Oregon: House unanimously voted to impose tougher penalties on convicted johns who had sex with minors. The new bill will impose a mandatory $10,000 fine on convicted johns. It also stipulates that a john's ignorance of a child's age is no defense for paying for a sex with the minor.
Michigan: Amendments aimed to strengthen the state's trafficking law took effect last week. Experts say that human trafficking occurs more often in Michigan than others. The new measure will impose longer prison terms on convicted traffickers.
Hawaii: The effort to ban sex trafficking in the state may be revived. The state House had set aside the anti-human trafficking bill, which would increase penalties on pimps and johns. While prosecutors argue that change of prostitution law to treat prostituted women as victims will make it difficult to prosecute the women in prostitution, Senate Judiciary Chairman Clayton Hee says that he would bring prosecutors, human rights advocates, and defense attorneys together in compromise.
California: California is one step closer to implement a bill to take children off of sex industry. The new bill, the Abolition of Child Commerce, Exploitation and Sexual Slavery Act of 2011, will impose an additional $25,000 for the Victim Witness Assistance on a convicted sex criminal who exploited children under the age of 16. It'll also apply to johns who commercially sexually exploit children under the age of 16.
LATIN AMERICA
Mexico: UN says Mexican government fails to prosecute human trafficking. According to the report, the UN Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of Their Families says that the government has no significant efforts though it is evident migration business exists.
EUROPE
UK: A British and a Cypriot were remanded for seven and four days each for possession of child pornography. The Cypriot man was convicted of possessing child pornography in 2010 and fined 9000 pounds. The British man is currently under the investigation by the British police in British base in cooperation with Cyprus police.
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