human trafficking
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In a landmark case reflecting growing accountability in the hospitality industry, a Georgia hotel has agreed to pay $6 million to a survivor of child sex trafficking, who says the motel’s staff and ownership knowingly allowed her to be repeatedly raped and exploited by dozens of men when she was just 15 years old. Dashaundra…
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Atlanta rapper Ca$h Out, born John-Michael Hakim Gibson, has been found guilty on multiple serious charges following a six-week trial in Fulton County. The verdict came after just one day of jury deliberation, capping a years-long investigation into an alleged sex trafficking ring operating under the guise of a music label. According to Atlanta News…
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Legal professionals and international watchdogs are sounding the alarm over a growing illegal organ trafficking industry in Africa. Human rights advocates are warning that impoverished individuals are being targeted and exploited to fuel a multi-billion-dollar underground market. According to a 2018 investigation by Deutsche Welle (DW), Nigerian human rights lawyer Frank Tietie described the trade…
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Eugene Henley Jr., also known as “Big U,” a longtime leader of the Rollin’ 60s Neighborhood Crips and an entertainment entrepreneur, has been charged in a federal complaint alleging that he led a criminal enterprise involved in murder, extortion, human trafficking, fraud, and other racketeering crimes, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Henley, 58, of…
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Lydia Mugambe, a United Nations judge and Ugandan High Court justice, has been convicted of multiple offenses under the UK’s Modern Slavery Act 2015. The 49-year-old was found guilty at Oxford Crown Court of conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law, facilitating travel for exploitation, forcing an individual to work, and conspiracy to…
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Donald Ray Lantz and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, a couple from West Virginia, face serious charges for allegedly enslaving their adopted Black children, forcing them to perform labor, and confining them in inhumane conditions. This case has raised significant concerns about racial targeting and human trafficking. Lantz, 63, and Whitefeather, 62, were initially arrested in October…
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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ legal team has taken a bold step in response to the sexual assault lawsuit brought against him by Joi Dickerson-Neal. On April 26, a motion was filed seeking the dismissal of certain claims in the lawsuit, citing an interesting reason: the laws against them did not exist at the time of the…
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An Alabama man, Jeremy Tremaine Williams, has pleaded guilty to capital murder charges for the sexual abuse and killing of a 5-year-old girl, Kamarie Holland, in a case that has shocked the nation. However, despite the guilty plea, prosecutors face the daunting task of proving the homicide case in a trial scheduled to begin April…
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