DOJ, Nov. 20, 2018 - "Defendants Michael Wood, 54, and Mary Wood, 46, of Mullica Hill, New Jersey, were sentenced yesterday in federal court to 20 months in prison and ordered to pay $46,320 in restitution to the victim in this case. A jury convicted both...
Danielle Lopez, The Alcalde, May/June 2017 - "According to a report published in February by a group of UT researchers at the Institute of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault, there are currently more than 300,000 minors and adults across Texas who have been...
Rana v. Islam, Sept. 26, 2016 - "Mashud Parves Rana brings this action against his former employers, Monirul Islam and his wife, Fahima Tashina Prova, for violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act ("TVPA"), 18 U.S.c. §...
DOJ, June 27, 2016 - "According to documents filed in the case and admissions made in court in connection with the guilty pleas, the defendants and their associates recruited workers from Guatemala, some as young as 14 or 15 years old, by falsely promising...
"Not since the days of slavery have so many residents of the United States lacked the most basic social, economic, and human rights." - Douglas S. Massey, Summer 2013 issue of Daedalus , the Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
"A federal jury will resume deliberations Friday in the case of an upstate New York woman accused of cheating an Indian household servant out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in pay and keeping her a virtual prisoner at a mansion. The jury in Albany went...
"This month, we rededicate ourselves to stopping one of the greatest human rights abuses of our time. Around the world, millions of men, women, and children are bought, sold, beaten, and abused, locked in compelled service and hidden in darkness. They toil...
" The State Department on Tuesday cited abuses in Thailand's huge fishing industry as part of an annual worldwide report on Trafficking in Persons . The report noted that men from Cambodia and Myanmar, also known as Burma, are trafficked aboard Thai ships...
"An astounding 27 million men, women, and children are currently held in slavery around the world, but the fight to eradicate the practice got a big boost Wednesday when Google announced that it's giving $11.5 million to help several leading organizations...
DOJ, Oct. 19, 2011 : "Edk Kenit, 28, and Choimina Lukas, 30, a Micronesian couple living in Longview, Wash., were sentenced today for their roles in a scheme to compel the labor of an 18-year-old woman, also from Micronesia. Kenit...
Georgia Woman Sentenced to 140 Months in Prison for Human Trafficking of Two Young Women from Nigeria Bidemi Bello Also Loses Her U.S. Citizenship ATLANTA- Bidemi Bello, 42, formerly of Suwanee, Ga., was sentenced today in Atlanta by U.S. District...
"Cruz alleges that she was forced to work for the defendants for wages well below the minimum from 2002 until her escape in 2008. The district court dismissed all of her claims as time-barred. We affirm the district court’s dismissal of Cruz’s state law...