President Trump signed the FOSTA-SESTA anti-sex trafficking bill last Thursday, the same day Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge related to the shutdown of what Attorney General Jeff Sessions called “the dominant marketplace for illicit commercial sex.”
Backpage.com pleaded guilty to Texas human trafficking charges in a state district court on Thursday. The company’s CEO also pleaded guilty to money laundering.
Federal authorities have seized and shut down Backpage.com, a website that specialized in sex-related classified ads, and then charged several of the site’s owners with sex trafficking, reports say.
Authorities busted a mother and a daughter for running an unlicensed massage parlor in Florida that allegedly provided sexual favors to clients.
A North Texas woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in Dallas federal court over her alleged involvement in a prostitution ring that pimped out women and underage girls, according to authorities.
A north Texas man got life behind bars for pimping out two underage teen girls. He also physically abused and sexually assaulted them, say authorities.
An investigation in Waco, Texas, led to the discovery of a Chinese sex trafficking ring in that victimized 16 Chinese women.
A man accused of sex trafficking a Texas teenage girl has been arrested in the Dominican Republic after fleeing the Lone Star State to avoid prosecution. The man allegedly fled after an investigation by the Texas Office of the Attorney General’ (OAG) human trafficking unit and the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) led to an indictment against the man and a co-conspirator.
January is Human Trafficking Awareness Month and the Texas Attorney General is fighting the problem by educating people about the roles they can play in helping to spot and report the modern day slavery.
HOUSTON, Texas — A Houston man pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to sex trafficking a child by posting classified advertisements on Backpage.com.
A Texas woman has been charged with three counts of compelling prostitution and three counts for trafficking a child. Court documents say she pimped a 16-year-old girl by posting advertisements for escort services on Backpage.com.
The CEO of Backpage.com agreed to immediate extradition to California after his arrest in Houston on money laundering and pimping charges. Carl Ferrer was taken into custody on Friday after he arrived at a Houston airport on a flight from Amsterdam. He is now in a California jail.
HOUSTON, Texas — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton made the highest-profile human trafficking bust in the Lone Star State’s history on Thursday afternoon. Backpage.com is set to be shutdown as a result. Paxton said that the victims that are sex trafficked include both voluntary and involuntary participants. The head of the organization, Carl Ferrer, has been arrested at a Houston airport.
A Floridian man has been arrested after he allegedly used the dating app Plenty of Fish to lure teenagers to his motel room so he could then sell them for sex.
A Texas jury in Corpus Christi wasted no time in handing down a 40-year prison sentence following their conviction on Friday of a man who was sex trafficking a 15-year-old girl.
A Dallas, Texas, man now stands accused of luring a 15-year-old Louisiana girl into prostitution. The prostitution began after he raped the young girl, according to Dallas police.
Nearly fifty people were arrested in an online prostitution sting operation conducted in Waco, Texas, during the month of January. Snared in the trap were a teacher/coach and a semi-pro baseball umpire who was allegedly working as a driver/body guard for a prostitution and sex trafficking ring that was also busted in the operation.
A Texas man remains in the Bexar County Jail on charges of human trafficking of a child and sexual assault on a child for forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution.
With law enforcement going after online sex trafficking of minors with a vengeance, Bitcoin virtual currency is becoming the preferred coin of the realm for the sex industry. Police and the FBI have battled escort services for decades in an effort
A former Galveston County judge has been charged with posting online ads indicating an ex-girlfriend, and a woman who had spurned his advances, were available for sexual services for pay. The controversial ex-judge has been arrested on two counts of felony
A man from Houston, Texas, will spend the next fourteen years in prison for his role in sex trafficking underage girls. The minor females were forced into prostitution and were photographed.
Shocking information shows that for years now Backpage.com has been profiting from the exploitation of both women and children through their online classifieds system. But what is even more appalling is that, so far, the site has gone largely unpunished by law
DALLAS, Texas–The arrests of two suspected sex traffickers were made public at a press conference in El Paso at the Mexican border. One of the accused was a volunteer at a middle school for the Ysleta Independent School District (ISD). The
25-year-old Alexander Johnson will spend 128 months in prison for sex trafficking a minor, according to reports from the FBI. He pled guilty to sex trafficking and transportation of a minor in December 2013. An FBI press release stated that U.S. District Judge
20-year-old Amber Doak of San Antonio pled guilty in federal court on Wednesday to one count of sex trafficking a 15-year-old female in August 2013. According to a criminal complaint obtained by Breitbart Texas, filed on September 1, 2013, the victim met 38-year-old Marcus
