I know we are all on a high over Kyle's acquittal, but there is more good news which must be told from across the globe. The children are being saved by more than just sensible jurors.
Here's today's human trafficking news
- Los Angeles, California, USA - a church leader and two of his administration team were among 9 people charged in a sealed indictment involving sexual abuse of women and children. The leader of the KOJC church, Apollo Quiboloy, is an ally, an admitted "close friend" , and "spiritual adviser" of President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines. Quiboloy threatened victims as young as 12 with eternal damnation if they didnt have sex with him. More victims are thought to be in Washington state: https://archive.md/KPFWi and https://archive.md/1W7rw
- Nigeria - massive win as the government reports 100 children rescued and 120 traffickers nabbedover the past six months: https://archive.md/uIMqO
- Hong Kong - three female predators plead guilty to coercing a teenage girl into prostitution with sex tapes: https://archive.md/3rkR3
- Nepal - destiny rescue saves 34 (17x2) women and children from a life of trafficking: https://archive.md/TrVC6
- Columbia, South Carolina, USA - update to the earlier story from the week (see below for same region in the ICYMI section), count of offenders arrested now at 23: https://archive.md/oiy5V
- Fulton County, Georgia, USA - federal agent among 10 arrested during prostitution sting (suck it shills, your badge wont save you from the round up): https://archive.md/jXFMq
- Mesa, Arizona, USA - report on operation "Deja Boo" just dropped. op nets 30 pedos in October: https://archive.md/bTlh8
- Panama City, Florida, USA - after a six month op, multiple people arrested from 6 spas for prostitution charges: https://archive.md/JRXM2
- Tuscon, Arizona, USA - woman admits to trafficking 100 people for profit: https://archive.md/1BcYP
- Nashville, Tennessee, USA - four men arrested for human trafficking for prostitution purposes in recent operation: https://archive.md/JoZrX
- Australia pt 1: western Australia man charged with possession of child porn: https://archive.md/aOUOl
- Australia pt 2: man charged with abusing children overseas: https://archive.md/lfwVh
- Australia pt 3: Sydney man charged with procuring a child for sex: https://archive.md/sx9Z8
- Australia pt 4: Victoria man jailed for long distance child abuse, he would request and direct what happened to children in the Philippines live over the net: https://archive.md/TFmia
- San Leandro, California, USA - two arrested for sex crimes and kidnapping: https://archive.md/iovus
- Phnom Penh, Cambodia - further details on the Cambodia article from thursday, 40 Chinese arrested for trafficking offenses, rescued total now up to 99: https://archive.md/f0soI
- Warren, Michigan, USA - police bust chinese massage parlors, 6 women arrested: https://archive.md/QD5AC
- El Paso, Texas, USA - 80 foreign nationals with criminal charges outstanding captures since October 1st: https://archive.md/rKG7B
ICYMI - News from the rest of the week
- Netherlands - 17 men arrested for sex with a minor, as well as 3 drivers who facilitated the arrangement: https://archive.md/7STkz
- Jackson, Mississippi, USA - 10 day operation nets 13 arrests and 43 saved victims: https://archive.md/oScz1
- San Antonio, Texas, USA - 7 men indicted by grand jury for soliciting children for sex over social media: https://archive.md/RDv1s
- Texas, USA - four MS-13 gang members and two migrants with sex offenses arrested at the border: https://archive.md/koPsT
- Houston, Texas, USA - two men sentenced for sex trafficking teenage girl: https://archive.md/ziOGX
- Little Rock, Arkansas, USA - two men plead guilty to conspiracy to commit child sex trafficking of a 6yr old girl. This one ain't for the faint hearted I'm sorry to say: https://archive.md/zDGv5
- Fairfield County, Ohio, USA - 23 arrested in human trafficking sting op over the past 2 weeks: https://archive.md/GBO3u
- Pueblo, Colorado, USA - 7 men, including a soldier, arrested for solicitation of child prostitution: https://archive.md/GBO3u
- Spain - two suspected sex traffickers arrested, one victim rescued: https://archive.md/KWxDV
- Spain / France / Paraguay - international sex trafficking syndicate broken. four arrested in Spain, 11 in France, 4 in Paraguay arrested for sex trafficking Paraguayan women: https://archive.md/k0uad
- San Leandro, California, USA - teenager trafficked from Honduras accuses couple in California of rape and grooming her into prostitution: https://archive.md/4K6Q6
- France - after complaints from the UK over their lacklustre efforts at stopping trafficking, France begins dismantling migrant camps on the shoreline, 48 detained: https://archive.md/YDCAz
- Europol - 18 victims of child trafficking identified, 9 rescued: https://archive.md/v69Jr
- United Kingdom - 3 arrested for running a prostitution ring using vulnerable women for financial gain: https://archive.md/YStaS
- Fairfax County, Virginia, USA - two cops accused of human trafficking by Costa Rican victim. These cops informed the traffickers detaining her of sting ops against them: https://archive.md/6a6fJ
- Uttarakhand, India - a man running a kidney harvesting racket via a charity hospital is arrested by police after absconding in 2017. 17 others in the ring also arrested: https://archive.md/osgD2
- Puducherry, India - three arrested in child prostitution case, including "friends of police member". 10 others arrested, ten women rescued: https://archive.md/2ZAhs
- Maharashtra, India - this one particularly hurt to read. Minor rescued after being sold as a child bride, and then raped by 400 different people, including a cop, over the course of six months. Victim is now two months pregnant & seeking to abort. Only 4 arrested so far, but the hunt for the other 99% of suspects is on: https://archive.md/57zjx
- Mumbai, India - serial predator accused of trafficking multiple minors arrested, one victim saved: https://archive.md/k1yxB
- Chandon, Nebraska, USA 🚨 AMBER ALERT 🚨 - police seek information on Antoinette White Plume, 13 yr old native American girl. Missing since Tuesday: https://archive.md/CRv3V
- Columbia, South Carolina, USA - multiple men arrested on child sex abuse and possession of child pornography: https://archive.md/D7BJG
- Santa Barbara County, California, USA - sheriff sting op nets 4 arrests, three victims identified: https://archive.md/J1OIf
- Italy - 'Ndrangheta arrests continue, 100 more across Italy, weakening the Molè clan significantly: https://archive.md/i26dQ
- Middle District, Florida, USA - two sealed indictments revealed. An international syndicate, operating a sexually exploitative "child modelling" agency, has two key members arrested in Florida and Bulgaria: https://archive.md/r6yMD
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA - two day operation nets 11 men for seeking illicit sex from minors and one woman for promoting prostitution: https://archive.md/FcbAz
- Toronto, Canada - three arrested in human trafficking investigation: https://archive.md/VJASk
- Edinburg, Texas, USA - Disruption of two stash houses leads to several arrests: https://archive.md/sFymx
- El Paso, Texas, USA - arrest of fugitive sought for child trafficking for sexual purposes: https://archive.md/nTsa3
- Edinburg, Texas, USA - over 45( migrants apprehended in October: https://archive.md/3tqPa
- Detroit, Michigan, USA - one arrested for human trafficking, 2 adults and one minor rescued: https://archive.md/yJvGS
- Durham, Canada - 3 arrested for human trafficking: https://archive.md/wqpsz
- Rhodes Island, Greece - 10 arrested for human trafficking involving minors: https://archive.md/ZNEdQ
- McAllen. Texas, USA - 78 arrests this week, including 53 migrants found in a stash house: https://archive.md/5KTdE
- Eagle Pass, Texas, USA - agents rescue 5yr girl from an island: https://archive.md/TnqSX
- Edinburg, Texas, USA - multiple criminal migrants arrested: https://archive.md/xRdAb
- Calexico, California, USA - sex offender arrested: https://archive.md/AfgFV
- CBP, USA Border - October update: https://archive.md/GrHNT
- San Joaquin, Texas, USA - 202 arrests in ten days for offenses including child sex crimes: https://archive.md/ENAEu
- Ethiopia - government detains over 1000 people, including ten UN staff members and 34 drivers. Curious: https://archive.md/H0wx0
- Europe - 18k children migrants now missing: https://archive.md/qEXh0
- Poland - two Russian nationals and one Ukrainian citizen charged with trafficking migrants to Germany: https://archive.md/fyOny
- Genoa, Nebraska, USA - a historical crime against native Americans, ground penetrating radar discovers 102 graves of children at a federal school for Native Americans: https://archive.md/KprQn
- Nigeria - 173 criminals arrested in Kano for offenses including kidnapping and human trafficking: https://archive.md/RH4Ve
- Australia - owner of The Cake Merchant chain of stores charged with human trafficking and slavery: https://archive.md/LFxv8
- Thailand/Cambodia - 60 thai workers to be repatriated after being conned into being trafficked to Cambodia for work: https://archive.md/vooJV
- Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA - pastor among 17 men caught soliciting sex from minors in sting op: https://archive.md/i9qcR
- Johnstown, Pennsylvania, USA - father and two sons accused of raping a young girl: https://archive.md/XGJQh
- Middle District, Pennsylvania, USA - Three men charged with child prostitution: https://archive.md/u8Q3U
- Thailand - 11 arrested for possession of child porn with intent to distribute: https://archive.md/y2m4u
- South Africa - two arrested gor human trafficking after claims one of them, a missionary, sexually abused members of the congregation: https://archive.md/fNuwV
- Cyprus - 18 women suspected of being trafficked from Russia and the Ukraine found in a property, 10 "patrons" also identified: https://youtu.be/2qdIzid4tc0 and https://archive.md/UthXY
- Greece - 7 foreigners rescued from trafficking gang in a forest, 3 gang members arrested: https://archive.md/RMvNS
- India - woman arrested for pushing teenagers into prostitution: https://archive.md/rQska
- India pt 2 - 3 traffickers arrested, 10 victims rescued including 2 minors: https://archive.md/h9L9z
- India pt 3 - sex racket busted in Delhi: https://archive.md/lZVET
- India pt 4 - prostitution racket busted: https://archive.md/2CzjH
- India pt 5 - human trafficking ring busted: https://archive.md/TYx9N
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US contact details
NCMEC Urgent victim help 24-Hour Hotline: 1-800-843-5678
NCMEC Cybertiplines: https://report.cybertip.org/ or https://www.missingkids.org/gethelpnow/cybertipline or call 1-800-THE-LOST
National Human Trafficking Hotline: 888-373-7888 or humantraffickinghotline.org
HSI/ICE toll-free hotline: 1-866-DHS-2ICE | Anonymous toll-free ICE Tip Line: (866) 347-2423 Tip Form: https://www.ice.gov/webform/ice-tip-form#wcm-survey-target-id
United Kingdom contact details
Urgent: 101 or Contact the Modern Slavery Helpline confidentially: 08000 121700 (24/7) https://www.modernslaveryhelpline.org/helplines Children support: 0800 1111 | Adults concerned about a child: 0808 800 5000 | https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ Report CSAM: https://report.iwf.org.uk/en/ | https://www.met.police.uk/ro/report/ocr/af/how-to-report-a-crime/ Scotland Police: https://www.scotland.police.uk/contact-us/
Interpol, Europol, & EU contact details
Contact Interpol: https://www.interpol.int/Contacts/Contact-INTERPOL https://www.interpol.int/What-you-can-do/If-you-need-help Europol tipline Tel.: +31 70 302 5000 | https://www.europol.europa.eu/report-a-crime EU Hotlines: https://ec.europa.eu/anti-trafficking/citizens-corner-national-hotlines/national-hotlines_en
South Africa contact details
South African National Human Trafficking Hotline: 0800222777 | https://0800222777.org.za/
Global contact details
Global: Human Trafficking Hotline Numbers: https://www.abolishion.org/human_trafficking_hotline_numbers Global: List of Emergency Telephone numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emergency_telephone_numbers
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Always do fren (to the remaining ears that will listen). Actually I'm a little less restrained than that, some ears have found they've little choice.