Missouri: House offered a unanimous vote to a bill to strengthen anti-human trafficking measure. Under the new bill, trafficker will face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of as much as $250,000. Victims of trafficking or forced labor will also be able to seek restitution.
Colorado: Colorado Human Trafficking Task force is taking action against the crime in Colorado Spring. The Task Force representative said that they want to raise awareness and money to train local law enforcement to crack down human trafficking. Currently, lawmakers are trying to attack the prostitution problems with tougher penalties against johns by raising the fine to $5000.
Kentucky: The U.S. attorney announced that a nation wide human trafficking investigation resulted nine indictment on various levels of prostitution charges. According to the court records, the defendants operated brothels using women from Hispanic countries in Tennessee and Kentucky. The women were forced to work Monday through Saturday and traveled between the cities on Sundays. The women were also required to see 30 clients a day and work 50 weeks a year.
Hawaii: Nonprofit groups say that Asia Pacific Economic Conference may lead increase in prostitution in Honolulu. Some of the attendees are from countries that the law against prostitution is not enforced. Honolulu local law enforcement says that they are planning on devote more resources in Waikiki during this event, but that step-up measure is normal for such a big event.
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Spain: Police arrested a German man for filming himself sexually abusing his and other children in the age between three and nine. He also distributed the video on the internet pedophile forum, in which he offered the children to other adults for sex with and make similar videos.
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The Philippines: Two Swedish men were jailed for running a cyber sex den according to the court. On their internet sex site, women would perform for clients. They both received unprecedented life term sentences. Also, three Filipinos who assisted these Swedish men were convicted of human trafficking charges and sentenced to 20 years in prison.
China: The state family planning officials in Hunan providence have reportedly involved in child trafficking ring for a decade. For the past ten years, the government officials seized at least 20 children from their families and sold each child for $150 to a local welfare center. State officials took away children from families who breached one child policy law or illegally adopted a child.
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