New Mexico: The court found the first conviction of human trafficking under the state's human trafficking law. The convicted man is sentenced to three years in jail. The attorney general says that he held a 18 year old girl against her will and forced her into prostitution.
Georgia: A bill to crack down on human trafficking was passed a State house committee. Most of the bill deals with child prostitution. Also, the bill presents the issue of whether a victim's history of prostitution could be used by john or pimp as a defense in court.
Hawaii: One of the eight people who were charged with trafficking more than 600 Thai workers has pleaded guilty to conspiracy. He admitted to labor exploit Thai workers from 2001 and held them as indentured servants in at least seven states including Hawaii.
Virginia: A Filipina teacher who is allegedly a victim of human trafficking, walk free after a group of Filipino bailed her out from immigration detention center in Virginia. She came to the U.S. on H1B visa and taught at a school in New Mexico. However, she was dismissed from the school in a month without any reason. According to the report, the recruitment agency allegedly brought her to the U.S. without any job awaiting for her.
LATIN AMERICA
Haiti: The dominican authorities said that 44 Haitian children, including 2 years old and 30 adults were rescued from the traffickers this week. According to the report, they were forced into begging and cleaning the windshields of the cars standing in major intersections. Also, the babies were rented for $8 a day for begging.
ASIA
Thailand: Police arrested a 35 year old woman for pimping on her niece. She allegedly brought her 16 year old niece to Pattaya city to prostitute to foreign customers. The arrest was made after the man contacted the police about the woman telling him that he could have sex with her niece for Bt, 1500.
Vietnam: 14 Vietnamese women have been rescued from an illegal surrogate baby breeding in Thailand. Police said that the company received the call or email from childless couples or men who want to provide sperms to inseminate the women. Nine women said that they volunteered to work to earn $5000 per baby, but four of them said that they were lured into the business.
Japan: The number of child pornography victim surged by a half last year, according to a data. The National Police Agency said that police charged 1,342 child pornography cases last year, which was a 43.5 percent increase from the previous year.
AFRICA
Ghana: The anti-human trafficking unit saved a 12 year old victim from being trafficked to Cote
d' Ivoire as a domestic servant. The authority found her loitering at the border, and when questioned, the girl said that a woman was sending her to Cote d' Ivoire.
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