Human trafficking

Hundreds of sex slaves rescued in international trafficking ring bust

The trafficking ring targeted women who spoke little to no English and trapped them with debts as high as $60,000 and included plastic surgery that they were forced to undergo before they left to make them “more appealing” to potential buyers in the US.

The organization was able to procure fraudulent visas and travel documents in order to get them into the US. In the process of doing so, they also collected information on the victims’ families to use them as leverage against the women if they tried to resist.

The women were then taken to prostitution houses that had individual house bosses who advertised the women, handled the money, ran the house and controlled the women’s schedules with clients. The women turned over all of their earnings to the house boss who would transfer it back to the traffickers to pay down the trafficking debts and kept any remainders for themselves.