It has been a couple of years since I’ve done one of these. In that time I've dated, remarried, started writing fiction, reconnected with my family properly in the USA, lost and gained much. I figured with the news in the media of Diddy eating the air wares of all oxygen for trafficking, it was worth restarting the Orbital View series.

I still haven't found a way to make this less of a problem for my mental health, but it's been so long that I'm worried people are missing some big hits. It's also been so long that I am going to be rehashing things that probably/definitely were posted here as individual items, so apologies in advance.

At the time of writing this, I am having to jump through hoops to document things, as Archive.is is for some reason failing to load on my PC but works fine on my phone. If the links are broken for you, hopefully jumping on a new device will work. Something is wrong with the site’s nginx web service for PC, but not for mobiles. I always archive these to make sure they survive editing but sometimes the archive links are tetchy.

Anyways, enough with the intro. On with the fireball edition!

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1. Lynchburg, VA: Man arrested for sex trafficking: https://archive.is/f1jho
2. Scottsdale, AZ: Child sex trafficking ring leader caught: https://archive.is/jhWQa
3. San Diego, CA: Comic-Con Sex trafficking sting arrests 14 this past summer: https://archive.is/KRWKd
4. Rockford, IL: 6 men arrested in human traffficking Sting https://archive.is/ZLVYh
5. Thailand: British national arrested following child abuse investigations: https://archive.is/2TU0m
6. UK: Third woman arrested in Paisley brothel human trafficking probe: https://archive.is/64y28
7. UK: Nine arrested during major INTERPOL operation on human trafficking: https://archive.is/XnSSx
8. Polk County, FL: 157 people arrested, including 25 illegals, during Operation Autumn Sweep human trafficking sting: https://archive.is/OhuN7
9. USA: High end real estate agents, the Alexander brothers, arrested over sex trafficking charges involving clients being given the opportunity to assault women: https://archive.is/frVD6
10. Philadelphia, PA: 22 arrested for operating a human trafficking ring that existed for years: https://archive.is/T7p2P
11. Save the Children in Guatemala had its offices raided over child abuse allegations: https://archive.is/PD2VH
12. Los Angeles County CA: soccer coach arrested for possession of child porn: https://archive.is/ND8y1
13. Rio Vista, CA: Baseball coach arrested for child porn charges: https://archive.is/bJfOn
14. Canada: 17 arrested in Quebec over a child porn ring: https://archive.is/37TFa
15. India: 20 Places raided and 10 arrested in child pron sting: https://archive.is/wTc6B
16. South Africa: Two arrested in international child porn probe: https://archive.is/dvQLp
17. Dallas, TX: 28 children rescued, 59 adults arrested in massive CP sting: https://archive.is/4mWRP
18. Concordia Parish, 8 A: Multi-agency sting uncovers two child exploitation rings in Louisiana: https://archive.is/82tEh
19. Katy, TX: 2 arrested for trafficking children out of a motel for an escort site: https://archive.is/BNM5I
20. UK: Suspected human trafficking ring arrested in Midlands after children are threatened with violence: https://archive.is/hnLJP
21. Tasmania/Philippines: Six kids saved, Philippine child abuse ring dismantled after Tasmanian man arrested: https://archive.is/I6qaz
22. Australia: Sex ring busted in Sydney with man charged with child trafficking via 1. Indonesia: https://archive.is/nDJNZ
23. USA: Oldy for this year and previously reported - AF CEO Mike Jeffries arrested for operating a sex trafficking ring via Abercrombie and Fitch: https://archive.is/RrIf7
24. UK/Europe: Woman speaks out to the BBC on her harrowing experience as a victim of Gregorian Bivolaru: https://archive.is/y5fsw
25. USA: Another old one - Cartoon Network Animator arrested for Child Sex abuse content: https://archive.is/w6DLF
26. Philippines: Fugitive pastor accused of child trafficking by US: https://archive.is/N8MRE

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That’s all for this week that I can provide, but feel free to send me anything you want to report in comments or DM. Happy to provide more for next week. And as always…

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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

And as always, Remember - NCSWIC. NOTHING.