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Maxwell, 60, could be sentenced to up to 55 years in prison — the most concrete punishment yet for the sex-trafficking conspiracy she operated with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.
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Earlier this month, the judge refused to toss out her conviction after a juror disclosed during deliberations that he had been sexually abused as a child.
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Spooked by reports that traffickers are waiting at the Ukraine-Poland border, a Polish woman started an all-women car service to drive Ukrainian refugee women and children to homes or shelters.
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Brunel, a modeling agent, was being held in an investigation into the rape of minors and trafficking of minors for sexual exploitation, according to the Paris prosecutor's office.
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The Coast Guard said the missing appear to have been part of a "suspected human smuggling venture" that took off from Bimini, a small island in the Bahamas roughly 55 miles east of Miami.
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NPR's Rachel Martin talks to Maggy Krell, an ex-California state prosecutor, about her book, Taking Down Backpage: Fighting The World's Largest Sex Trafficker.
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The settlement between Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Giuffre, one of his accusers, is emerging less than a week after his longtime partner Ghislaine Maxwell was found guilty of sex trafficking a minor.
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The British socialite was accused of procuring underage girls for financier Jeffrey Epstein to sexually abuse. After six days of deliberation, a federal jury found her guilty on five of six counts.
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Dr. Corinne Schwarz's research is broadly based on how gender violence and justice operate in society. More specifically, it looks at anti-trafficking service provisions.
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Seventeen missionaries were kidnapped by an armed gang in Haiti on Saturday. It was the latest in what experts are calling a kidnapping crisis in the country — a crisis largely driven by one gang.