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From South China Morning Post:
Other than hotels, massage parlours are the number one venue for sex trafficking in the United States, according to Polaris, a leading anti-trafficking group.
More than 9,000 illicit massage businesses are operated across the country, representing a US$2.5 billion industry, Polaris says. The spa workers are often mothers who come from poor, rural parts of China, according to Polaris.
They are enticed by labour agencies selling the idea that they can work as a legitimate masseuse and send money back to their families. Once they arrive, they are entirely dependent on their employer.
Many of the parlours are registered and operated by an employee who serves as a “front,” making it difficult if not impossible to trace the ultimate owner or hold those who benefit financially accountable.
20 years in the Federal can for this pedophile.
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/ex-las-vegas-headliner-gets-20-years-federal-012436795.html
LAS VEGAS (AP) — A former Las Vegas illusion show headliner from Germany appeared to faint Thursday while being sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined more than $500,000 in a federal child pornography case.
Jan Rouven Fuechtener, 40, stiffened and fell backward over his chair after Chief U.S. District Judge Gloria Navarro rejected his apology and his attempt to say he derived no gratification from thousands of pornographic videos and images the FBI found in password-protected files on nine computers at a home dubbed the “fun house.”
Fuechtener recovered after a sip of water, without medical assistance. His attorneys, Russell Marsh and Sunethra Muralidhara, said later it wasn’t clear if he ever lost consciousness.
The judge branded Fuechtener a shameless liar and manipulator who dragged out his court proceedings “like a soap opera” and only regretted he got caught. She ordered Fuechtener to pay an additional $70,000 in restitution to victims identified in the videos.
“This is not acceptable, here or in Germany or anywhere,” the judge said, describing the videos as “not just children having sex, but sadistic violent acts.”
Earlier, prosecutor Elham Roohani sobbed as she recounted the “heart-wrenching screams” and “whimpers” of children forced into sex with adults on files she viewed preparing the criminal case.