human trafficking

The mother of the 13-year-old girl kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man in North Carolina tracked her daughter’s online activity.

A man is facing a number of felony charges after a 13-year-old girl reported missing in Dallas two weeks ago was rescued from a locked outbuilding at his North Carolina residence.

State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle announced Thursday the arrest and extradition of an alleged human trafficker that fled to another state after the Florida Highway Patrol, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the State Attorney’s Human Trafficking Task Force intervened to rescue the victim. “The sad reality is that a modern-day form of slavery does exist as human trafficking —…

A former Mexican soccer star, Club Tijuana’s top goal scorer of all time, was arrested for alleged human trafficking Sunday trying to cross the border into the U.S.  

Farah revealed this week that he was taken to Britain illegally as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant has given a face to the often nameless victims of modern slavery, crime victims who many times are dismissed as “illegal” immigrants.

The people, believed to be part of a migrant smuggling operation, were found dead in San Antonio.

Seven members and associates of the MS-13 street gang have been convicted of sex trafficking in federal court after taking in a 13-year-old runaway and coercing her into commercial sex acts in Maryland and Virginia. The seven defendants all face a mandatory minimum sentences of 15 years. The U.S. Attorney’s Officer for the Eastern District of Virginia, which prosecuted the...

Montgomery County police say they’ve taken a predator off the streets, arresting a man accused of exploiting a local woman. News4’s Cory Smith explains how detectives tracked him down.

At least 31 migrants bound for Britain died when their boat sank in the English Channel, in what France’s interior minister called the biggest tragedy involving migrants on the dangerous crossing to date

The Italian Coast Guard has rescued more than 550 migrants, many of them young men and boys from Egypt, from traffickers boats in storm-tossed waters off the southern “toe” of Italy’s mainland

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty Monday on all counts in a high-profile sex-trafficking case by a federal jury in Brooklyn.