Over the past week, law enforcement officials rescued 168 children sold into the sex trade and arrested 281 alleged pimps in an annual nationwide sweep, the FBI announced Monday.
Evocative Latino brothels, erotic Asian massage parlors, and the merchandising of the female body online and offline are the foundation of the underground commercial sex industry in D.C. and Atlanta; stimulating the local economy. Pun intended.
Atlanta, Dallas, Denver, Kansas City, Miami, San Diego, Seattle, Washington, D.C were examined by researchers, in an attempt to discover the extent of the "underground sex economy," which includes not only prostitution, but also sex trafficking of adults and children and child pornography.
Amrutlal Patel and Dakshaben Patel, Subway owners in Lexington, Kentucky, were indicted by the federal grand jury for knowingly harboring undocumented Indian nationals employed in their restaurants. The married couple was charged last month with four counts of harboring undocumented immigrants. In similar news, a Latino man by the name of Jose Gallegos was found guilty of transporting and harboring an undocumented immigrant earlier this month.
Colombian mother, Margarita de Jesus Zapata Moreno, proves that the selling and purchase of young girls’ virginity is still booming business, by selling the virginity of her twelve daughters for $200 -$300 per girl, once they reached 12-years-old.
