Latest Human trafficking News

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyer tell appeals judges that Jeffrey Epstein's Florida plea deal protects her

Mar. 12, 2024 19:35 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) — Imprisoned British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyer asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to toss out her sex trafficking conviction and 20-year prison sentence, saying Jeffrey Epstein’s 2007 non-prosecution deal with a U.S. attorney in Florida should have prevented her...

Katie Britt used decades-old example of rapes in Mexico as Republican attack on Biden border policy

Mar. 10, 2024 20:46 PM EDT

The Republican senator who gave the party’s response to President Joe Biden's State of the Union address used a harrowing account of a young woman's sexual abuse to attack his border policies, but the rapes did not happen in the U.S. or during the Biden administration. First-term...

A girl went missing, seizing South Africa's attention. Now her mother is charged with selling her

Mar. 07, 2024 11:51 AM EST

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — The mother of a 6-year-old girl who has been missing in South Africa for nearly three weeks was arrested and charged Thursday with kidnapping and selling or trafficking her daughter, a shocking twist in a case that has seized the country's attention and sparked deep...

Meta attorneys ask judge to dismiss shareholder suit alleging failure to address human trafficking

Mar. 05, 2024 18:16 PM EST

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Meta Platforms and several of its current and former leaders, including founder Mark Zuckerberg, are asking a Delaware judge to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit alleging the company has deliberately failed to protect users of its social media platforms from...

Libya’s coast guard tried to prevent rescue of migrants in the Mediterranean, a German charity says

Mar. 03, 2024 05:06 AM EST

CAIRO (AP) — A German charity has accused the Libyan coast guard of threatening its crew members who were rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea, causing at least one migrant to drown. The German charity SOS Humanity, which operates the rescue ship Humanity 1, said the Libyan...

Indonesia and Australia hold defense talks as both nations move toward signing a security agreement

Feb. 23, 2024 09:48 AM EST

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia and Australia held high-level talks in Jakarta on Friday as the neighboring countries seek to strengthen security ties by signing a defense cooperation agreement in the coming months. Defense Minister Prabowo Subianto, who is set to become...

'Little dark secret': DEA agent on trial accused of taking $250K in bribes from Mafia

Feb. 22, 2024 11:20 AM EST

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The way prosecutors tell it, Joseph Bongiovanni went to work for years with a “little dark secret.” Behind the veneer of a veteran U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent, they alleged, was a turncoat on the take from the Buffalo Mafia, offering an...

Illegally adopted during Chile's dictatorship, they're now reuniting with biological families

Feb. 18, 2024 19:07 PM EST

SANTIAGO (AP) — Romina Cortés couldn't pronounce her sister’s last name. She didn’t know what she smells like, what her favorite food is, or what she likes to do in her free time. Cortés, 43, waited impatiently Sunday at the airport in Santiago, Chile, where she would soon...

Police in Georgia responding to gun shots at home detain 19 people, probe possible sex trafficking

Feb. 01, 2024 15:15 PM EST

SOUTH FULTON, Ga. (AP) — Police in an Atlanta-area city responding to shots fired at a home on Thursday found numerous women there and are investigating the possibility the residence was used for sex trafficking, authorities said. South Fulton police detained 19 people at the home,...

Andrew Tate loses his appeal to ease judicial restrictions as human trafficking case continues

Jan. 30, 2024 13:32 PM EST

A Romanian court on Tuesday rejected an appeal by influencer Andrew Tate to ease judicial control measures imposed while the legal case continues in which he is charged with human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The Bucharest Court of...