Category: National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month

Human Trafficking, Modern Slavery; A Booming Global Business

UNICEF reports “human trafficking, modern slavery” is the second largest criminal industry in the world, raking in over $32 billion a year. Hundreds of thousands are coming through the open U.S.-Mexico border. Children are abandoned, used as drug mules, and trafficked. In China, religious minorities are jailed and tortured, used as forced labor, and robbed…


Man Gets More Than 13 Years for Human Trafficking in Orange County

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 25-year-old man pleaded guilty Nov. 8 and was immediately sentenced to more than 13 years in prison for pimping in Orange County a 17-year-old Fresno girl he has known since middle school, according to court records. Angel Antonio Ortiz of Fresno pleaded guilty to single felony counts each of human trafficking of…