Tuesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee holds a hearing on combating forced labor and modern-day slavery. On June 20, the State Department released its annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, documenting the progress of countries around the world in combating human trafficking. The enormous scope of the report underscores the …
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BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – Craig Ross Jr., the 46-year-old New York man accused of abducting a nine-year-old girl from her bicycle and holding her for ransom, is now accused of raping the child while he kept her captive in a camper behind his mom’s double-wide trailer. A Saratoga County court …
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A Maryland principal engaged in sexual misconduct and bullying and violated sexual harassment policies, according to a months-long investigation from the Montgomery County Office of the Inspector General. The investigation determined that Montgomery County Public Schools’ Joel Beidleman committed misconduct during his tenure as principal of Farquhar Middle School in …
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A federal court in New York has unsealed another batch of documents expected to name associates of Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and child sex trafficker who died in prison in 2019. The new release includes a deposition of Tony Figueroa, a driver for Epstein and Maxwell and former boyfriend …
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An internal Meta document sheds light on how the company is training its AI chatbot to handle one of the most sensitive issues online: child sexual exploitation. The newly unearthed guidelines detail what’s permitted and what’s strictly forbidden, offering a rare look into how Meta is shaping its AI behavior …
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A substitute teacher in Kentucky was arrested earlier this month after allegedly exposing herself during a video chat with an underage student as part of a plan to meet for sex, authorities said. Krystal Sims, 30, of Cave City, was arrested on Oct. 2 after the Barren County Sheriff’s Office …
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A Chinese national who has been studying in the United States has been charged with drugging and sexually assaulting several women over a three-year span, prosecutors said Wednesday. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced felony charges against Sizhe “Steven” Weng, 30, a Chinese national pursuing a doctorate at …
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A 23-year-old Florida man with a violent criminal record spent two months on the run before his capture on charges of rape and attempted murder, then walked out of jail after less than two days on a $9,500 bond. According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, Jacoby Tillman attacked a …
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In her posthumous memoir, Virginia Giuffre recounts being groomed as a teenager and sexually exploited by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell — writing that the abuse included rape by an unnamed prime minister and encounters with powerful men such as former President Bill Clinton and President Donald Trump. The book, …
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the sex-trafficking accomplice and former lover of Jeffrey Epstein, is getting “unusually favorable treatment” after arriving at a “Club Fed” prison in Texas, according to a new report. Resentful fellow prisoners have complained of changes to the Federal Prison Camp Bryan’s security measures and occasional special privileges granted …
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