40.3 million people are victims of modern day slavery, which includes 24.9 million in forced labor and 15.4 million in forced marriages. Of the 24.9 million people entrapped by forced labor, 4.8 million people are in forced sexual exploitation, which disproportionately affects women. 99% of victims of commercial sex are women and girls. These are staggering statistics, and New York City is one of the largest destinations for trafficked women in the entire United States in large part due to high demand and access to ports. Human traffickers exploit victims in all five boroughs and target the majority of victims specifically for sex trade. The sex trade is also a billion-dollar industry with a demand that grows each year. Within the United States, there are large disparities between the organizations that advocate on the part of the victims, law enforcement, and legislation to combat the problem. At risk youth continue to be trafficked disproportionally because of the lack of funding in poor communities and in the foster care system. 

Slavery is found throughout California, but major hubs are centered on Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco. According to the 2011 Department of State report, California, together with New York, Texas, and Oklahoma, has the largest concentrations of survivors of human trafficking.

98% of sex trafficking victims worldwide are female. An estimated 403,000 people are being trafficked in the United States. New York City is a gateway and one of the largest destinations for trafficked women in the country. Right now in every borough, women are being forced into prostitution.

Over 35,000 malnourished, caged and tortured children have been reported rescued or found deceased in underground tunnels beneath large US cities including one beneath New York Central Park, “with more coming” according to reporter Timothy Charles Holmseth of the Pentagon Pedophile Task Force on 3 April.

There’s a Secret Tunnel Under Central Park. … Archival maps of the New York subway system have included this “ghost tunnel” twice: Once, in the summer of 1995, and a second time during the winter of 1998. In both instances, the tunnel was used to temporarily reroute the Q train during construction.

While some of NYC’s old tunnels and stations seem to have been neglected for good, many are reused—like the abandoned tunnel below Central Park that became part of the Second Avenue subway—and repurposed, as graffiti canvases, art galleries, party spaces, or even a VIP entrance to one of New York’s most luxurious

More than 13,000 people were reported missing in New York City last year. While most are promptly found, hundreds of people become missing long term (missing for 60 or more days.)

800,000 childrenAccording to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, roughly 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States — that’s roughly 2,000 per day. Of those, there are 115 child “stranger abduction” cases each year, which means the child was taken by an unknown person. Now ask yourself what is really happening to the children that are going missing. Human trafficking has to play a big role children just do not go missing for nothing.

1 (888) 373-7888

National Human Trafficking Hotline

It is know secret that Pharmaceutical companies make a killing world wide. The United States accounts for more than a third of the global pharmaceutical market, with $340 billion in annual sales followed by the EU and Japan. Just in 2020 alone Pharmaceuticals Market to Reach USD 1,310.0 Billion in 2020; Eruption of the COVID-19 Pandemic to Accelerate the Demand for Effective Treatments and Drugs Worldwide: Fortune Business Insights.

In 2019 the Combined total profits for these companies was about $744 Billion. -All 13 pharmaceutical companies spent a total of $643 Billion on research. -The total amount they spent on marketing was about 60% more than what they spent on research: $1.04 Trillion. The overall economic impact of the bio-pharmaceutical industry on the U.S. economy is substantial. The industry accounted for more than $1.3 trillion in economic output, representing 4 percent of total U.S. output in 2015 alone.

With a record 47,600 opioid overdose deaths in 2017: A new study linked drug companies’ marketing for opioid painkillers to more. Opioid painkillers aren’t the sole driver of overdose deaths in the US — particularly as illegal opioids, like illicit fentanyl and heroin, have taken off — though they’re still involved in 40 percent of opioid overdose deaths, according to the study. Whether and how more opioid prescriptions may lead to other kinds of opioid overdose deaths needs to be studied further, the researchers cautioned.

The opioid epidemic can be understood in three waves. In the first wave, starting in the late 1990s and early 2000s, doctors prescribed a lot of opioid painkillers. That caused the drugs to proliferate to widespread misuse and addiction — among not just patients but also friends and family of patients, teens who took the drugs from their parents’ medicine cabinets, and people who bought excess pills from the black market.

A second wave of drug overdoses took off in the 2000s when heroin flooded the illicit market, as drug dealers and traffickers took advantage of a new population of people who used opioids but either lost access to painkillers or simply sought a better, cheaper high. And in recent years, the US has seen a third wave, as fentanyls offer an even more potent, cheaper — and deadlier — alternative to heroin.

It’s the first wave, though, that really kicked off the opioid crisis — and it’s where marketing for opioid painkillers is likely most relevant. (The study, however, could only look at recent data, because similar statistics don’t exist for prior years. So we don’t know if things are getting worse or better when it comes to marketing.)

Over the past few years, we’ve seen more and more reports about opioid companies aggressively marketing their products, even as it became clearer that the drugs weren’t the safe, effective alternative to other painkillers on the market that they claimed opioids to be.

Billions of taxpayer dollars go into the creation and marketing of new drugs. The Los Angeles Times reports that, “Since the 1930s, the National Institutes of Health has invested close to $900 billion in the basic and applied research that formed both the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors.” Despite taxpayers’ crucial investment, U.S. consumers are increasingly paying more for their prescription drugs.

A 2018 study on the National Institute of Health’s (NIH) financial contributions to new drug approvals found that the agency “contributed to published research associated with every one of the 210 new drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration from 2010–2016.” More than $100 billion in NIH funding went toward research that contributed directly or indirectly to the 210 drugs approved during that six-year period. The NIH Research Project Grant which supports health-related research—was by far the most common kind of grant used to fund the science that supported the new drugs. In all, NIH gave out nearly 118,000 grants related to those drugs from 2010 to 2016.

The top 10 pharmaceutical companies, ranked by revenue: 

1. Pfizer — $51.75 billion
   
2. Roche — $50 billion
   
3. Novartis — $47.45 billion
   
4. Merck — $46.84 billion
   
5. GlaxoSmithKline — $43.54 billion
   
6. Johnson & Johnson — $42.1 billion
   
7. AbbVie — $33.27 billion
   
8. Sanofi — $27.77 billion
   
9. Bristol-Myers Squibb — $26.15 billion
   
10. AstraZeneca — $23.57 billion 

Human trafficking has become the Elephant in the room when it comes to the main media. Sure every once in a while the media will report on it. In 2018, a quarter of the 198 reported cases of sex trafficking in Kentucky were in Louisville, based on a report from the state’s Department of Community Based Services.

Louisville is a hub for sex trafficking, its location and crisscrossing interstates making it easy to move a victim across state lines, which complicates prosecutions. Jefferson County consistently has the highest number of trafficking cases in the state.

Here we have seven people arrested in human trafficking sting in Louisville, Ky.

Where trafficking is found human trafficking  is a global issue that is fueled by a strong demand, and can be found almost anywhere. Sex trafficking more often involves women and girls, however boys and men often are exploited as well. Victims of sex trafficking might find themselves being forced to act in porn films, be prostitutes, work for a pimp, work in an exotic strip club, or be a personal sex slave. Forced labor can be found in private homes in the form of domestic servants, as well as in restaurants, on farms, in massage parlors, etc. Child soldiers and organ trafficking victims are  found outside the United States in countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burma, Syria, and Sudan, among others.

In Kentucky In Kentucky, sex trafficking is very much existent. The Kentucky Derby is a major event for the sex industry. It creates such a large demand for escorts and prostitutes that some pimps were begging for more women and girls to be brought in for the 2013 Derby. Pimps and traffickers often advertise women and girls on websites such as Craigslist and Back-page.

Android founder, Andy Rubin, may have left Google long back in 2014, but his departure is beginning to attract more unsavory attention.

According to documents made public by a California superior court, Rubin left the company after having an “inappropriate relationship” with a subordinate, and allegedly concealed payments about his hefty severance package from his now-estranged wife for several years.

San Mateo Superior Court Judge Susan Greenberg unsealed a civil complaint brought by Rubin’s estranged wife, Rie Hirabaru Rubin. The complaint revealed how Google and its parent company Alphabet compensated the high-powered former executive in secret after he left the company following a sexual misconduct allegation. News of the former executive’s $90 million exit package sparked internal anger at Alphabet and widespread condemnation, leading to employee demonstrations, shareholder lawsuits, and revisions to policies on how the company handles sexual misconduct complaints.

The lawsuit, which was filed last October but was temporarily sealed by the court, alleges that Andy Rubin and his former lawyer conspired to defraud Rie Rubin by convincing her to sign a prenuptial agreement that later barred her from sharing any part of her husband’s financial gains. Rie Rubin, who is also seeking a divorce in a separate family court, is suing to invalidate that prenuptial agreement and to potentially lay claim to a portion of Andy Rubin’s net worth, which court documents estimate to be around $350 million.

While the lawsuit never explicitly states that Google paid $90 million as part of an exit package following an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct in 2014, it does state that “Rubin concealed his income” and that his wife “even now does not understand the full scope of his finances.” Rie Rubin also alleged that her husband opened a separate bank account a few months before he left Google in October 2014 to receive his earnings and make “hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to other women.”

In her ruling on Tuesday, Greenberg unsealed the documents, allowing the case to proceed, but asked that the plaintiff submit an amended complaint that removes many of the salacious charges around Andy Rubin’s alleged payments to other women for relationships.

According to the complaint, Rubin also ran “what appeared to be a sex ring,” echoing the New York Times report, which claimed the Android creator had been involved in “ownership relationships” with multiple women during his marriage.

However, Ellen Stross, one of Andy Rubin’s attorneys, disputed the claims of the lawsuit. She called the suit a “garden-variety family law dispute involving a wife who regrets her decision to execute a prenuptial agreement.”

Some most know facts about human trafficking in California Slavery is found throughout California, but major hubs are centered on Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego, and San Francisco.

According to the 2011 Department of State report, California, together with New York, Texas, and Oklahoma, has the largest concentrations of survivors of human trafficking. Sex Trafficking being the leading type of trafficking being seen in California.. California State Report for It reports that of all the victims of sex trafficking in California, 76.3% were females, 3.9% were males and 26.9% were minors. 5,147 human trafficking cases have been reported just in the year of 2018 alone.

The Gallia County Sheriff’s Office has recently charged eight men who agreed to meet and pay for sexual conduct with what the offender believed was a minor under the age of sixteen.

I personally did a blog about just how bad human trafficking was in Ohio. Just two days ago July 29, 2020 Gallia County charged eight men of paying for sexual conduct & human trafficking on minors under the age of sixteen.

“We know that predators are using the internet and technology and smart phone technology against our children every day,” Gallia County Sheriff Matt Champlin said.

Champlin said his department began Operation Predator in an effort to eliminate sexual predators from preying on youth in Gallia County. An estimated 2,879 native Ohio adolescents are at risk for sex trafficking and another 1,078 have been trafficked into the sex trade over the course of a year. Approximately 18% of Ohio’s victims said they became involved in the sex trade before age 18 and 10% said they became involved before age 12.

Ohio is particularly vulnerable to human trafficking because it has both large urban centers and rural counties and a large transient and immigrant population, as well as five major highways with easy access to other states and Canada. … 1,032 Ohio children are victims of human sex trafficking every year. The hot-line number for human trafficking is : 1 (888) 373-7888 Please contact your local authorities.

Texas has a rampant human trafficking problem. After California, it ranks second in number of calls to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. … In 2018, the state created “Texas Businesses Against Trafficking,” which equips businesses to help combat trafficking.

Report from the Statewide Human Trafficking Mapping Project of Texas, a collaboration among the Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (IDVSA) and the Bureau of Business Research at The University of Texas at Austin as well as Allies Against Slavery. The study found that there are more than 300,000 victims of human trafficking in Texas, including almost 79,000 minors and youth victims of sex trafficking and nearly 234,000 adult victims of labor trafficking. Minor and youth sex trafficking costs the state of Texas approximately $6.6 billion annually, and traffickers exploit approximately $600 million from victims of labor trafficking in Texas.

Texas is notoriously known for human trafficking. The situation has not and is not getting any better. The study found that there are more than 300,000 victims of human trafficking in Texas, including almost 79,000 minors and youth victims of sex trafficking and nearly 234,000 adult victims of labor trafficking.

Texas officials were failing child victims of sex trafficking in 2017.

As The Texas Tribune previously reported in our “Sold Out” series, state leaders’ bold campaign promises about ending sex trafficking proved hollow on closer inspection. We uncovered state laws passed to create programs for victims that were never funded and identified a pipeline of victims who often came from the state’s foster care program and ended up in jail.

In the three years since, state leaders have made serious reforms to some of the issues we reported on, though advocates say there’s still a long way to go.

Texas lawmakers have funded anti-trafficking efforts with millions of dollars and in 2017 and 2019 poured millions of new dollars into the state’s Child Protective Services and foster care systems.

Still, a federal judge recently fined the state for dragging its heels on implementing reforms ordered in the long-running lawsuit over the civil rights of children in foster care. Facilities that care for child sex-trafficking victims say they still need more funding. And law enforcement agencies say traffickers are changing the way they solicit potential victims faster than Texas officers can adapt.

What has the state done to combat sex trafficking?

Gov. Greg Abbott said he wants the state to prioritize sex trafficking and signed multiple bills last year to establish a Human Trafficking PreventionCoordinating Council, education courses and victim treatment programs.

But to the dismay of many anti-trafficking advocates, Abbott vetoed a bill decriminalizing prostitution for children because he said it would create “unintended consequences” — such as encouraging traffickers to use underage prostitutes so they would not get arrested. He also vetoed House Bill 3078, which sought to establish a separate clemency panel to review cases of jailed abuse survivors and sex-trafficking victims.

If you have any altercations or information on human trafficking world wide please contact 1 (888) 373-7888

The National Hot-line number.

Before you watch the video here is some very important facts. Human trafficking earns global profits of roughly $150 billion a year for traffickers, $99 billion of which comes from commercial sexual exploitation. Globally, an estimated 71% of enslaved people are women and girls, while men and boys account for 29%.

What are the top 10 cities for human trafficking?Reports of human trafficking is most prevalent in Washington DC, Nevada, and Florida and least prevalent in New Hampshire, Idaho and Massachusetts. The US cities where human trafficking is most reported per capital are Washington DC, Atlanta, Orlando, and Las Vegas.

Anyone selling sex who is under 18 is legally a trafficking victim. There are a number of racial myths and stereotypes associated with sex trafficking. While available evidence shows that racial minorities are more likely to be victims of sex trafficking, there is no truth behind the stereotype that certain races of men are more likely to be traffickers than men of other races.

We most stand together and protect our children from these horrible people. If money is the root of all evil then we are in our last days. National Human Trafficking Awareness Day is recognized annually in the United States on January 11. The purpose is to bring attention and opposition to human trafficking and modern-day slavery (neo-slavery). Let us spread the word like we do with sharing Facebook post.

It is no secret that human trafficking in Florida is one of the worse in America.

Matter fact according to the Human trafficking Hotline, Florida ranks third in U.S. in human trafficking cases reported by states, behind only California and Texas. … It is estimated by Florida Health that human trafficking in the U.S. is somewhere between 14,500 and 17,500 people annually. Human trafficking in Florida is the illegal trade of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor as it occurs in the state of Florida. After California and New York, Florida has the most human trafficking cases in the United States.

How common is human trafficking in Florida?But it’s difficult to find reliable numbers to demonstrate how prevalent sex trafficking is in the state. Figures from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement show there were 148 arrests statewide from 2014 to 2018 under three categories of the state’s human trafficking statute, an average of just under 30 per year

Over 100 Arrested in Sting Targeting ‘Repulsive’ Human Trafficking in Florida. Police in Florida have arrested over 100 people in an undercover human trafficking operation. Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office ran Operation Trade Secrets 2 over a 5-month period, and made 104 arrests, according to a press conference.

Human trafficking is a nasty business world wide. Saving our children should be the number one priority.

Human Trafficking Cases in Florida Reported to the NHTH. … Last year’s 767 reports of human trafficking led to the identification of 1,771 victims, 506 traffickers and 306 trafficking businesses. More than a fifth of human trafficking victims in Florida are children and the majority are female.

Chicago police officer Robert Rialmo has been on desk duty since fatally shooting Quintonio LeGrier and Bettie Jones in 2015. Rialmo has been charged with battery and theft after punching a man and allegedly stealing his jacket during a bar fight captured on video.

Human trafficking is very real and a multi-million dollar industry.National Human Trafficking Hotline 1 (888) 373-7888

Human trafficking is the trade of humans for the purpose of forced labour, sexual slavery, or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others. This may encompass providing a spouse in the context of forced marriage, or the extraction of organs or tissues, including for surrogacy and ova removal.

99% of the estimated 4.8 million sex trafficking victims across the world working in the sex industry are women and girls. 13,000 people are estimated by the UK government to be the victims of modern slavery in Britain today. 70% of the world’s 4.8 million sex trafficking victims are in the Asia and Pacific region.

How many slaves are in the UK today?The Walk Free Foundation reported in 2018 that slavery in advanced democratic nations is much more common than previously known, in particular the United States and Great Britain, which have 403,000 and 136,000 slaves respectively.

According to this definition, research from the Walk Free Foundation based on its Global Slavery Index 2018 estimated that there were about 40.3 million slaves around the world.

Human trafficking is very real and very scary. The main stream media has over looked this situation for way to long.