North Texas Man Who Forced Girl, 12, Into Prostitution Gets Prison
A North Texas man who forced a 12-year-old girl into prostitution must serve nearly 16 years in federal prison.
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A North Texas man who forced a 12-year-old girl into prostitution must serve nearly 16 years in federal prison.
Texas ranks second in the country for human trafficking
An east Waco man found guilty of harboring a 15-year-old runaway and charging men to have sex with her has been sentenced to 12 consecutive terms of life in prison.
Federal prosecutors say 19-year-old Luis Rivera of Irving pleaded guilty in October to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of children.
A developmentally disabled teenage girl was deprived of food and held against her will in a hotel room.
Two men are acing human trafficking charges after Dallas police say a 16-year-old girl they met online was raped and then sent to Alabama.
A gang member must serve 21 years in prison for forcing his 16-year-old girlfriend into prostitution.
While working to rescue sex trafficked girls and women, Dallas non-profit New Friends New Life has a doubly daunting task: they're also taking on the multi-billion dollar porn industry, calling it a 'gateway drug' for trafficking.
A Dallas man who pleaded guilty in February 2015 to sex trafficking a 17-year-old runaway was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison to be followed by five years of supervised release.
Authorities said that a Dallas man who brought a 16-year-old girl to New Orleans for prostitution was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison on Wednesday.
Collin County has nearly 3000 registered homeless children, and one out of every three street kids in the U.S. is likely to be approached by a trafficker within 48 hours of hitting the street.
Sold for sex – it's a crime happening behind more closed doors than you might think. And sex trafficking is becoming worse in Texas than almost anywhere else in the country.
Bold crimes are happening in plain sight, causing people to join together for the common goal of ending child sex trafficking in Collin County.
Prosecutors said that a Dallas gang member has been sentenced to nearly 22 years in federal prison for forcing a runaway 14-year-old girl into prostitution.
A joint operation involving 19 North Texas law enforcement agencies recovered five juveniles during an enforcement action focusing on commercial child sex trafficking.
A new study has found that the market for illicit sex is a $99 million-a-year industry in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
A man from Fort Worth has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution and advertising her online for sex.
A woman has been sentenced to six years in federal prison for forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution and advertising her services online in a North Texas sex trafficking case.
It took a Fort Worth jury just 19 minutes to convict an ex-con of raping a 12-year-old girl and then trying to sell her for sex.
A man charged with forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution and advertising her services online has pleaded guilty in a North Texas sex trafficking case.
Two North Texas men have been sentenced to 15-year federal prison terms for sex trafficking of teenagers.
There is new information today about the 17-year-old Irving boy accused of forcing a female classmate into prostitution. Travis Lekas remains in the Dallas County Jail. The Irving Nimitz High School student faces several charges -- including one count of compelling prostitution.
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If a bill proposed by U.S. Senator John Cornyn passes, the federal government could soon be reaching out a hand to the victims of human trafficking.
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