Involuntary servitude.
vincemichaels
Detroit
AP
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Police arrested four men and a woman for allegedly helping force women to work as prostitutes in Mexico and the United States, authorities said Friday.
Mexican federal police said they acted on information from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office indicating some of the women were taken to New York. Police did not say where in New York the women were prostituted, but said there were outstanding U.S. extradition requests for some of the suspects.
The arrests were made Thursday during raids on four homes in the town of Tenancingo in central Tlaxcala state, which has long served as a center for Mexican pimps and the forced-prostitution trade.
The alleged leader of the gang, Antonio Lira Robles, lured women with promises and trickery to Mexico City and later forced them into prostitution, authorities said. Some were later taken to the United States.
Pimps in Tenancingo are know for wooing women to their town with false promises of marriage or good jobs. Isolated and under psychological pressure and sometimes beatings, the women are forced to become prostitutes.
In some cases, they are held against their will, or their children are taken away and the pimps threaten the women that they won't see their kids again if they disobey orders.
The suspects were turned over to prosecutors for investigation on possible human trafficking charges.
Police also seized two pistols in the raids.
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I am in favor of decriminalizing prostitution in the US but that is NOT a solution to the problem. Sex slavery exists in Canada, Europe and other locals around the world along side of legal prostitution. Next to pedophilia, this is perhaps the sickest and most unforgivable of crimes against humanity. Consenting adults means *ADULTS* and *ALL* parties are consenting.
And yes, if you frequent SCs you have most probably encountered sex slaves whether you know it or not.
Sorry for making light of a serious situation worldwide, but it follows that the "world's second oldest profession" would be control of the "world's oldest profession".
What was mind blowing to see, when an NBC reporter lead Thai Police to raid a bordello of underage girls, the girls were beyond confused. They were raised in the bordello and it was all that they had known. They had nowhere to go, and didn't know what to do.
Can servitude start as voluntary servitude and progress to involuntary servitude?
Exactly the response I expected from many! Well, many husbands.
Does she have car payments to make?