Federal Court: Sex Trafficking

sex trafficking: A criminal complaint charges 13 people with smuggling dozens of women into the United States and forcing them into prostitution. Some of the defendants were to appear Wednesday in federal court in Manhattan to face multiple counts including sex trafficking and interstate transportation for prostitution, according to Huffington Post. The investigation was among several aimed at "blockading the repugnant sex trafficking corridor'' used to exploit victims from Tenancingo, Mexico, said James Hayes, head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in New York and NEW YORK -- U.S. authorities say young Mexican women were driven to rural New Jersey and forced to have sex with 25 farmworkers a day or were confined to dingy brothels in the New York City area, being paid very little or nothing at all. The ring "lured their unsuspecting victims to the United States and then consigned them to a living hell,'' U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.