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Investigation into the Chinese Sex Mafia
A series of investigations uncovers a human trafficking ring in Ghana. Chinese girls are lured to the country by being promised singing careers in African operas but are then sold to wealthy individuals for sex.
Tags: Ghana; Africa; opera; Chinese; human trafficking; sex slavery; molestation; ring; sex mafia; anas aremeya; crusading guide;
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Fruit of the Poisonous Tree
This fourteen-part investigative series revealed how a prostitution and human trafficking ring could flourish in rural Iowa towns. The series also details the story of one 13-year-old runaway Minnesota girl was entrapped in the ring and was forced into prostitution. A ring operator, who was being beaten by her live-in boyfriend, helped rescue the girl from prostitution and helped her make her way to safety. Law enforcement officials first missed opportunities to help this girl and break the ring. But they finally solved who was behind the ring and assisted in a dozen human trafficking convictions.
Tags: human trafficking; sex abuse; prostitution; kidnapping; court hearings; Iowa; sex workers
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Air Marshals: Undercover and Under Arrest
The Federal Air Marshal Service presents the image of an elite undercover force charged with making life-and-death decisions that demand sound judgment. ProPublica found that dozens of air marshals have been charged with crimes, including 18 felonies, and hundreds more have been accused of misconduct. Cases include smuggling drugs past airport security, aiding a human trafficking ring, child sex abuse, bribery, drunken driving, domestic violence, holding an escort against her will during an overnight layover, solicitation to commit murder and voyeurism after one air marshal was caught taking photos of women's genitals on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
Tags: air marshals; Transportation Safety Agency; human trafficking; child sex abuse; drunken driving; domestic violence; criminal convictions
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Sex Slaves in America
The story is "the culmination of a year long investigation into the underreported epidemic of the forced trafficking of educated foreign women into the United States to work in the growing sex industry of massage parlors, strip clubs and cantinas in major American cities."
Tags: human trafficking; sex slaves; sex industry; sex rings; Detroit strip clubs; Houston cantinas; San Francisco's massage parlors; human rights violation
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Sex Slaves
Using hidden cameras, MSNBC.com investigated one of the most dangerous smuggling rings in Europe. They "showed the gruesome fate of thousands of women sold into sex slavery in Europe." They also "followed the trail of vast quantities of guns and drugs smuggled into Europe and mapped how the intersection of these three black markets was undermining efforts to restore order in the war ravaged region."
Tags: sex slaves; drugs; guns; smuggling; Europe; hidden cameras; online; CD; tape
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Sex, drugs and cops
This story examines a sex-for-drug ring run by a police chief and state trooper. WTVR reveals how the police chief and state trooper took advantage of women addicted to drugs by offering them more drugs in exchange for sex."
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Did Clinton Bug the Conclave for Cash? Snoops, Sex and Videotape, Snooping on Allies Embarrasses U.S.
Intelligence agents claim the Clinton administration bugged the 1993 Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Seattle to obtain information on international deals that helped enrich corporate friends of the DNC. In the course of the operation, FBI agents stumbled into a child prostitution ring and discovered agents taking kickbacks.
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KREM-2 News began investigating the so-called Wenatchee child sex ring in March of 1995. For the next nine months, KREM continued to examine the methods used by police, prosecutors and child protective services workers. KREM discovered that the sex ring was being driven by an investigator whose own foster daughter was the primary witness in the cases. (March 27 - Dec. 15, 1995)
Tags: Grant Regehr CAR Wenatchee Contest entry Children 84 pgs. TAPE
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Arizona Republic reports on an experimental procedure for young sex offenders, which some critics call child abuse; treatment involves placing a ring around the child's penis linked to a computer, showing the child pornographic materials and gauging their sexual arousal with a computer; the child was ordered to inhale ammonia if the response was deemed by researchers to be inappropriate, June - December 1992.
Tags: AZ Young
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New Times (Phoenix) writes of a Mesa policeman who sexually molested his daughter and disclosed a sex ring in the police force after he was arrested for his crime; the officer would encourage fellow officers to have sex with his wife in order to be able to blackmail them, Nov. 6 - 12, 1991.
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