Clergy call on Village Voice to shut down sex trafficking site – The Religion World – Orlando Sentinel.  Thirty-six prominent clergy took out a full-page New York Times advertisement Tuesday demanding that Village Voice Media discontinue a Web site used for the sex trafficking of girls and boys. The ad featured a letter calling on the Village Voice company to immediately shut down the Adult section of its Web site where this activity is taking place. The clergy also launched a nationwide petitionin partnership with Change.org’s more than one million members. “Village Voice Media...


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PAWTUCKET, R.I.—Two Rhode Island men have been charged with prostituting a 17-year-old runaway in Pawtucket. Police Maj. Arthur Martins says 29-year-old Brandon Frails and 23-year-old Jermal Williams each face three counts of human trafficking. Martins says the men were prostituting the girl, who ran away from a group home and was staying with acquaintances. Martins says the girl was told she could make extra money by selling herself for sex. He added a group home counselor alerted police to the abuse. Martins says a warrant was issued for Frails on Oct. 14. He added Frails was arrested...


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(C) 2011 The Republic.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/5fdfb5cd503b4947b8fa450ec9fe9946/HI--Human-Trafficking-Hawaii/ HONOLULU — The federal government's lead prosecutor in a Hawaii forced labor trial was taken off the case Tuesday amid concerns about her health and her mischaracterization of the law before a grand jury. The departure of lead trial attorney Susan French caused the government to fly two new lawyers from Washington, D.C., to handle the case, which U.S. District Judge Susan Oki Mollway adjourned in the middle of testimony by the government's...


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(C) 2011 All Headline News.  Entire article retrieved from: http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/90045916?U.S.%20files%20human%20trafficking%20charges%20against%20California%20labor%20contractor The U.S. federal government filed Thursday a human trafficking lawsuit against Global Horizons Manpower for the recruitment of over 200 male Thais to work at farms where they were abused. Global Horizon Manpower, based in Beverly Hills, is the same labor contractor that was charged in September 2010 for forced labor and document servitude for bringing another 400 Thais to the U.S. for farm work...


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(C) 2011 The Associated Press.  Entire article retrieved from: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014808457_apwaxgrhumantrafficking.html The Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. —Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed into law bills aimed at strengthening the state's 8-year-old human trafficking law and providing housing for trafficking victims. One of the two measures signed Monday expands the criminal definition of human trafficking to add forced labor, involuntary servitude, commercial sexual abuse of a minor and criminal sex acts, as well as illegal harvesting or sale of human organs. The...


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(C) 2011 The Associated Press. Entire Article Retrieved from: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014409318_apwaxgrchildprostitution.html The Associated Press OLYMPIA, Wash. — The state Senate has unanimously approved two bills aimed at fighting child prostitution. The bills would expand the criminal definition of human trafficking and allow police to record telephone calls involving underage victims when the victims give consent. Senators Jerome Delvin of Richland and Jeanne Kohl-Welles of Seattle are collaborating on the bills to combat the problem in Washington. Kennewick...


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(C) 2011 Burlington Free Press. Entire article retrieved from: http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20110122/NEWS03/101220303/Report-Vermont-needs-human-trafficking-law Vermont should consider joining at least 41 other states and the United States in criminalizing the practice of human trafficking, according to a report released Friday. Limited data suggest the number of cases of trafficking human beings for labor or sex in Vermont is small. But the problem is likely larger because of a lack of awareness about it, said the report from a task force headed by the Vermont Attorney General's...


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(C) 2011 Change.org. Entire article retrieved from: http://humantrafficking.change.org/blog/view/will_massachusetts_finally_make_human_trafficking_a_crime By Amanda Kloer Massachusetts is one of only five states in the country that doesn't have a law criminalizing human trafficking. As a result, pimps who recruit children for prostitution, families who abuse domestic workers, and employers who confiscate workers' passports often get off with a slap on the wrist. But all that might change as Massachusetts is finally considering making human trafficking a crime. The bill, which was introduced...


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Police say two New York men enslaved teenagers as young as 16 in Rhode Island and forced them into prostitution. Police say Andy Fakhoury and Joseph Defeis, both 23 of Yonkers, N.Y., came to Providence because of a loophole that legalized indoor prostitution. Lawmakers closed the loophole last year. According to a police affidavit, Defeis and Fakhoury brought a 16-year-old girl to Rhode Island to work as a prostitute between 2007 and 2009. Police also say Fakhoury raped a 19-year-old and forced her into prostitution from July through mid-October. Fakhoury is being held without...


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Meet Nikki Junker. She is a domestic trafficking survivor and a founder of the organization, More than Purpose, which is based in California. Nikki was trafficked for prostitution when she was 18 years old. And she escaped her trafficker a year later when she recognized the abusive behaviors of the trafficker. Turning her pain to purpose, Nikki now fights for the cause and the victims' rights by raising the awareness among young generation about human trafficking in the U.S. She also says she works 18 hours a day and loves every minute of it. Today, she talks about her organization, human trafficking,...


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