Resources: 1.1 Forms of Human Trafficking

Agricultural, Food Industry, and Field Labor

• Global Horizons Liable for Mistreating Thai Farm Laborers in Hawaii, 3-24-14 
• Jury Awards $240 Million for Long-Term Abuse of Workers With Intellectual Disabilities, 5-1-13 

Bars and Cantinas

• 14 Charged With Running International Sex Trafficking Ring, 10-11-13 

Casinos

• Eight Uzbekistan Nationals Among 12 Charged With Racketeering, Human Trafficking, and Immigration Violations in Scheme to Employ Illegal Aliens in 14 States, 5-27-09 

Construction Work

• Federal Agency Says 48 Thai Welders Forced to Work Without Pay in Squalid Conditions, 12-8-06 

Custodial Work (hotels, schools, public and private buildings)

• Five Brothers Charged in Human Trafficking Scheme that Smuggled Young Ukrainian Migrants to Work as Cleaning Crews, 6-30-10 

Domestic Servitude (housekeepers, nannies, home care providers)

• Alexandria, Virginia, Couple Arrested on Immigration Charges for Harboring Domestic Servant in Their Home, 3-5-14 
• Micronesian Couple Sentenced in State of Washington in Connection With Human Trafficking Violations, 10-19-11 
• Ft. Worth, Texas, Couple Charged With Holding Nigerian Woman in Domestic Servitude, 12-10-09 
• Housekeeper Accuses Diplomat of Human Trafficking, 6-26-13 

Elder Care

• California Couple Pleads Guilty in Alien Smuggling Scheme in Which Some Were Forced to Work at Elder Care Homes, 3-24-09 

Escort Services

• Contra Costa Man Sentenced to Five Years and Eight Months in Prison for Sex Trafficking and Pimping Charges after Trafficking Woman He Met on Escort Website, 6-3-15 
• Member of the Granados-Hernandez Sex Trafficking Organization, Eleuterio Granados-Hernandez, Sentenced to 22 Years in Prison, 3-7-14 
• Peruvian Woman Convicted of Running Sex Trafficking Venture, 11-19-13 

Factory Labor

• Former Owner of an American Samoa Garment Factory Sentenced to 40 Years in Prison for his Role in Holding Over 200 Victims in Forced Servitude, 6-23-05 

Health Care

• Highlands Ranch Man Found Guilty of Human Trafficking and Other Offenses, 7-1-13 

Internet Facilitation

• Pennsylvania Man Pleads Guilty to Running Sex Trafficking Operation to Compel Multiple Women and One Minor into Prostitution in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Elsewhere, 10-30-15  

Other Labor Trafficking Cases

• Ashland, Ohio, Couple Convicted of Labor Trafficking and Related Crimes, 3-7-14 
• New York State Fair Vendor is Accused of Human Trafficking for Underpaying Migrants, 4–19–11 

Public Begging and Street Peddling

• Deaf Mexicans Forced to Peddle the Streets of New York and Sell Trinkets on Subways, 9–28–06 

Restaurant work

• Minnesota Woman Pleads Guilty to Human Trafficking for Holding Victim in Forced Labor in Restaurant, 3-26-14 
• Houston Man Sentenced for Human Trafficking and Alien Smuggling, 4-27-09 
• South Carolina Man Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison for Forcing Man with Intellectual Disability to Work at Restaurant, 10-6-2019 

Salons

• Togolese Woman Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison for Forced Labor of Young West African Women in Hair Braiding Salons in Newark and East Orange, New Jersey, 9-20-10  

Servile Marriage

• Three Members of Clarkstown Family Convicted in Labor Trafficking and Sex Abuse Case, 2-27-12 

Sexualized Labor (such as stripping, exotic dancing, semi-nude performances)

• 8 Defendants Charged in ICE-led Probe Involving “Bar Girls” at Korean “Room Salon,” 1-13-12 
• Man Required to Pay Over $1 Million Restitution for Role in Conspiracy to Force Women to Work as Exotic Dancers, 8–16–07 

Other Sex Trafficking Cases

• Member of the Granados-Hernandez Sex Trafficking Organization, Eleuterio Granados-Hernandez, Sentenced to 22 Years In Prison, 3-7-14
• Milwaukee Man Pleads Guilty to Sex Trafficking Offenses, 6–11–14 
• Sparks Man Sentenced In Sex Trafficking Case, 6-2-14 
• Man Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison for Transporting Teenage Girls from California to Nevada to Work as Prostitutes, 5-21-14 
• 12 indicted for Their Roles in Alleged Sex Trafficking and Prostitution Ring, 1-17-13 
• Florida Man Convicted on Drug Distribution and Sex Trafficking Charges, 11-6-13 
• Sioux Falls Man Convicted in Sex Trafficking Case, 12-6-13 

Street-Based Prostitution

• Nashville, Tennessee, Woman Sentenced on Sex Trafficking Charges, 12-24-09 

Sex Tourism

• Man Pleads Guilty to International Child Sex Tourism, 2-2-10 

Traveling Sales Crews

• Police say 24 children rescued from human trafficking scheme
• Labor Trafficking on Traveling Sales Crews (2015) This issue brief, from Polaris, provides information on human trafficking in traveling sales crews.

Truck Stops

• Iowa Couple Plead Guilty to Sex Trafficking by Force, Fraud, or Coercion, 5-1-15 

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