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Human trafficking in California is the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, and forced labor as it occurs in the state of California. Human trafficking, widely recognized as a modern-day form of slavery, includes. "the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt ...
Last year, Assembly Democrats, under different leadership, rejected Senate Bill 14, which would add human trafficking of a minor for sex to the list of “serious felonies” under California’s ...
Senate Bill 14 would classify sex trafficking of minors as a "serious" felony under California's penal code, which triggers the state's "three strikes" law that allows prosecutors to pursue life ...
The California Legislature has approved a bill to crack down on child prostitution and allow prosecutors to charge anyone who purchases sex from a minor 15 or younger with a felony.
In the United States, human trafficking tends to occur around international travel hubs with large immigrant populations, notably in California, Texas, and Georgia. Those trafficked include young children, teenagers, men, and women; victims can be domestic citizens or foreign nationals. Under federal law (18 USC § 1589), it is a crime to make ...
DeliverFund, a nonprofit intelligence organization that leverages cutting-edge technology in the fight against human trafficking in the US. Love146, works to end child trafficking and exploitation through prevention education and survivor care. Prerana, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that works in the red-light districts of Mumbai, India ...
The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. [1] Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983, with ...
Last year, she authored Senate Bill 14, which made those convicted of child sex trafficking — which was already a felony — eligible for more prison time under California’s Three Strikes law.