[ad_1] BAKERSFIELD — Over the course of two years, police across California investigated seemingly unrelated crimes and disappearances: teens from the Bay Area who’d allegedly been abused by their pimp and “branded” with tattoos. A woman from the Central Valley whose 3-month-old baby was kidnapped to force her into sexContinue Reading
[ad_1] February 9, 2021 – SAN DIEGO, CA – Jonathan Madison of San Diego pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday morning to sex trafficking of children, admitting that he knowingly recruited, advertised, and solicited teenage girls and women to engage in commercial sex acts. Madison also admitted that heContinue Reading
[ad_1] “Operation Reclaim and Rebuild” involved 100 federal, state and local law enforcement agents conducting a week-long effort that ended on Monday. At a Los Angeles news conference Thursday, authorities say they rescued 39 victims statewide, including 13 children. One of them was a 15-year-old girl who had been reportedContinue Reading
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES — A statewide operation to fight human trafficking in California led to 450 arrests and the rescue of dozens of victims, including 13 children, authorities announced Thursday. “Operation Reclaim and Rebuild” involved 100 federal, state and local law enforcement agents conducting a week-long effort that ended onContinue Reading
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES (AP) — A statewide operation to fight human trafficking in California led to 450 arrests and the rescue of dozens of victims, including 13 children, authorities announced Thursday. “Operation Reclaim and Rebuild” involved 100 federal, state and local law enforcement agents conducting a week-long effort that endedContinue Reading
[ad_1] A human-trafficking sting that was focused on online prostitution led to the arrests of 64 people, California authorities announced this week. The Riverside County Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force arrested 61 men and one female for solicitation of prostitution and two other men on other prostitution and solicitation charges JanuaryContinue Reading
[ad_1] BAKERSFIELD — Over the course of two years, police across California investigated seemingly unrelated crimes and disappearances: teens from the Bay Area who’d allegedly been abused by their pimp and “branded” with tattoos. A woman from the Central Valley whose 3-month-old baby was kidnapped to force her into sexContinue Reading
[ad_1] January 28, 2021 – FRESNO, Calif. – A federal grand jury has returned a one-count indictment against Jatinbhai Naresh Bhakta, 29, and Roy Gene Drees, 45, both of Bakersfield, charging them with use of facilities of interstate commerce in aid of a racketeering enterprise, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. ScottContinue Reading
[ad_1] By Carolyn Jones, EdSource After years of steadily rising numbers of homeless youth in California, schools saw a significant drop during the last school year in the official tally of homeless students — leading some advocates to warn that thousands of students may have gone uncounted during the pandemicContinue Reading
[ad_1] In summary California has evolved in how it treats victims of sex trafficking. But many victims, most of them Black women, are still sitting behind bars for crimes they committed while being trafficked. Sara Kruzan was in her cell when she received a fax that changed her life. AfterContinue Reading