DHS Open Source Enterprise
Aug. 2011.
US: Teen Says She Was Forced Into Prostitution [Michigan]: A teenager described weeks of working as a prostitute, beaten and raped over and over, during a hearing for a Detroit man charged with sexual trafficking. The girl, now 15, testified that Sedrick Leman-Isaac Mitchell, 32, picked her up when she was a 14-year-old runaway, The Detroit News reported. Mitchell, also known by the street name "Gruesome," is the first person to face charges under Michigan's new human trafficking law and is also charged with rape and a long list of other crimes. "We had to come home with at least $200. If I didn't, he would beat me," the girl said. Investigators said Mitchell imprisoned the 14-year-old and a 15-year-old. He allegedly choked the older girl when she resisted having sex with him. The younger girl said she stood on a street corner in Detroit from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. She would service as many as six customers a night and was also forced to have sex with Mitchell, sometimes three times daily. Mitchell took all her earnings, she said…. The hearing is scheduled to resume Sept. 8 with another alleged victim testifying. [HSEC-3.8; Date: 19 August 2011;
Source: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2011/08/19/Teen-says-she-was-forced-into-prostitution/UPI-
64121313786435/#ixzz1VlUDP1H7]
Hard To Put Numbers On Human Trafficking In Canada, Calgary Globalfest Panel Agrees:
"Sophisticated and savvy" criminals are using the lure of jobs in Alberta to entrap foreign workers in human trafficking schemes. While there are currently three charges of human trafficking in Alberta related to labour, Staff Sgt. Jim Gamlin with the RCMP said the size of the problem is difficult to pinpoint. … Gamlin said one active case in Alberta involves men who were brought to Canada from Poland with promises of work and education. He said the perpetrators stole the wages from the workers. "In the course of a year, there was close to a million dollars potentially garnished," he said. While each case is different, Gamlin said there are a few commonalities. Each case starts with a promise of a better life, he said, followed by transport to Canada and then a change of perspective that causes the victim to understand he or she will not get what they were promised. This is typically followed by verbal threats and more promises to keep the people here. [HSEC-3.8; Date: 20 August 2011;
Source: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Hard+numbers+human+trafficking+Canada+Calgary+GlobalFest+panel
+agrees/5281032/story.html#ixzz1VlVxN8Jf]
Police Nab 16 China Human Traffickers [Malaysia]: A China-based human trafficking syndicate that has been operating in Malaysia for the past two years was busted last Saturday with the arrest of 16 members. Federal police special task force (operations and counterterrorism) chief Datuk Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the members, aged between 22 and 45, were all Chinese nationals. He said 11 of them, high on the wanted list of human trafficking in China, were deported on Thursday. … Investigations showed that the syndicate had been operating in Malaysia and Thailand for two years. Fuzi said the syndicate was involved in smuggling Chinese nationals into Malaysia. He added that those wishing to use the syndicate's service would have to deposit money into its bank accounts in China, which would then be withdrawn from ATMs in Johor Baru and here. [HSEC-3.8; Date: 20 August 2011;
Source: http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Crime/Story/A1Story20110820-295299.html]
Report Highlights Sex Trafficking Problem [Ireland]: About 1,000 women are working as prostitutes in Ireland every day, an agency which supports those in the sex trade said. Ruhama said it worked with 204 women last year, up 4% on the previous year, while the number of new victims of trafficking it has been alerted to remained static. The group said there was a 9% increase in the number of women working the streets and seeking help. Sarah Benson, Ruhama chief executive, said it helped 80 women who claimed they had been trafficked to Ireland. "This truly exemplifies the global nature of prostitution and trafficking and reflects the complexity of a frontline response such as that offered by Ruhama," she said. … Ruhama helped 70 women working as street prostitutes through its outreach service. It described Ireland's sex trade as thriving. … Ruhama said that based on the location of women claiming they have been trafficked into Ireland the sex trade is not just a city issue but a feature of small rural parts of the country.
[HSEC-3.6; Date: 22 August 2011;
Source: http://www.examiner.ie/breakingnews/ireland/report-highlights-sex-
trafficking-problem-517423.html#ixzz1VlVKub5h]
Madagascar Maids: Misery In The Middle East [Lebanon, Madagascar]: Forced to work as a "slave maid" for wealthy families in Lebanon for 15 years, Abeline Baholiarisoa - a 59-year-old woman from Madagascar - finally achieved her freedom in March. … Ms. Baholiarisoa says she was trapped in "a living hell" after being duped into going to Lebanon. A recruiting agency had promised her a nursing job for three years, with a salary of $800 (£486) a month. … But her dream was shattered the minute she touched down in Beirut. "It was a trap, because as soon as I got there they took away my papers and said my contract didn't mean anything," Ms. Baholiarisoa says. … Madagascar's Minister of Population Nadine Ramaroson, the only government minister tackling the issue, says "a very organised network" involving senior government officials and businessmen emerged in the 1990s to engage in human trafficking. Government officials provide fraudulent work permits, travel and identity document for around $5,000 per trafficked
woman, social workers say. [HSEC-3.8; Date: 19 August 2011;
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-
africa-14507719]
DILG Lauds PCTC Rescue Of 58 Human Trafficking Victims [Philippines]: Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse M. Robredo lauded the agents of the Philippine Center for Transnational Crimes (PCTC) after rescuing 58 potential victims of human trafficking. According to Robredo, 41 of those rescued were women during separate operations in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay and in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi recently. Robredo said the illegal recruitment victims were promised non-existent jobs in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Jordan, Lebanon and Qatar by unknown facilitators. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 21 August 2011;
Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=50067]
Hard To Put Numbers On Human Trafficking In Canada, Calgary Globalfest Panel Agrees:
"Sophisticated and savvy" criminals are using the lure of jobs in Alberta to entrap foreign workers in human trafficking schemes. While there are currently three charges of human trafficking in Alberta related to labour, Staff Sgt. Jim Gamlin with the RCMP said the size of the problem is difficult to pinpoint. … Gamlin said one active case in Alberta involves men who were brought to Canada from Poland with promises of work and education. He said the perpetrators stole the wages from the workers. "In the course of a year, there was close to a million dollars potentially garnished," he said. While each case is different, Gamlin said there are a few commonalities. Each case starts with a promise of a better life, he said, followed by transport to Canada and then a change of perspective that causes the victim to understand he or she will not get what they were promised. This is typically followed by verbal threats and more promises to keep the people here. [HSEC-3.8; Date: 20 August 2011;
Source: http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Hard+numbers+human+trafficking+Canada+Calgary+GlobalFest+panel
+agrees/5281032/story.html#ixzz1VlVxN8Jf]
Police Nab 16 China Human Traffickers [Malaysia]: A China-based human trafficking syndicate that has been operating in Malaysia for the past two years was busted last Saturday with the arrest of 16 members. Federal police special task force (operations and counterterrorism) chief Datuk Mohamad Fuzi Harun said the members, aged between 22 and 45, were all Chinese nationals. He said 11 of them, high on the wanted list of human trafficking in China, were deported on Thursday. … Investigations showed that the syndicate had been operating in Malaysia and Thailand for two years. Fuzi said the syndicate was involved in smuggling Chinese nationals into Malaysia. He added that those wishing to use the syndicate's service would have to deposit money into its bank accounts in China, which would then be withdrawn from ATMs in Johor Baru and here. [HSEC-3.8; Date: 20 August 2011;
Source: http://news.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews/Crime/Story/A1Story20110820-295299.html]
Report Highlights Sex Trafficking Problem [Ireland]: About 1,000 women are working as prostitutes in Ireland every day, an agency which supports those in the sex trade said. Ruhama said it worked with 204 women last year, up 4% on the previous year, while the number of new victims of trafficking it has been alerted to remained static. The group said there was a 9% increase in the number of women working the streets and seeking help. Sarah Benson, Ruhama chief executive, said it helped 80 women who claimed they had been trafficked to Ireland. "This truly exemplifies the global nature of prostitution and trafficking and reflects the complexity of a frontline response such as that offered by Ruhama," she said. … Ruhama helped 70 women working as street prostitutes through its outreach service. It described Ireland's sex trade as thriving. … Ruhama said that based on the location of women claiming they have been trafficked into Ireland the sex trade is not just a city issue but a feature of small rural parts of the country. [HSEC-3.6; Date: 22 August 2011; Source: http://www.examiner.ie/breakingnews/ireland/report-highlights-sex-trafficking-problem-517423.html#ixzz1VlVKub5h]
Madagascar Maids: Misery In The Middle East [Lebanon, Madagascar]: Forced to work as a "slave maid" for wealthy families in Lebanon for 15 years, Abeline Baholiarisoa - a 59-year-old woman from Madagascar - finally achieved her freedom in March. … Ms. Baholiarisoa says she was trapped in "a living hell" after being duped into going to Lebanon. A recruiting agency had promised her a nursing job for three years, with a salary of $800 (£486) a month. … But her dream was shattered the minute she touched down in Beirut. "It was a trap, because as soon as I got there they took away my papers and said my contract didn't mean anything," Ms. Baholiarisoa says. … Madagascar's Minister of Population Nadine Ramaroson, the only government minister tackling the issue, says "a very organised network" involving senior government officials and businessmen emerged in the 1990s to engage in human trafficking. Government officials provide fraudulent work permits, travel and identity document for around $5,000 per trafficked
woman, social workers say. [HSEC-3.8; Date: 19 August 2011; Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-
africa-14507719]
DILG Lauds PCTC Rescue Of 58 Human Trafficking Victims [Philippines]: Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) Secretary Jesse M. Robredo lauded the agents of the Philippine Center for Transnational Crimes (PCTC) after rescuing 58 potential victims of human trafficking. According to Robredo, 41 of those rescued were women during separate operations in Ipil, Zamboanga Sibugay and in Bongao, Tawi-Tawi recently. Robredo said the illegal recruitment victims were promised non-existent jobs in Malaysia, Brunei, Singapore, Jordan, Lebanon and Qatar by unknown facilitators. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 21 August 2011; Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/?m=1&t=1&id=50067]
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