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<p>PHOENIX (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be convicted in what authorities say was a scheme to orchestrate sexual acts involving children.</p>

A suspected member of the notorious MS-13 street gang is accused of sex trafficking a 17-year-old migrant girl he recruited out of a Queens shelter — while still on the lam for allegedly fondling a 9-year-old girl years earlier. Alfredo Morocho, 37, who was also hit with a bail jumping charge for skipping out on the 2018 child molestation case, is finally being held on Rikers Island without bail, according to officials and court records. He is now charged with two counts of sex trafficking of a child, five counts of promoting prostitution and two counts of patronizing a person...

LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. — A German man is charged with having sex with a minor in Lancaster County. Police said Erik Weidling, 20, traveled to East Donegal Township from Germany to have sex with a 15-year-old girl multiple times between Feb. 29 and March 8. A criminal complaint alleges that Weidling knew the girl's age. Police said he was aware of her school schedule and her mother's work schedule, and he would come to the victim's home after her mother went to work. Weidling is facing charges that include involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault and unlawful contact with...

Actor Robert De Niro suffered another unhinged meltdown while trashing former President Donald Trump on Jimmy Kimmel this week. While discussing his recent Oscar nomination for Killers of the Flower Moon, De Niro pivoted to calling Trump a “malignant narcissist” and “socio-psychopath.”

Tim Tebow, a former NFL quarterback, spoke before Congress on the subject of human trafficking as well as strategies to stop the rise of child exploitation. On Wednesday, Tebow visited Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where he proposed legislation, “to enhance the capability to identify and locate the more than 50,000 unidentified children who are being abused, raped and tortured.” “To sum it up, we strive to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves,” Tebow said. The former NFL star emphasized that there needed to be more precautions enacted in order to inhibit the online distribution of child sexual...

Alex Jones breaks down how billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking ring was just the tip of the iceberg compared to the sex trafficking operation facilitated by Joe Biden’s open border policies.

Jimmie Gardner, a youth motivational speaker and the brother-in-law of twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, has been arrested on charges of human trafficking. Gardner, 57, was taken into custody by Tampa Police after a 16-year-old victim reported that she had been coerced into sexual acts and physically assaulted by Gardner at the Renaissance Hotel at International Plaza. The Tampa Police Department detailed the arrest in a recent press release, stating that the incident occurred in the early hours of November 17, 2023. According to the victim’s account, Gardner invited her to his hotel room and offered her money for...

Now, the question came from someone in the audience named Chanel—Chanel identified as a “sex work activist” who labors at the “intersection of migrants, justice, capitalism, and sex work.” Listen to what Chanel had to say below: Tweet #1 by Karlyn Borysenko: Are Socialists groomers? Well, they sure seem to want kids to be sex workers. In this clip from my undercover work at the Socialism Conference, you'll hear one socialist discuss how to protect the rights of children to engage in sex work. This is from the Q&A: https://twitter.com/DrKarlynB/status/1699446008730550444Tweet #2 by Karlyn Borysenko: One of the people on the...

Child sex trafficking is said to be the world’s fastest growing criminal enterprise, with an estimated two million child victims being abducted and sold into sexual bondage annually. The true numbers may be even higher; the dark world in which child traffickers operate does not lend itself to easy quantification. And despite occasional acknowledgment of this massive crisis by the United Nations, the U.S. State Department, and the FBI, relatively little has been done to bring the trafficking kingpins to justice or to break up the trafficking networks.According to a 2012 UNICEF report, around 30 million children were trafficked globally...

Tim Ballard, the former Homeland Security agent whose experience rescuing child sex trafficking victims inspired the film "Sound of Freedom," accused the U.S. government of helping to facilitate cartel-led child trafficking rings in the United States by releasing young migrants who crossed the southern border into their care. "It is shameful that I have to say this, but I spent 12 years working for the U.S. government to rescue children. Now, thanks to these policies, I have to rescue children from the U.S. Government," Ballard said Tuesday on "The Story." "This is dangerous," he warned. "This is a crisis." Moments...

A California bill that would make child sex trafficking a serious felony is one step away from Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk. Senate Bill 14, authored by Sen. Shannon Grove, R-Bakersfield, passed the state Assembly with a 79-0 vote and now heads back to the state Senate in order for that house to approve a change made to the bill two weeks ago. The Assembly-approved bill includes an amendment that lawmakers say ensures human trafficking victims, who can sometimes be forced to help traffickers, are not prosecuted under the proposed law. "We are one step closer to making the horrific crime...

The United States is the largest trafficker of children in the world. Children that are illegally kidnapped and brought across the US Mexico border are then sold off to wealthy Americans… used as sex slaves and worse… if you can imagine anything worse… it’s happening and the corporate media is too scared to touch the story. A Whistleblower who worked at one of these facilities has come forward to expose all of this… Carlos Arellano Former US immigration contractor and he joins us now.

There are two types of organ harvesting: voluntary & involuntary. Voluntary occurs among young men and women in middle east countries whose poverty is so immense selling an organ is aligned with quick cash and food on the table. And then there is ‘involuntary’ which is Big Business throughout Europe, the US and China. Ukraine, in its massive corruptness became a hub with the US Navy kindly building two seaports for drug and human trafficking.The media loudly asserts otherwise, but the facts have been available and produced countless times over decades. Why do governments pretend it doesn’t exist? Because the...

According to most western media, to say there is a vast global network of pedophiles and perverts who traffic children is akin to believing in some Q-minded conspiracy. Apparently, with headlines that appeared on AOL News today, the conspiracy is not a theory.

The criminal practice of trafficking and abusing hundreds of thousands of migrant children who cross the southern border is now, thanks to the open-border policy of the Biden Administration, apparently "normal" inside the US:"According to Customs and Border Protection, since January 2021 when Biden took the oath of office, there have been 5,118,661 encounters with illegal immigrants along the southern border."These numbers do not include reports that "at least 1.2 million illegal immigrants," or "gotaways," who "were confirmed to have unlawfully crossed the U.S.-Mexico border.""The actual number of illegal immigrants... [is] unknown. It could be double the number of known...

Over a dozen men have been charged with sex crimes in Australia following an American FBI investigation that proved fatal for two agents. Officials announced Tuesday that 19 men had been arrested and charged with a combined 138 offenses in connection to an international pedophile ring. "We will allege that these men were members of a technologically sophisticated online child abuse network that was operating across the country," Australian Federal Police Commander Helen Schneider told news outlets. Two of the suspects have already been convicted and sentenced, according to authorities. Those convicted are set to serve approximately 15 years in...

Ukraine remains one of Europe’s most notorious sources of human trafficking. Since 1991, over 160,000 men, women, and children have been exploited for labor, sex, forced begging, and organ removal, according to a mid-2015 report from the International Organization for Migration (IOM).Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy, with recommendations from domestic and international nongovernmental organizations, is currently in the final stages of updating the country’s five-year action plan on combating human trafficking.

ormer President Donald Trump on Wednesday night hosted a screening of the film "Sound of Freedom" at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, one day after the revelation that special counsel Jack Smith has informed Trump he is a target of the federal investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump has regularly kept up his campaign schedule despite mounting legal problems, including two indictments to which he has pleaded not guilty. He has also denied wrongdoing related to the 2020 election. Wednesday's event has a specific purpose, according to his campaign: to burnish both his record...

The going rate for a child – either to be sold into sexual slavery or killed and harvested for organs – is around $150,000.To those who value greed over the most fundamental of basic decencies, the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the refugee crisis it has sparked is not a humanitarian catastrophe but the business opportunity of a lifetime.“This is just a sweet shop for them at the moment,” says Dean, a former British soldier who now works for MitMark, a private risk advisory company that ‘fell into’ trying to combat human trafficking after arriving near the Medyka crossing in...

The Department of Justice quietly removed significant portions of its page on child sex trafficking, including information on "International Sex Trafficking of Minors," "Domestic Sex Trafficking of Minors," and "Child Victims of Prostitution." While it is unclear what prompted the revisions, conservatives pointed to the changes as a sign the Biden administration is not taking crimes surrounding child exploitation seriously.