Iran emerges as a hub for international organ-trafficking
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American Thinker ^
| 22 May, 2024 | Amil Imani
Organ traffickers exploit vulnerable people in Iran with promises of big bucks for their organs. The
life-saving promise of organ transplants is marred by a disturbing reality: international organ trafficking rings. This lucrative criminal enterprise preys on the desperate and fuels a black market catering to wealthy recipients, often oligarchs, seeking a quick fix. Iran, under a criminal regime, has emerged as a suspected hub in this illicit trade. Accusations point to a system where Iranian citizens, burdened by economic hardship, are coerced into selling their organs to foreign recipients. While the extent of the practice remains unclear, reports suggest...
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Texas: Roman Catholic priest faces child sexual abuse and trafficking charges
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The Guardian ^
| Wed 21 Feb 2024 06.00 EST | Ramon Antonio Vargas
A Roman Catholic priest near the US’s border with Mexico is facing criminal charges on allegations that he sexually molested a child, according to authorities.Fernando Gonzalez Ortega’s arrest for sexually abusing a minor and of trafficking of persons demonstrates that US Catholic bishops have not yet rooted out all molesters under their
command despite reform prompted by the worldwide church’s decades-old clergy molestation scandal, abuse victims and their advocates have argued.
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Guatemalan Authorities Investigate Biden-linked NGO Suspected of Child-Trafficking Crimes
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American Greatness ^
| 14 May, 2024 | Debra Heine
A Biden-linked Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) that has been active on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border is being investigated in Guatemala for child trafficking. Guatemalan
authorities raided the offices of Save the Children on April 25, citing complaints of sexual abuse of Guatemalan children in Texas shelters. The raid was reportedly carried out by officers from the Special Public Prosecutor Against Impunity and the Civil Police. Rafael Curruchiche, the Guatemalan Prosecutor for Impunity, said the case is “transnational and of great transcendence,” involving several organizations. Save the Children Guatemala has denied all allegations of misconduct. Save the Children operates in...
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Archdiocese of New Orleans under investigation for decades-long child sex trafficking coverup
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WBRZ ^
| April 30, 2024 | WBRZ Staff
Louisiana State Police are investigating the Archdiocese of New Orleans for possible child sex trafficking linked to widespread sexual abuse committed by priests over several decades, WWL reported from a criminal warrant Tuesday. The warrant says that Louisiana State Police are seeking all documents linked to the archdiocese's sexual abuse scandal including
letters and emails, as well as priest assignments, transfers and personnel files. State Police are also asking the archdiocese turn over records of all complaints of sexual abuse made to archdiocesan officials and financial records related to the archdiocese's sexual abuse cases and documents that led to priests...
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25 Sexual Predators Jailed over ‘Shocking’ Rape, Sexual Abuse, and Trafficking of Eight Young Girls. ( United Kingdom )
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Breitbart News ^
| 27 Apr 2024 | KURT ZINDULKA
A total of 25 men mostly of South Asian descent have been sentenced to a collective 346 years in prison over the “abhorrent in the extreme” rape, sexual abuse, and trafficking of girls between 1999 and 2012 in the North Kirklees area of West Yorkshire. Operation Tourway, an investigation starting in 2015
focussing on the towns of Batley and Dewsbury, has jailed 25 men in connection to the “absolutely shocking offending” sexual abuse, rape, and trafficking of eight girls, whom the police said were treated as “defenceless commodities to be abused and traded at whim”. The arrests took place in...
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Investigators say Harvard University's morgue manager was part of an underground network trafficking human remains. Here's how it unravelled
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ABC.NET Australia News ^
| Sat 20 Apr 2024 | Brianna Morris-Grant
In October 2021, a woman in the US state of Arkansas allegedly typed out a simple Facebook message: "Just out of curiosity, would you know anyone in the market for a fully intact, embalmed brain?"The woman was a staffer at Arkansas Central Mortuary Services, and according to prosecutors, the message was sent
to an antique dealer in Pennsylvania.A search of his home would later uncover multiple buckets containing human remains, including pieces of brain, heart, livers, skin and lungs.Investigators say the pair were part of an underground community spanning multiple states across the US, made up of both morgue staff...
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Guatemala is investigating U.S. NGOs for child trafficking, seeks Texas AG collaboration
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Sara Carter ^
Guatemala’s Attorney General is investigating ongoing criminal claims that a number of American tax payer funded non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating both inside and outside the United States are complicit in the ongoing trafficking, abuse and disappearance of children from its nation, according to an official Guatemalan letter obtained by this investigative columnist.
The Guatemalan government is seeking full cooperation from the State of Texas, where the accusations of abuse have been reported, government officials told SaraACarter.com. A letter from Guatemalan Attorney General María Consuelo Porras was sent to Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday. Porras asked Paxton for immediate assistance...
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Episcopal Priest Admits to Aiding and Abetting the Trafficking of Illegal Cross-sex Hormones for Underage Kids
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Disntr ^
| April 4, 2024 | staff
The Episcopal Church is an apostate denomination. In
August 2022, they passed a resolution affirming sex change surgeries for children of any age. Because apparently mutilating children’s bodies to fit a certain ideology is a top priority for this “Christian” denomination. Patrick Burke is the Rector at the Episcopal Church of Saints Andrew and Matthew in Wilmington, Delaware. He holds a Master of Divinity from Bexley Seabury Seminary in Chicago and has devoted his entire life to merging sexual immorality and Marxist concepts with professing Christianity, where he advocates for abnormal sexual behaviors such as “transgenderism” and attempts to mainstream...
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Five Arrested in South Texas for Allegedly Trafficking Military Grade Firearms to Mexican Drug Cartel
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justice.gov ^
| March 26, 2024 | Office of Public Affairs
Five individuals were arrested in Laredo, Hebbronville, and Falls City, Texas, last week for allegedly trafficking military grade firearms to a drug cartel in Mexico.According to court documents, Gerardo Rafael Perez Jr., also known as Jerry, 23, of Laredo, allegedly coordinated the acquisition of more than 100 firearms throughout Texas to be
smuggled across the international border and delivered to a drug trafficking cartel in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico. Perez’s organization allegedly used straw purchasers, including co-defendants Francisco Alejandro Benavides, also known as Frankie, 23, and Mark Anthony Trevino Jr., 24, to procure the firearms from a variety of sources...
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Jesse Watters — Sexual trafficking case about to bust wide open for Trump hating Sean Combs.
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Twitter - X - / CitizenFreePress ^
| March 27, 2024 | Staff
For two decades, Diddy was the Democrats’ biggest black celebrity influencer. Democrats
used Diddy’s charisma, star power and street cred in the black community, every single election. He was a political enforcer and in the back pocket of the powerful. That made him powerful, with a free pass. Now if Diddy’s found guilty, he’s a combination of Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein. So how prevalent is sexual blackmail in American industry and Democrat politics? It’s more than you think. And the powerful not only tolerate it, they participate in it. VIDEO AT LINK..........................
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Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Remarks About Trump Come Back to Haunt Him Amid ‘Sex Trafficking’ Probe
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Disswire.com ^
| 26 March 2024 | Michael Taylor
As federal Homeland Security Investigations agents descended on Sean “Diddy” Combs’ property as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation against the Rapper, his past remarks about President Donald Trump in 2020 have begun to make the rounds on X. Four years ago, the rapper called for President Trump to be "banished"
as he ramped up efforts to jail sex traffickers. Fast forward to 2024, Trump is headed for another landslide Presidential win, while alleged “sex pervert” “Diddy” is at the center of a massive sex trafficking probe.
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U.S. Attorney Announces Nuclear Materials Trafficking Charges Against Japanese Yakuza Leader
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Justice.gov ^
| February 21, 2024 | U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York
Takeshi Ebisawa of Japan, Leader Within the Yakuza Transnational Organized Crime Syndicate, Allegedly Trafficked Nuclear Materials, Including Uranium and Weapons-Grade PlutoniumDamian Williams, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York; Matthew G. Olsen, the Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s National Security Division; and Anne Milgram, the Administrator
of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (“DEA”), announced the issuance today of a Superseding Indictment charging TAKESHI EBISAWA with conspiring with a network of associates to traffic nuclear materials from Burma to other countries. In the course of this conspiracy, EBISAWA and his confederates showed samples of nuclear...
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Woman, Man Sentenced for Trafficking Fentanyl, Methamphetamine From Mexico, USDOJ Says
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WSB-TV ^
| March 16, 2024
The U.S. Department of Justice announced a man and woman had been sentenced for their parts in a conspiracy to import and sell fentanyl and methamphetamine from Mexico. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Georgia, Alba Ordoñez-Ordoñez was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison
for “conspiring to transport and distribute fentanyl disguised as oxycodone pills and methamphetamine” in the Atlanta area. Jose Guadalupe Canizales-Rivera was sentenced for helping her with her methamphetamine operation, justice officials said. U.S. Attorney Ryan K. Buchanan said the charges and evidence presented in court are from a...
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India says it uncovers trafficking racket duping people into fighting for Russia in Ukraine
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Reuters ^
| 4/8/2024 | Sakshi Dayal Krishn Kaushik
India said it had uncovered a "major human trafficking network" which lured young men to Russia with the promise of jobs only to force them to fight in the war in Ukraine. About 35 men have been sent to Russia in the scheme so far, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) said
late on Thursday, an increase from the 20 men that the Indian foreign ministry had earlier mentioned. At least two men who went to Russia expecting to work as "helpers" in the army have died while fighting at the front, their families have said. The Indian Embassy in...
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Tim Tebow Testifies Before Congress, Speaking On Child Exploitation And Human Trafficking
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One America News ^
| 6 Mar, 2024 | Abril Elfi
Tim Tebow, a former NFL quarterback, spoke before Congress on the subject of human trafficking as well as strategies to stop the rise of child exploitation. On
Wednesday, Tebow visited Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., where he proposed legislation, “to enhance the capability to identify and locate the more than 50,000 unidentified children who are being abused, raped and tortured.” “To sum it up, we strive to fight for people who can’t fight for themselves,” Tebow said. The former NFL star emphasized that there needed to be more precautions enacted in order to inhibit the online distribution of child sexual...
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Florida sheriff to Congress after illegal immigrants nabbed in human trafficking probe: 'Shame on all of them'
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Fox News ^
| 3/6/24 | Louis Casiano
Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said: 'The politicians are politicking while the victims are being victimized' A tough-on-crime Florida sheriff blasted congressional lawmakers for what he said were lax immigration policies after 21 illegal immigrants were among 228 people arrested in a human-trafficking bust. Polk
County Sheriff Grady Judd said the eight-day, multi-agency operation titled "Operation March Sadness 2024" included the arrests of military service members, teachers, coaches and medical professionals. The operation began on Feb. 22. Those accused of being in the United States illegally were from Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru and Venezuela, the sheriff's office said. "We...
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Florida sheriff[Judd]: Military, teacher included in those apprehended in massive human trafficking bust
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Fox News ^
| 3/5/24 | Stephen Sorace
A massive human trafficking bust in Florida resulted in 228 arrests, including members of the U.S. military and a teacher, authorities said Tuesday. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said 150 suspects, or johns, were arrested along with 66 prostitutes and 12 others in the multi-agency operation dubbed "Operation March Sadness 2024." Among
the suspects were a schoolteacher, coaches and active duty military members, among other professions. Of the 228 individuals arrested, 21 were in the country illegally. Authorities also identified at least 13 potential human trafficking victims. The sheriff noted that within one year of performing these types of operations,...
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Ron DeSantis approves release of more Jeffrey Epstein records: Florida governor signs bill to release details of his Palm Beach sex trafficking conviction
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UK Daily Mail ^
| February 29 2024 | GERMANIA RODRIGUEZ POLEO FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and ASSOCIATED PRESS
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill approving the release of records relating to the first probe into Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking operation. The
Republican traveled to Palm Beach to sign the bill, HB 117, which will open access to the 2006 grand jury that resulted in a criminal charge against the disgraced financier that many called questionably lenient. 'There were a lot of questions about what happened where you had a sweetheart deal... This is long overdue but again, we feel that we can't just turn a blind eye,' said DeSantis, who was accompanied by two of Epstein's...
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Drummond demands answers from Biden Administration on migrant child trafficking
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GENTNER DRUMMOND Oklahoma AG ^
| 2/27/2024 | GENTNER DRUMMOND
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 27, 2024 Drummond demands answers from Biden Administration on migrant child trafficking OKLAHOMA CITY (Feb. 27, 2024) -- Attorney General Gentner Drummond has sent a letter demanding the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and FBI address a recent HHS
Office of Inspector General (OIG) report that found unaccompanied migrant children in the custody of the federal government are being released into unsafe situations, including into human trafficking. “It is inexcusable that the Biden Administration is failing to provide proper oversight and protection for tens of thousands of...
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Epstein victims accuse FBI of enabling sex trafficking in new lawsuit
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The Hill ^
| 14 February 2024 | NICK ROBERTSO
A dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein sued the U.S. government Wednesday, accusing the FBI of allowing and enabling his sex trafficking for two decades. The
anonymous victims alleged that the FBI had received credible tips about Epstein’s sex trafficking operation as early as 1996 but did not investigate them. A probe finally began in 2006, the suit says, but ended once Epstein pleaded guilty to a soliciting prostitution charge in Florida and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. The suit claims the FBI continued to ignore tips until Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019. He killed...
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