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News Articles: Sex Trafficking

Motel 6 Hinesville, Nov. 12, 2024. Credit: Robin Kemp/The Current GA

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  • News

2 Hinesville hotel companies named in federal sex trafficking suits

Hotel owners say they had no knowledge of teens allegedly trapped and sold for sex on their respective businesses' premises.

November 18, 2024
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By:
  • Robin Kemp and
  • The Current
Homeland Security officials on Monday conducted coordinated raids of two homes connected to music mogul and entrepreneur Sean "Diddy" Combs. He has recently become the subject of lawsuits alleging sexual assault.

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  • Music

Homes linked to Sean 'Diddy' Combs raided by law enforcement

Homeland Security officials said the raids are part of an ongoing investigation with law enforcement in New York, Miami and Los Angeles.

March 26, 2024
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Former Presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump were friendly with and traveled with Jeffrey Epstein during years when he allegedly victimized women. Both say they had no knowledge of Epstein's behavior. One alleged victim says Epstein's powerful acquaintances "had to be blind" not to know.

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  • National

Epstein papers leave questions about what powerful men knew about his crimes

Documents released by a federal court don't have any smoking guns or stunning revelations. They do include claims that people in Epstein's world "would have to be blind" not to know about his crimes.

January 13, 2024
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By:
  • Brian Mann
Senator Jon Ossoff

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  • News

'An urgent issue': Hundreds of Georgia foster kids may have been sex trafficked, report says

A new report shows that hundreds of children have likely been sex trafficked while in Georgia’s foster care system.

 

November 07, 2023
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By:
  • Sarah Kallis
Jeffrey Epstein, pictured in 2017, was  a client of Deutsche Bank from 2013 to 2018 — well after he was convicted as a sex offender.

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  • Law

Deutsche Bank settles lawsuit with Epstein accusers for $75 million

Lawyers for the unnamed woman who filed the proposed class action lawsuit called it "the culmination of two law firms conducting more than a decade-long investigation."

May 18, 2023
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Romanian officials are backdropped by a luxury vehicle that was seized in a case against media influencer Andrew Tate on Saturday.

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  • Arts & Life

Andrew Tate's cars and watches, worth $4 million, are confiscated by Romanian police

Romanian authorities hauled away a $3.9 million trove of luxury cars, watches and cash as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation looking into the self-styled male dominance influencer.

January 17, 2023
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By:
  • Emily Olson
Pieper Lewis speaks Sept. 13 at a sentencing hearing in Des Moines, Iowa.

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  • National

An Iowa teen convicted of killing her rapist escapes from a probation center

Pieper Lewis, who was a 15-year-old sex trafficking victim at the time she stabbed her abuser, could face 20 years in prison if her sentence is reimposed.

November 07, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Pieper Lewis, left, speaks with Polk County District Judge David M. Porter during her sentencing hearing on Sept. 13. Donations are pouring in to help Lewis, a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim who was ordered by the court to pay $150,000 to the family of a man she stabbed to death after he raped her.

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  • National

A teen ordered to pay $150,000 to the family of her rapist is flooded with donations

A GoFundMe account set up by Pieper Lewis' former math teacher has surpassed the amount of the court-ordered restitution — and people are still giving.

September 16, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
Britain's Prince Andrew appears at the Royal Chapel at Windsor following the death announcement of his father Prince Philip in April 2021.

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  • Law

Prince Andrew again seeks dismissal of sexual abuse suit, demands a trial if it's not

Among Andrew's grounds for dismissal is that if any sexual activity did occur between the prince and Virginia Giuffre, it was consensual.

January 26, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
In this courtroom sketch, Ghislaine Maxwell looks over her shoulder to the courtroom audience prior to the start of jury selection in her trial on Nov. 16, 2021 in New York. Prospective jurors got their first glimpse of Maxwell, the British socialite charged with helping Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse girls and women, when a judge began questioning them.

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  • Law

Ghislaine Maxwell jury selection begins for her trial on sex-trafficking charges

One of the most intriguing elements of the trial is the role to be played by what prosecutors say is Maxwell's book of contacts.

November 16, 2021
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
This undated photo provided by the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office, in Georgia, shows a person of interest in a massage parlor shooting. Several people were killed and others injured at a massage parlor in Cherokee County, Tuesday, March 16, 2021, officials said. Shootings at other massage parlors in Atlanta also occurred.

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  • News

Police: Suspect Charged In Massage Parlor Deaths Planned To Kill More

Robert Aaron Long, 21, of Woodstock told officials he had "a temptation for him that he wanted to eliminate," Capt. Jay Baker with the Cherokee County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday.

March 17, 2021
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By:
  • Ellen Eldridge
Businessman Peter Nygard arrives at Norby Walters' 26th Annual Night Of 100 Stars Oscar Viewing at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on February 28, 2016 in Beverly Hills, California.

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  • Law

Former Fashion Executive Peter Nygard Charged With Sex Trafficking

Nygard, the former CEO of the Canada-based Nygard International, was arrested in Winnipeg on Monday on a U.S request for extradition.

December 17, 2020
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By:
  • Suzanne Nuyen
Keith Raniere was sentenced on Tuesday to 120 years in prison for his role as ringleader of the NXIVM cult, where he sexually abused several young women. In this June 2019 courtroom artist's sketch, Raniere, center, sits with his attorneys during closing arguments at federal court in Brooklyn, N.Y.

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  • Law

NXIVM Cult Leader Sentenced To 120 Years In Prison

Keith Raniere, 60, was convicted last year of sex trafficking, human trafficking and racketeering for his role as the head of the cult. "He robbed me of my youth,'' a victim reportedly told the court.

October 27, 2020
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By:
  • Matthew S. Schwartz
In August. the U.S. Marshals Service led a two-week operation in the Atlanta metro area and Macon to find missing children.

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  • Law

Georgia Today: Operation Not Forgotten — Separating Fact From Fiction

A series of raids across metro Atlanta and Macon stoked fears that child sex trafficking is more prevalent than we thought. Johnny Edwards, an investigative reporter with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, describes how the operation perpetuated a narrative of sex trafficking that doesn’t always square with the evidence.

October 22, 2020
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By:
  • Steve Fennessy and
  • Pria Mahadevan
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, shown here in 2005, allegedly ran a sex-trafficking operation together. in a 2016 deposition, Maxwell repeatedly denied "recruiting" girls for Epstein or taking part in orgies and other activities.

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  • National

Jeffrey Epstein Update: Read The Deposition That Ghislaine Maxwell Fought To Hide

Ghislaine Maxwell's answers to questions about the sex-trafficking operation she allegedly ran with the late Jeffrey Epstein are now being made public.

October 22, 2020
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
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