Category Archive for : ‘HUMAN TRAFFICKING’

Newport News police officers will be teaching high school students signs to help them avoid and prevent human trafficking.

Hampton Roads was one of two sites across the country selected to pilot the federal program, which is being called TraffickSTOP.

The program has two parts: Training law enforcement officers to teach the program to students, and educating teenagers on the dangers of human trafficking and how to avoid it, according to a news release from Virginia’s Attorney General’s Office. Newport News school resource officers will lead the program in partnership with the

TOM HAYS

August 23, 2021

AP NEWS

NEW YORK (AP) — Another accuser took the witness stand on Monday at R. Kelly’s sex-trafficking trial, testifying that the R&B superstar sexually abused her on his tour bus and in hotel rooms when she was still a high school student and an aspiring singer.

The woman, identified only as “Jane Doe,” said Kelly once beat her with a shoe and wept when she also claimed that she contracted herpes after having sex with him. She said he hadn’t disclosed he had a sexually transmitted disease.

“This man

May 20, 2021
Trish Choate
Times Record News

Anthony Ryan Patterson of Wichita Falls was arrested Thursday after he was indicted on six charges related to allegations of human trafficking and child sex crimes, an official said.
Patterson, 44, was arrested by the Wichita County Sheriff’s Department and was being held Friday in Wichita County Jail, according to online jail records.
A Wichita County grand jury handed down an indictment against Patterson Wednesday, according to an official.
A total bail of $400,000 is recommended for five charges against Patterson, according to online jail records.
Online jail records

May 14, 2021
Michael S. Schmidt
AJC

A former confidant of Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz admitted in court papers on Friday to an array of federal crimes — including sex trafficking of a minor — and agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department’s investigations, handing prosecutors a potential key witness as they decide whether to charge the lawmaker from Florida.
Joel Greenberg, who was the tax collector of Seminole County, outside Orlando, until he was indicted last year, did not implicate Gaetz by name in papers filed by prosecutors in U.S. District Court in

May 17, 2021
David Shortell, Jeremy Herb, Paula Reid, Devan Cole
CNN

Washington (CNN)Joel Greenberg, a former Florida tax collector and close confidant of Florida Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz, formally pleaded guilty on Monday morning to six federal charges in a court hearing, admitting to a federal judge that he had knowingly solicited and paid a minor for sex.
Greenberg spoke sparingly throughout the 45-minute hearing and with a tone of dejection, responding “yes” and “I do” as the judge read the details of his plea agreement. He wore a dark jumpsuit and had

May 13, 2021
Ian Richardson, Stephen Gruber-Miller
Des Moines Register

A new Iowa law eliminates the statute of limitations to bring criminal charges for several sexual abuse-related crimes committed against minors.
“Today, Iowa stands in support of survivors of sexual violence as we become the 14th state to eliminate the statute of limitations for these heinous crimes,” Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds said in a statement after signing the bill Wednesday.
The new law, Senate File 562, covers crimes against children under 18, including sexual abuse, incest, sexual exploitation and human trafficking.
Previously, charges for those crimes