child sex trafficking
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What’s Up With Jeffrey Epstein and Why Should You Care?
On Monday, U.S. attorneys for the Southern District of New York unsealed a 14-page indictment that accused wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein of soliciting girls, some as young as 14, for sex acts in his sprawling Palm Beach, Fla., mansion and his 21,000 square-foot residence that is one of the largest in Manhattan. In a press…
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Mom of Slain Sex Trafficked Teen Cries Out for Justice—and Gets It; Judge Slaps Pimp With 32 Years in Prison
The pimp who tricked out a 16-year-old girl before she was strangled, her throat slashed and her body discarded in a garage, allegedly by a man he set her up with, was sentenced Tuesday to 32 years in prison. The mother of 16-year-old Desiree Robinson, Yvonne Ambrose, testified before Joseph Hazley’s sentencing, compared Hazley to…
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Michael Jackson’s Family Condemns Leaving Neverland Doc, Says There’s a ‘Public Lynching’ by Media and ‘Vulture Tweeters’
Leaving Neverland, the four-hour documentary chronicling the sexual abuse claims of Wade Robson and James Safechuck at the hands of Michael Jackson has rippled through the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, leaving a bitter chill as cold as the ice caps on Utah’s mountains. Several patrons reportedly walked out in the middle of the screening, and…
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‘Operation Broken Heart’: 2,300 Suspected Child-Sex Offenders Nabbed in Nationwide Operation
The Justice Department announced Tuesday that it has arrested more than 2,300 suspected online child-sex offenders during a nationwide operation that lasted three months. The sweep, called “Operation Broken Heart,” was conducted by the Internet Crimes Against Children task forces and homed in on online sex offenders specifically. According to the Justice Department, the alleged…
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Is the Trump Administration Running a Child-Trafficking Ring or Nah? Follow Me Down the Rabbit Hole
Donald Trump has been the conspiracy whisperer throughout his entire public life. Even before he was president, he was convinced that the Central Park Five were guilty (they weren’t). He spent years claiming that former President Barack Obama was born in Kenya (he wasn’t). He suggested that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s death may have…
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Teen Girl Was Sold to Pimp for $250 Before She Was Murdered: Report
Federal prosecutors have secured their first conviction in the brutal case of a 16-year-old Chicago girl who was murdered on Christmas Eve in 2016. On Tuesday, Charles McFee, 26, admitted to a judge that he delivered Desiree Robinson to an alleged pimp for a “finder’s fee” of $250 in December of that year. Within a…
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Sex Trafficking and the Super Bowl: There’s More at Play Sunday Than Just Football
On Sunday, when the Philadelphia Eagles and the New England Patriots meet for the Super Bowl, the spotlight in Minneapolis will be on more than the gridiron clash at U.S. Bank Stadium. Minnesota is the 13th top child trafficking and sex trafficking state in the country, and this poses a problem with the presence of…
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Watch: Bodycam Footage Released of Oklahoma Republican in Motel Room With Teen Boy
It’s hard to keep count of the barrage of terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad sexual abusers who have been outed this year, so let me reintroduce you to Ralph Shortey, the deplorable former Oklahoma state senator who pleaded guilty last week to federal charges of child sex trafficking. On Tuesday, Oklahoma police released bodycam footage…
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Former Oklahoma State Senator to Plead Guilty to Child Sex Trafficking Charge: Report
A former Oklahoma state senator is expected to plead guilty to a child sex trafficking charge later this month for offering to pay a 17-year-old boy for sexual “stuff” earlier this year, authorities said. According to The Oklahoman, Ralph Shortey, a Republican, will plead guilty, and in exchange, prosecutors have agreed to drop three child-pornography…