Mexican women to testify in sex trafficking trial

[HaiThangThaiTu]

Good call FB.

Happens almost everywhere, including the US.

Nongoverment Groups press the authorities to strike against people trafickers.
Like placing strickter laws, going out on the field and disolve said mentioned slave traffickers.

But when the authorities go to the field, they find no one.
So they do nothing.

NGG will say that the police is on the take, that they are corrupt, so are the officials and politicians that turn a blind eye towards slave trafficking.

It's a cycle.

 

[Ox CHERRYLiCiOUS* xO]

Fireballs,

Do you think people feel most are sex slaves?

When I think of sex slaves, the first thing that comes to mind are the Asian girls kept locked in a house....but I think that represents a very small minority of sex workers.

 

[Pompal 09.]

Here is another post that may start to convince some mongers that not all prostitutes are "sex slaves:"

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Inquiry fails to find single trafficker who forced anybody into prostitution

The UK's biggest ever investigation of sex trafficking failed to find a single person who had forced anybody into prostitution in spite of hundreds of raids on sex workers in a six-month campaign by government departments, specialist agencies and every police force in the country.

The failure has been disclosed by a Guardian investigation which also suggests that the scale of and nature of sex trafficking into the UK has been exaggerated by politicians and media.

Current and former ministers have claimed that thousands of women have been imported into the UK and forced to work as sex slaves, but most of these statements were either based on distortions of quoted sources or fabrications without any source at all.

While some prosecutions have been made, the Guardian investigation suggests the number of people who have been brought into the UK and forced against their will into prostitution is much smaller than claimed; and that the problem of trafficking is one of a cluster of factors which expose sex workers to coercion and exploitation.

Acting on the distorted information, the government has produced a bill, now moving through its final parliamentary phase, which itself has provoked an outcry from sex workers who complain that, instead of protecting them, it will expose them to extra danger.

When police in July last year announced the results of Operation Pentameter Two, Jacqui Smith, then home secretary, hailed it as "a great success". Its operational head, Tim Brain, said it had seriously disrupted organised crime networks responsible for human trafficking. "The figures show how successful we have been in achieving our goals," he said.

Those figures credited Pentameter with "arresting 528 criminals associated with one of the worst crimes threatening our society". But an internal police analysis of Pentameter, obtained by the Guardian after a lengthy legal struggle, paints a very different picture.

The analysis, produced by the police Human Trafficking Centre in Sheffield and marked "restricted", suggests there was a striking shoreforum.xxxe of sex traffickers to be found in spite of six months of effort by all 55 police forces in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland together with the UK Border Agency, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the Foreign Office, the Northern Ireland Office, the Scottish government, the Crown Prosecution Service and various NGOs in what was trumpeted as "the largest ever police crackdown on human trafficking".

The analysis reveals that 10 of the 55 police forces never found anyone to arrest. And 122 of the 528 arrests announced by police never happened: they were wrongly recorded either through honest bureaucratic error or apparent deceit by forces trying to chalk up arrests which they had not made. Among the 406 real arrests, more than half of those arrested (230) were women, and most were never implicated in trafficking at all.

Of the 406 real arrests, 153 had been released weeks before the police announced the success of the operation: 106 of them without any charge at all and 47 after being cautioned for minor offences. Most of the remaining 253 were not accused of trafficking: 73 were charged with immigration breaches; 76 were eventually convicted of non-trafficking offences involving drugs, driving or management of a brothel; others died, absconded or disappeared off police records.

Although police described the operation as "the culmination of months of planning and intelligence-gathering from all those stakeholders involved", the reality was that, during six months of national effort, they found only 96 people to arrest for trafficking, of whom 67 were charged.

Forty-seven of those never made it to court.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/oct/20/government-trafficking-enquiry-fails

 

[lmechwarrior]

I agree with Fireballs.

Depends on what media you are watching: if it's American, they end on you side.
If it's Mexican, they finish their trek on the border towns.

 

[ashii]

According to most prostitution sites, SG's and her Padrote end up in TJ or some other border town, or places like Mexico city, and according to the media, the USA is suppose to be the final destination for sex slave girls(SGs)

Oh shit, I didn't look at the date of that article, it's 2005 ages ago. It's nothing but old news.

 

[JUSTIN BIEBER FTW!!!!!!]

Alot of the SG's in Tijuana are in the same situation.

 

[latissimus dorsi]

Links dead but damn, what a fucked up situation!

 

[SamJenkins]

Floyd Report:
Mexican women to testify in sex trafficking trial
Mon Apr 4, 2005 22:01
64.140.158.184


Mexican women to testify in sex trafficking trial

BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO
STAFF WRITER
http://www.floydreport.com/view_article.php?lid=5609


Three men from Mexico who investigators said smooth-talked women with tales of love and adoration are scheduled to go on trial Monday on federal sex trafficking charges.

In jail since they were arrested in February 2004, the men will be the first to be tried in the New York federal courts under the tough anti-trafficking law passed in 2000.

They face maximum terms of life in prison if convicted of trafficking and forced labor. The men rejected an offer to serve 14 years under a plea bargain.

Josue Flores Carreto, 38, his brother Gerardo Flores Carreto, 33, and Daniel Perez Alonso, 24, are charged with being members of a gang of human traffickers who smuggled young women from Mexico to city brothels. The women lived in two houses in Corona.

Prosecutors allege that the Carreto ring had close ties with relatives in the town of Tenancingo, Mexico, which has become notorious to U.S. law enforcement for sex trafficking. The ring is believed by officials to have operated from 1991 to early 2004, when investigators raided two apartments in Corona.

While federal prosecutor Daniel Alonso has charged that the defendants used deception, fraud and rape, as well as forced abortion, to compel the women to work as prostitutes, defense attorneys portray a different picture.

"The women are their wives, and they [the wives] love them," said attorney Michael Musa-Obregon, who is representing Gerardo Carreto, a professional pool player. "They were doing prostitution before they came here."

Musa-Obregon said the Carreto case is different from many of the Eastern European sex trafficking cases because, unlike European suspects, the Mexican men had personal relationships with the women involved. The prostitution, he said, was a joint venture between the men and women, who were free to come and go as they pleased, said attorney Telesforo Del Valle Jr., who is representing Josue Carreto.

Not so, said prosecutor Alonso, who in court papers has said the government will be presenting the testimony of at least eight of the Carreto women in which they will describe how they were in some case hoodwinked and forced to work in prostitution.

"The defendants' modus operandi was to recruit young, uneducated women and girls from impoverished areas of Mexico and use some combination of deception, fraud, coercion, rape, forced abortion, threats and physical violence to compel them to prostitute themselves," Alonso said in his memorandum.

The women charged $25 to $35 for a sex session with customers, but they rarely saw any money, Alonso said. Instead, investigators believe that half of the payment went to the brothel manager while the rest went to the defendants.

Two women, relatives of the Carretos, were arrested in Mexico and are expected to be extradited to the United States on related charges.

The government plans to have eight women, all identified as Jane Doe, take the stand to recount a litany of deception and abuse.

Jane Doe 1 is supposedly the wife of Josue Carreto and met him at age 17 in 1998 in Tenancingo. Soon after seducing her with promises of love and marriage, Josue Carreto married Jane Doe 1 and brought her illegally to New York, court records allege.

In New York, Jane Doe 1 had a hellish existence of beatings, threats and a forced abortion, prosecutors said.

The women are eligible to get special visas to allow them to remain in the United States.

"This is an example of when victims can take advaneforum.xxxe of the laws," attorney Del Valle said about the visa benefit.

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