2010

Against all odds, this year’s publishing sensation is a trio of thrillers by a dead Swede relating tangentially to human trafficking and sexual abuse.

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Nicholas D. Kristof

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Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels.

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Swiss frees child rapist, Roman Polanski; no extradition to the US

Posted by Free the Captives on Monday, July 12, 2010,

Roman Polanski is a free man -- with some key conditions

July 12, 2010 | 11:33 am

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/07/roman-polanski-is-a-free-man-with-some-key-conditions.html

The decision by Swiss authorities not to extradite Roman Polanski to the United States to face sentencing for having sex with a teenage girl three decades ago leaves the famed director a free man -- with some conditions.

Although the decision marked a defeat for the Los Angeles County District Attorney�...

Boycott Craigslist - They Make Profits from Sex Trafficking of Minors

Posted by Free the Captives on Thursday, July 8, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

Craigslist is projected to realize a 22% increase in revenue – an estimated $36 million in 2010 – largely attributable to its functioning as a virtual red light district for pimps/traffickers and johns.

http://blog.globalsister.org/?p=1749

The Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) in partnership with Prostitution Research and Education (PRE) and other co-sponsors will be holding a protest in front of Craigslist Headquarters in San Francisco on July 8th to bring attention to Cr...

New Bill to Fight Child Sex Trafficking in U.S.

Posted by Free the Captives on Wednesday, July 7, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/new_bill_to_fight_child_sex_trafficking_in_us

by Amanda Kloer June 29, 2010

This week, a new bill was introduced to Congress to help combat the trafficking of American children for sex in the United States. If passed, it would mean more resources for victims, more cash to prosecute people who sell kids, and stricter reporting requirements for missing children. To the tune of 45 million bucks. And the new legislation might also fill in so...
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