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The FBI report states that over 10,000 victims of human trafficking were reported to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report program in the past decade, with the most common age range of victims being 13 ...
Human trafficking is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or ...
The FBI found 200 sex trafficking victims and more than 125 suspects during a two-week child exploitation operation in July, federal officials said Tuesday. ... The FBI teamed with state and local ...
The FBI said it also identified and located 200 victims, 59 of which are reportedly minors. ... Human trafficking has long been a problem in all corners of the world, and appears to be a growing ...
Operation Stormy Nights was an early major anti-human-trafficking operation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). [1] Operations took place in Oklahoma and brought to light organized crime networks trafficking female minors along United States Numbered Highways, where the girls were forced into prostitution to service truck drivers.
The 114th Congress quickly and vigorously took up the issue of human trafficking, generating twelve bills in the first couple weeks of the new session. [2] The JVTA incorporates provisions from ten of those twelve bills: H.R. 159 (Stop Exploitation of Trafficking Act of 2015), [3] H.R. 181 (Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015), [4] H.R. 246 (To improve the response to victims of ...
An FBI agent took the witness stand at the federal detention hearing of Tal Alexander — one of three wealthy Miami Beach brothers charged with sex-trafficking — and testified that since June ...
Richmond’s work to combat human trafficking caused the former head of the FBI’s national human trafficking program to call Richmond, “every trafficker’s worst nightmare.” [41] [42] [43] Richmond has also earned numerous honors, including: receiving the “Federal Prosecutors of the Year” by the Federal Law Enforcement Foundation ...