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Greg Russinger's Blog – February 2011 Archive (5)

Houston Texas, major Federal bust up

HOUSTON - A modern day international sex slavery ring has been broken up right under our noses. Since 1999, federal investigators say young Mexican women and girls have been smuggled into an east Houston compound, then forced to work as prostitutes.

Horrible acts are mentioned in the indictment returned this week and unsealed on Thursday. The feds allege the east Houston ring has been in operation for a dozen years, though Houston's Human Trafficking Rescue Alliance didn't begin…

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Added by Greg Russinger on February 18, 2011 at 10:45am — No Comments

Ethiopia: U.S. Adoption Agency Involved in Child Trafficking

A Minnesota-based adoption agency had its license to work in Ethiopia revoked by the government there, according to a letter posted this week on the U.S. State Department's website here.

The letter, dated December 8, 2010, says the agency Better Futures Adoption Services (BFAS), "has been involved in child trafficking." The letter is signed by the director…

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Added by Greg Russinger on February 11, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Ethiopia: U.S. Adoption Agency Involved in Child Trafficking

A Minnesota-based adoption agency had its license to work in Ethiopia revoked by the government there, according to a letter posted this week on the U.S. State Department's website here.

The letter, dated December 8, 2010, says the agency Better Futures Adoption Services (BFAS), "has been involved in child trafficking." The letter is signed by the director…

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Added by Greg Russinger on February 11, 2011 at 10:29am — No Comments

U.S. should stop criminalizing sex trafficking victims

(CNN) -- Americans are right to get angry at the violence against women and girls in developing nations: the Congo rape camps, the widespread practices of female genital mutilation in West Africa and the infanticide of females in China.

Our disgust at the violence committed against women and girls is heightened by the culture of impunity that allows the perpetrators of these crimes to go free without condemnation or punishment. That culture also turns victims into criminals,…

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Added by Greg Russinger on February 7, 2011 at 9:56am — No Comments