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Houston's illegal massage parlors just reopen with new names

Posted by Julie Waters on Monday, November 1, 2010, In : Houston sex trafficking

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7272500.html

A blot Houston can't erase

Despite constant raids, illegal massage parlors just reopen with new names

By YANG WANG
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Nov. 1, 2010, 8:02AM

It has been called VIP Spa, King Spa, Montage Massage & Day Spa and now, Du Soleil — although it has no sign marking it as a massage parlor, just some curtain-covered windows in a storefront strip mall and a red and blue light declaring it "OPEN."

On 14 visits to this ...

Human Trafficking Initatives of Kingsland Baptist and Free the Captives

Posted by Free the Captives on Tuesday, September 7, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

Church plans run to end human trafficking

Kimberly Pina wrote on Sept. 6, 2010:

Erin Lowry couldn’t believe what girls her age in Southeast Asia had gone through. Girls as young as 13 and 14 had been taken from their families and sold into the hands of unknown adults who forced them into sexual or manual servitude.

“It was hard for me to see these girls so close to my age that had lived lives of normalcy,” said Lowry, 18, who traveled to Asia in July with other teenagers f...

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, ...

Houston Chron article: World Cup and Free the Captives

Posted by FTC on Wednesday, June 9, 2010, In : International Trafficking

June 08, 2010

World Cup sex trafficking concerns churches

http://blogs.chron.com/believeitornot/2010/06/world_cup_sex_trafficking_conc.html

News reports and public service announcements on South African TV estimate up to 100,000 people may fall victim to sex trafficking during the FIFA World Cup, which begins on Friday. Concerned churches from across the globe are sending missionaries to the games to minister to sex workers and work alongside social services to help them.

There's always ...

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