New York: The Supreme Court refuses to hear the appeal to overturn a conviction of a couple enslaving two Indonesian girls. The wife is now facing a sentence to 11 years in jail, and her husband is facing 3 years in jail for forced labor case in 2007. The wife argued that "pre-trial publicity prevented her from getting a fair trial, while her husband argues that he shouldn’t have been convicted for aiding and abetting because he didn’t stop his wife."
Texas: The Coastal Bend Addressing Human Trafficking Coalition, a new group to fight human trafficking, held an inauguration meeting yesterday. This was the first group of people gathering together to combat human trafficking in southern Texas. According to the report, there had been a handful of human trafficking cases in Coastal Bend, including a 14 year old found working at a local strip club.
Hawaii: Justice department announced yesterday that two more people were charged with human trafficking case in Hawaii. Grand Jury returned the indictment that two men were co-conspirator to trafficking 400 Thai nationals in Hawaiian farm for labor exploitation. According to the indictment, Thai workers were forced to work as indentured servants after defendants incurred insurmountable debts with high recruitment fees. They were also worked for little or no pay.
EUROPE
Ireland: Police in Northern Ireland says that human trafficking is on the rise in the region. Police also stated that fifteen people were rescued between April and December last year, and 4 people were charged with links to the case.
UK: Human trafficking ring in Munchester exposed. Two victims were from poverty stricken region in Romania and forced into prostitution by a father and his 23 year old son. The women were starved and live under violence to perform commercial sex for their traffickers. Even after being remanded, the father and the son tried to silence the victims with threat.
ASIA
India: Police rescued two teenage girls trafficked to countries in Gulf region. According to the report, victims stated that they were lured and forcibly taken into brothels, where 20 other Indian girls were working as prostitutes. The two girls, in the age between 14 and 17, had been missing since 2007 and 2008.
Cambodia: Three Cambodians jump into river to escape from a fishing boat, where they were forced to work and held against their will. According to the report, one of them reported to the police, which led the rescue of six people, but two people are still missing.
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