TENANCINGO, Mexico – In this impoverished town in central Mexico, a sinister trade has taken root: entire extended families exploit desperation and lure hundreds of unsuspecting young Mexican women to ...
, the local underground sex economy can rake in upward of a year. But the business leaders running these lucrative local industries are often obscured from view, publicly represented only by crude ...
A Manhattan judge acquitted father-and-son pimps of sex trafficking but nailed them on lesser prostitution charges today, leaving both sides claiming victory in the “happy hooker” case. Vincent George ...
BALTIMORE (WJZ) -- Shutting down child sex trafficking. In just three days, the FBI rescued more than 100 children forced into prostitution and arrested 150 accused pimps--including three operating ...
WASHINGTON -- Nearly 170 victims of child sex trafficking, many of whom had never been reported missing, were rescued in the last week as part of an annual nationwide crackdown, the FBI said Monday.
Peabody Award-winning Portuguese journalist Mariana van Zeller spends her new eight-part National Geographic documentary series, Trafficked, infiltrating gangs of fentanyl peddlers, gunrunners, and ...
The 15-year-old girl, a chronic runaway from an Oakland group home, could not escape the clutches of her alleged pimp in Hayward. In response to his demands, the young prostitute insisted in text ...
Two articles today discuss new methods of recruiting and prostituting teen girls. Two teen girls are accused of prostituting girls from their high school, and, in other news, “professional” pimps are ...
Switch between CA and NY editions here. Naive Swedes are unwittingly renting out their homes to pimps and hookers, who have ditched hotels in favor of Airbnb, police said. It’s estimated that some 200 ...