Sex Trafficking Victims Reveal Their Living Hell
Beaten, brainwashed and battered into submission, the women told their stories to the CBS11 I-Team.
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Beaten, brainwashed and battered into submission, the women told their stories to the CBS11 I-Team.
CBS11 was with the family of Jackie Hughes when they got word from Dallas Police that a body was found in a home on Castle Hills Drive around 5:00 p.m. Tuesday.
Two men are in federal custody Thursday on sex trafficking charges involving a 13-year old girl.
A celebrity social media campaign is highlighting issues of sex trafficking abuse in the case of a Tennessee woman convicted as a teen of killing a 43-year-old man who had picked her up for sex.
Federal authorities have arrested eight men in North Texas on charges they sold women, including at least three juveniles, to have sex with men who had responded to online advertising.
Local law enforcement arrested 28 people and they said there will likely be more to come.
"It's been 106 days since she's been gone," said Felita Verdell.
A judge sentenced a 46-year-old North Texas man to prison after he admitted pimping a 16-Year-Old girl in Wichita Falls and Dallas.
A California judge tentatively rejected pimping charges Wednesday against the operators of a major international website that advertises escort services and was called the "world's top online brothel" by the state attorney general.
A judge has tentatively rejected pimping charges against the operators of a major international website that advertises escort services.
Authorities in Carrollton are investigating a fatal shooting involving a police officer. The deceased suspect was thought to be operating a sex trafficking business out of a hotel room.
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.
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A phone call from jail raised further suspicions that Carney targeted other girls.
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In 1991, a Plano girl was kidnapped and sexually assaulted. The same thing happened 8 years later in Dallas. Investigators found the same DNA on both victims.
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