Forced labour and rape, the new face of slavery in America

[childadvocate]

http://ritualabuse.us
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/22/people-trafficking-usa-prostitution-ohio
describes crimes
In the Midwestern heartland, police are encountering a new social
evil: trafficking, often involving women and children who are forced
to work as prostitutes or unpaid labour; and the outcomes can be
brutal. Paul Harris in Dayton, Ohio The Observer, Sunday 22 November
2009 Figures from the State Department reveal that 17,500 people are
trafficked into the US every year against their will or under false
pretences, mainly to be used for sex or forced labour. Experts believe
that, when cases of internal trafficking are added, the total number
of victims could be up to five times larger....Anti-trafficking
campaigners point out that cases in the US come in a wide variety of
forms involving men, women and children. One major area is that of
trafficked labour with people used for domestic work or, more
commonly, for back-breaking labour in agricultural industries. But
trafficking cases have also occurred in businesses such as
restaurants, hair salons and beauty parlours. The overwhelming
majority of the rest are sex cases, usually involving young women or
children forced into prostitution. The methods used to keep people
vary. They include confiscating the passports of those brought in from
a foreign country or the threat of extreme violence. Other tactics are
to threaten family members if a victim does not comply or, as in
Flores's case, to use blackmail.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/22/people-trafficking-usa-prostitution-ohio