DHS Open Source Enterprise
21 October 2011
USA:
• Lewisville Basketball Coach Facing Child-Trafficking Charge [Texas]: A Lewisville basketball coach is facing a child trafficking charge. Theodore James Berry, II, was arrested by Lewisville police after bringing a minor from Mexico on the promise to play basketball for a local select team. … The boy's family, according to a police affidavit, paid Berry $300 a month so he could live with Berry and attend Lewisville High School. The boy arrived in North Texas on Aug. 22, police said, but instead of playing basketball he was ordered to sell popcorn to raise funds. Over the next few weeks, police said, the boy was dropped off in Richardson, Lewisville, Plano and McAllen and told to sell popcorn. When he refused, police said, Berry threatened him. On Sept. 17 the boy called his parents in Mexico and told them he was being forced to sell popcorn and not allowed to play basketball. … Berry was arrested by Lewisville police on Sept. 28 and released on Oct. 2 after posting bond. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 20 October 2011; Source: http://www.dallasnews.com/incoming/20111020-lewisville-basketball-coach-facing-child-trafficking-
charge.ece]
• 4 Arrested For Human Smuggling [Arizona]: Four people were arrested and three vehicles seized Tuesday near Douglas after they tried to smuggle 13 illegal immigrants into the United States, U.S. Customs and Border Protection said. Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents tried to stop three vehicles traveling north on S.R. 191 on Tuesday. Two of the vehicles fled, but the third stopped and 13 people bailed out of the car and fled into the desert. With the help of a Border Protection Office of Air and Marine helicopter, agents were able to apprehend the 13. Agents later tracked down another of the vehicles and arrested its three occupants. The driver of the remaining vehicle was caught trying to cross into Mexico at the Douglas Port of Entry and was arrested. The four, all Mexican nationals, face federal human smuggling charges. [HSEC- 3.10; Date: 19 October 2011; Source: http://www.tucsonsentinel.com/local/report/101911_borderpatrol_human_smuggling/4-arrested-human-
smuggling/]
• Longview Couple Sentenced In Human Trafficking Case [Washington]: A Micronesian couple has been sentenced in a human trafficking case in which they held an 18-year-old woman from their homeland as a virtual prisoner in their Longview home while forcing her to be their servant. Edk Kenit, 29, was sentenced Wednesday to three years and three months in federal prison. Kenit's girlfriend, Choimina Lukas, 31, was sentenced to 20 months in prison. … The couple admitted to recruiting a woman identified only as "S.S" … to America with the promise of education and travel. Once S.S. arrived … the couple seized her passport. S.S. was made to provide full-time childcare, cooking and cleaning service for the couple without pay. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 19 October 2011; Source:
http://tdn.com/news/local/article_d41d8986-fabc-11e0-b0b0-001cc4c002e0.html]
• Kansas City Woman Pleads Guilty To Coerced Sex Trafficking Of A Child [Missouri]: Beth Phillips, United States Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced that a Kansas City, Mo ., woman pleaded guilty in federal court today to selling a child victim into prostitution. ... By pleading guilty today, Key admitted that she operated a prostitution ring that assisted and profited from the coerced sex trafficking of achild. Co-defendant Eric Gathings, also known as "Pulu," 37, of Columbia, Mo., pleaded guilty on October 12, 2011. Gathings admitted that in 2009 he recruited a homeless minor to engage in prostitution for his financial benefit. Gathings provided housing for the minor victim, but took her earnings after requiring that she sell herself for sex. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 19 October 2011; Source:http://7thspace.com/headlines/397390/kansas_city_woman_pleads_guilty_to_coerced_sex_trafficking_of_a
_child.html]
INTERNATIONAL:
• Suspect Sought By Ottawa Police In Human Trafficking Ring Nabbed In Montreal [Canada]: The suspected leader of a human trafficking ring was arrested in Montreal on Wednesday when he made a court appearance on an unrelated matter. Jamie Byron had been sought by Ottawa police on charges of keeping a common bawdy house, living off the avails of juvenile prostitution, exercising control over a person for prostitution and trafficking a person under 18 years old. The charges relate to a 17-year-old Windsor girl who was recruited in Ottawa for prostitution. It's alleged the girl was kept at a downtown Ottawa hotel and starved until she agreed to work as a prostitute, sources say. Police say they have identified only one victim, but are looking for others. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 20 October 2011; Source:http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Suspect+sought+Ottawa+police+nabbed+Montreal/5582286/story.ht
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• Some Parents Found To Traffic Own Babies in China: Parents in China have been discovered to be trafficking in their own offspring, selling their babies to agents who then find new families for them, according to recent reports in the Chinese press. Thousands of dollars change hands in the deals, though it does not always turn out well for the children being traded: after being sold, some die as a result of poor feeding or transport conditions, while others are intentionally disabled and made street beggars to bring in money. Expectant mothers in Butuo County in southern Sichuan Province took the initiative to contact an intermediary of a baby trafficking ring, according to a Qilu Evening News report on Oct.18. The traffickers took the women to Zhoucheng in Shandong Province; after birth the babies were examined and, if healthy, deals were cut on the spot. Boys fetched around $7,840 while girls were sold at $4,704, with the baby broker taking a hefty commission, Qilu Evening News reported. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 20 October 2011;
Source: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/china-news/some-parents-found-to-traffic-own-babies-in-china- 63060.html]
• Owner Of Maid Agency Claims Trial To Human Trafficking [Indonesia]: A local maid agency owner accused of trafficking in an Indonesian woman claimed trial in the Sessions Court here yesterday. Then Fook Khian, a local man, pleaded not guilty before judge Dayang Ellyn Narissa Abang Ahmad who fixed the trial for Jan 11 to 13 next year. … This was the third charge for human trafficking against Then. Previously, Then and his two sons, Robin Then Boon Leng, 21, and Then Boon Fui, 39, were jointly charged in another Sessions Court for trafficking in two Indonesian women (two counts). … They allegedly committed the crime in a house at Jalan Maxwell on Feb 12 and June 14 this year. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 20 October 2011; Source: http://www.theborneopost.com/2011/10/20/owner-of-maid-agency-claims-trial-to-human-trafficking/]
• Scandal Of Trafficked Women Held In UK [United Kingdom]: Almost 200 women are being unlawfully detained in immigration centers after being trafficked into Britain. … The women were brought to Britain on false passports by organized criminal gangs who forced them into prostitution, labor or street-begging, leading charity Poppy Project said. The women escaped imprisonment but were later arrested by police for immigration offences. The charity today released the figures and called on the Government to stop detaining women trafficked from abroad. Poppy Project director Abigail Stepnitz said: "Imprisoning vulnerable victims in detention centers is a scandal. The trafficking gangs took their freedom away but forced them to suffer unimaginable hardships. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 20 October 2011; Source: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24000476-scandal-of-trafficked-women-held-in-uk.do]
• Victims Of Child Trafficking Disappear From Council Care [United Kingdom]: Child trafficking through Dover has come under the spotlight after new figures revealed 25 children have gone missing while under the care of the council. Between April 1 and August 31 this year, 25 young people, aged between 12 and 17, disappeared from care after being brought illegally through Kent's channel ports. That is almost a quarter of the number of foreign youngsters who have been brought into the county for exploitation and placed either in a home or with foster parents. [HSEC-3.10; Date: 19 October 2011; Source: http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kentonline/news/2011/october/20/victims_of_child_trafficking.aspx]
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