Rhode Island: A UAE military officer attending Naval War college in Rhode Island was indicted on a human trafficking charge. According to the report, he failed to compensate a Filipino woman after persuading her to come to Rhode Island with his family to care for his children and clean his house. He also allegedly forced her to work seven days a week until midnight.
Minnesota: A trucker was sentenced in federal court for taking a 14 year old child on interstate trucking trip for the purpose of having sexual relation with her and producing pornography involving her. He was sentenced to 480 months in prison and lifetime supervision upon release.
LATIN AMERICA
Dominican Republic: Authorities said that they busted a Haitian human trafficking ring that allegedly exploited dozens of Haitians. The authorities also found seventy-seven Haitians, including 44 children at a building that was formerly used as a daycare. Ten of the children were under the age of one. They were forced to go out on the busy intersection every morning to beg and clean the windshields. The authority also arrested the ring leader who was also a illegal migrant from Haiti.
Mexico: A Federal Appellate Court in Mexico convicted a Canadian man of running a child pornography business at his residence. He was sentenced to eight years in jail. He was arrested in 2009 after the authority found fifteen hard drive containing four million copies of child pornography.
EUROPE
UK: A restaurant owner from Dublin was refused bail in sex trade probe. Prosecutors argue that the man was a member of organized criminal gang who ran a vice involving Hungarian nationals. The investigation began after the police in London received a tip from Hungarian embassy regarding a woman who came to UK to work at a restaurant but forced into prostitution. Though the restaurant owner appeared at the police station, it was after he cleaned out his apartment to remove the evidence. But, police later found a number of evidences of sex trafficking in his car.
ASIA
The Philippines: The U.S. State Department says that the Filipino government made a significant progress in combating human trafficking for the last six months in 2010. The report highlighted the conviction of nine sex traffickers, DOJ's order to prosecutors to make human trafficking cases a priority.
AFRICA
Nigeria: The police arrested five individuals for trafficking human body parts. Three Beninoise and two Nigerians transferred the human body parts from a grave in Benin Republic. The suspects were allegedly hired by a politician who wanted to perform human sacrifice ritual to win the election this month.
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