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| | Sex offenders set up camp | | | Monday, September 28, 2009 (10:39 AM)
(I'm feeling annoyed) | | Original story posted By GREG BLUESTEIN, AP
MARIETTA, Ga. (Sept. 28) -- A small group of homeless sex offenders have set up camp in densely wooded area behind a suburban Atlanta office park, directed there by probation officers who say it's a place of last resort for those with nowhere else to go.
The nine sex offenders live in tents surrounding a makeshift fire pit in the trees behind a towering "no trespassing" sign, waiting out their probation sentences as they face numerous living restrictions under one of the nation's toughest sex offender policies.
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| | The Girls Next Door | | | Wednesday, September 2, 2009 (1:07 AM)
(I'm feeling crappy) | | The Girls Next Door (How Sex Trafficking Works)
From The New York Times,
By PETER LANDESMAN
The house at 1212 1/2 West Front Street in Plainfield, N.J., is a conventional midcentury home with slate-gray siding, white trim and Victorian lines. When I stood in front of it on a breezy day in October, I could hear the cries of children from the playground of an elementary school around the corner. American flags fluttered from porches and windows. The neighborhood is a leafy, middle-class Anytown. The house is set back off the street, near two convenience stores and a gift shop. On the door of Superior Supermarket was pasted a sign issued by the Plainfield police: ''Safe neighborhoods save lives.'' The store's manager, who refused to tell me his name, said he never noticed anything unusual about the house, and never heard anything. But David Miranda, the young man behind the counter of Westside Convenience, told me he saw girls from the house roughly once a week. ''They came in to buy candy and soda, then went back to the house,'' he said. The same girls rarely came twice, and they were all very young, Miranda said. They never asked for anything beyond what they were purchasing; they certainly never asked for help. Cars drove up to the house all day; nice cars, all kinds of cars. Dozens of men came and went. ''But no one here knew what was really going on,'' Miranda said. And no one ever asked.
On a tip, the Plainfield police raided the house in February 2002, expecting to find illegal aliens working an underground brothel. What the police found were four girls between the ages of 14 and 17. They were all Mexican nationals without documentation. But they weren't prostitutes; they were sex slaves. The distinction is important: these girls weren't working for profit or a paycheck. They were captives to the traffickers and keepers who controlled their every move. ''I consider myself hardened,'' Mark J. Kelly, now a special agent with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the largest investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security), told me recently. ''I spent time in the Marine Corps. But seeing some of the stuff I saw, then heard about, from those girls was a difficult, eye-opening experience.''
The police found a squalid, land-based equivalent of a 19th-century slave ship, with rancid, doorless bathrooms; bare, putrid mattresses; and a stash of penicillin, ''morning after'' pills and misoprostol, an antiulcer medication that can induce abortion. The girls were pale, exhausted and malnourished.
It turned out that 1212 1/2 West Front Street was one of what law-enforcement officials say are dozens of active stash houses and apartments in the New York metropolitan area -- mirroring hundreds more in other major cities like Los Angeles, Atlanta and Chicago -- where under-age girls and young women from dozens of countries are trafficked and held captive. Most of them -- whether they started out in Eastern Europe or Latin America -- are taken to the United States through Mexico. Some of them have been baited by promises of legitimate jobs and a better life in America; many have been abducted; others have been bought from or abandoned by their impoverished families.
Because of the porousness of the U.S.-Mexico border and the criminal networks that traverse it, the towns and cities along that border have become the main staging area in an illicit and barbaric industry, whose ''products'' are women and girls. On both sides of the border, they are rented out for sex for as little as 15 minutes at a time, dozens of times a day. Sometimes they are sold outright to other traffickers and sex rings, victims and experts say. These sex slaves earn no money, there is nothing voluntary about what they do and if they try to escape they are often beaten and sometimes killed.
Last September, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, President Bush named sex trafficking as ''a special evil | | | | 68 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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| | Hiding in Plain Sight | | | | Saturday, August 29, 2009 (11:46 AM) | | Kidnapping victim was not always locked away
Jaycee Dugard never hinted at real identity during series of e-mails, chats
Original story --- By Jesse McKinley and Carol Pogash -- New York Times
updated 2:17 a.m. PT, Sat., Aug 29, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO - About a year ago, Ben Daughdrill drove to the home of Phillip Garrido near the Bay Area suburb of Antioch to check on a printing job he had hired Mr. Garrido to do.
Mr. Daughdrill was met by a polite young woman with blonde hair who Mr. Garrido had said was his daughter Allissa.
“She was the design person; she did the art work; she was the genius,” Mr. Daughdrill said.
Mr. Daughdrill said that he had regularly exchanged e-mail messages and even spoken on the phone with Allissa, but that she had never hinted at her real identity or at the secret of her life with Mr. Garrido.
The woman, in fact, was Jaycee Dugard, the authorities say, and on Friday, Mr. Garrido, 58, and his wife, Nancy, 54, were arraigned on more than two dozen counts of kidnapping, rape, false imprisonment and other charges in connection with Ms. Dugard’s abduction in 1991 as she walked to a bus stop in South Lake Tahoe. She was 11.
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pdf - Identifying trafficing victims
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| | Everyday Sex Trade | | | Friday, August 28, 2009 (3:19 PM)
(I'm feeling confused) | | For almost a year, 20-year-old Katya, a university student from Ukraine was forced to work strip clubs in Detroit by two men she thought were taking her to a waitressing job in America. Alex Maksimenko’s and Michail Aronov imprisoned her and 15 other women in separate apartments around Detroit. Katya: "We couldn't kept any money in our apartment because the guys has keys. They have, I believe, there was listen us in the apartment. And we could not hide nothing. They're say, if they find at least a dollar, it will be something bad happen to us." The 12 hour shifts yielded up to $1000 a night but the women saw none of it.
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| | Brittanee Drexel | | | | Monday, August 17, 2009 (5:11 PM) | | Broswick, the 20-year-old who is reportedly the last one to see Brittanee, has hired defense attorney John Parrinello.
Parrinello says his client is fully cooperating with investigators and hopes the young lady is okay.
Apparently his well wishes do not include mentioning “the young lady”, Brittanee Marie Drexel, by name.
In an interview with WHAM, Brittanee’s Mom, Dawn Drexel said:
” Peter, we need to know what’s going on. “Brittanee is very special to us. We need to know what is going on. We need to know why the authorities weren’t called. We need answers and we’re not getting them,” | | | | 89 Views | 0 Thumbs Up | 0 Comments | |
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| | Pedofile John Doe 8 | | | | Friday, August 14, 2009 (9:17 PM) | | KNOWINGLY DISTRIBUTING OR AIDING IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF VISUAL DEPICTIONS, VIA INTERSTATE COMMERCE, OF A MINOR ENGAGING IN SEXUALLY EXPLICIT CONDUCT
John Doe #8
Mark on right forearm
Ring on left hand
Unknown Suspect
THE DETAILS SURROUNDING THE CRIME
Law enforcement officials are seeking information which will lead to the identification of this unknown suspect. On September 28, 2006, a federal grand jury in a United States District Court indicted this individual for knowingly distributing or aiding in the distribution of visual depictions, via interstate commerce, of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Images of this person abusing a young girl were found in a video on the Internet in May of 2005.
The individual is described as a White male, approximately 180 to 200 pounds, with brown hair. He has a dark circular mark on his right forearm (Shown Above).
The current whereabouts of this individual are unknown.
IF YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PERSON, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE OR THE NEAREST AMERICAN EMBASSY OR CONSULATE.
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| | Amber Alert: Today -- June 21, 2009 | | | Sunday, June 21, 2009 (12:50 PM)
(I'm feeling busy) | | Amber Alert
Missing From: Southern Pines, NC
Missing Date:
Issued for: North Carolina: Statewide
Contact: If you have information, please contact Southern Pines Police Department, (910)692-7031 OR 911
Circumstances:
UPDATE 2: Missing date and time updated.
UPDATE: Child's photo added.
The Child was taken from the National Guard Armory at 510 W. Morganton Rd. in Southern Pines. No direction of travel at this time. If you have any information regarding this abduction, call the Souther Pines P.D. immediately at (910) 692-7031, or call 911 or *HP.
Missing Child
Name: Gabriela Patricia Velazquez
Alias:
Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Hispanic Age: 14YO
Height: 5FT4 Weight: 120LB
Gender: Female
Description: The victim has a birth mark on the right calf and was last seen wearing a white shirt, blue jeans and high heel shoes.
Suspect
Name: Ciro Alonso Salinas
Alias:
Hair Color: Black Eye Color: Brown
Skin Color: Hispanic Age: 20YO
Height: 5FT6 Weight: 140LB
Gender: Male
Description: The suspect was last seen wearing a black shirt, black dress pants and black shoes.
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