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Search results for "Child Trafficking" ...
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Deceptive Nonprofit
Investigation of "Stop Child Trafficking Now" nonprofit. Despite bold claims at its fundraising events, the investigation found SCTNow was not living up to its promoted message of taking child predators off the streets. In fact, the organization could not point to one case anywhere in the country where information gathered by "special operatives" had lead to an arrest or prosecution. It did not seem like much of a return on a $400,000 investment- the annual amount used to fund "special operative" teams.
Tags: Child Trafficking; Nonprofits
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Ethiopian Adoption Scans
The number of adoptions of orphans from Ethiopia to the US more than tripled from 2006 to 2009. CBS found that at least one US adoption agency in Ethiopia was involved in fraud and child trafficking while agency managers in the US were looking the other way.
Tags: adoption; Ethiopia; child trafficking;
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Biggest Nonprofit Fraud of our Time
Sandy Frost uncovers a network of prostitution, human trafficking and child sex tourism in the secret Masonic subgroup, the Royal Order of Jesters (ROJ). Frost found that Jester groups paid for prostitution rooms and the society was linked to Richard Schair, a former fishing tour operator who brought North American into the Amazon for sex with minor, Indigenous girls.
Tags: Richard Schair; Royal Order of Jesters; Jesters; Mason; Sandy Frost; prostitution; child abuse; human trafficking; sex;
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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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The Youngest Profession: Seattle is a Hub for Luring Teens into Lives of Prostitution
A look into the explosion of child prostitution in Seattle in 2005. Rowe found some girls as young as 11 being prostituted.
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Children for Sale
Dateline teams up with the International Justice Mission, a human rights group, to investigate the business of selling children for sex. They focus on Cambodia where many sexual predators from around the world come to buy young children. Victims are interviewed as well as adult exploiters of children and various political figures comment on the problem.
Tags: Child sex trade; human trafficking; international human rights; US Aid
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Mother Country
Westword reports on a family who adopted a Russian daughter, but wound up with a court case. The Thomases' newly adopted daughter, Elena, wasn't adjusting well to her new family. The family itself seemed to be falling apart. When Mrs. Thomas offered to let a Texas couple adopt her away from them she was charged with felonious trafficking of a child.
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Baby for Sale
A Michigan man tried to sell his youngest 10-month-old daughter to help pay the bills. Prosecutors tried to prosecute Larry Schaub for child abandonment because until Sept. 1., Michigan was one of 25 states that did not explicitly outlaw selling another person or "trafficking in humans." Prosecutors had to use an old case from 1857 to prove that selling a child is grounds for abandonment, because the child is exposed to danger.
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St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times discloses a Florida law passed in 1974 that allows criminal records to be sealed, wiping clean the records of people convicted of murder, child abuse, drug trafficking and sexual assault among other crimes; names individuals who have had convictions cleared of the record, Sept. 30, 1991.
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Ann Arbor News investigates the rising number of juvenile and child criminals in and around Ann Arbor who have committed such crimes as assault, rape and murder; the rise in drug trafficking is blamed, April 22 - 23, 1990.
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