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  • Man in black jacket holds up an anti-human trafficking sign at a demonstration. | Photo by Hermes Rivera on Unsplash

    How You Can Help In The Fight Against Human Trafficking

    January 27th, 2023
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Anyone can, potentially, help in the battle against human trafficking. How? One possible place to start is by learning and researching on spotting some typical signs and indicators of this tragic crime. So, if you happen to come...

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  • Representative image of labor, depicting the hands and legs of a person using a shovel at a construction site | Photo by Dylan Gillis on Unsplash

    Human Trafficking: The State Of Forced Labor — An Introduction

    October 7th, 2022
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic struck, all manner of criminal activity also increasingly shifted to the virtual world. That included human traffickers, who began to use online channels more and more to conduct their activities. They used digital...

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  • The Fight Against Human Trafficking: The White House’s New National Action Plan To Combat Human Trafficking

    December 6th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In July, Biometrica wrote about how human traffickers adapted to the "new normal" after Covid-19 and appeared to be increasingly targeting children online, even as the pool of vulnerable persons who could be recruited by these criminals grew,...

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  • US Files Charges Against Filipino Pastor Who Said It Was ‘God’s Will’ That Minors Have Sex With Him

    November 30th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer U.S. prosecutors recently announced that they have filed sex trafficking charges against Apollo Carreon Quiboloy, the Philippine national who founded a church called Kingdom of Jesus Christ, as well as two U.S.-based administrators of that church. The superseding...

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  • Shadowy image of a girl looking through gaps in the slats out the window

    The 2003 PROTECT Act And Safeguarding Children From Sexual Exploitation

    October 28th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh On Wednesday, Oct. 27, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced that a Virginia man, 26-year-old Zackary Ellis Sanders, had been convicted by a federal jury for producing, receiving, and possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The DOJ alleges that...

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  • A man rifling through a box of files

    Tackling The ‘Rape Kit Backlog’

    October 11th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh In August, police in Dallas, Texas, arrested former dentist David Thomas Hawkins, 75, for an aggravated sexual assault — that happened nearly four decades ago. In 1985, Hawkins had raped at gunpoint Carrie Krejci, and since then had successfully...

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  • National Domestic Violence Awareness Month Kicks Off With Over $476M In Office On Violence Against Women Grants

    October 6th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and the Department of Justice (DOJ) is kicking that off by announcing more than $476 million in Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) grants, it said in a statement on Tuesday,...

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  • Representative photo of a woman looking dejected leaning against a pillar | Photo by Eric Ward on Unsplash

    Sextortion Complaints Are On The Rise Again, And The Victims Span All Age Groups

    September 24th, 2021
    category: Background Check ABCs

    By a Biometrica staffer There's been a large increase in the number of sextortion complaints made to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Bureau's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warned at the start of this month. As of July 31, 2021,...

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  • Representative photo of a dog behind bars | Photo by Valerie Blanchett on Unsplash

    The Insidious Link Between Animal Cruelty And Violent Crimes Against Humans

    August 18th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind Historically, animal cruelty was considered an isolated issue — one that didn't really harm the human population. As a result, perhaps, the process of recognizing animal cruelty as a serious violent offense in and of itself developed only slowly...

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    How A Law Intended To Dismantle The Mafia Is Being Used To Prosecute Long-Running Sexual Abuse

    August 12th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh On Wednesday, Aug. 11, a federal jury of seven men and five women was impanelled in New York in the trial of disgraced R&B superstar Robert Kelly (known professionally as R. Kelly) on racketeering and sex trafficking charges. This...

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  • Representative photo of a doll | Image by pasja1000 from Pixabay

    The CREEPER Act: The Case For Banning Child Sex Dolls And Robots

    August 5th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Deepti Govind Just three weeks ago, the Department of Justice said a 53-year old Maryland resident, Jeffrey John White, was sentenced to more than 11 years in federal prison for possessing thousands of files of child pornography. When the case was...

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  • ICE Announces First ‘Continued Presence’ Resource Guide To Help Victims Of Human Trafficking

    August 2nd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced its first Continued Presence (CP) resource guide on Friday, July 30, targeted at assisting federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial law enforcement agencies nationwide with their human trafficking investigations and prosecutions. The CP...

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    Kayleigh’s Law: Targeting Lifetime Protection For Some Sexual Assault Victims

    July 22nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer On Wednesday, July 21, a legislator in Wisconsin proposed what's known as "Kayleigh's Law" in the state legislature to help protect certain sexual assault victims from their attackers. The proposed bill would allow those who have been victims...

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  • Representative black & white photo of a man wearing a human trafficking awareness hoodie | Photo by Kate Oseen on Unsplash

    Women, Children, Migrants: The Three Most Vulnerable Groups To Human Trafficking During The Covid-19 Pandemic

    July 19th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By a Biometrica staffer The Covid-19 pandemic turned the whole world upside down in a manner of speaking, but for some sections of global society, the impact was darker and more pronounced. Last Tuesday, we gave you a brief overview of the...

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  • Representative photo of a Native American woman with a child | Image by iGlobalWeb from Pixabay

    How The Violence Against Women Act Might Better Protect Indigenous Women

    July 13th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Aara Ramesh Among the many verdicts handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court last month was the unanimous affirmation of the right of tribal law enforcement officers to detain non-Native people who they reasonably suspect to have been involved in a...

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  • Texas Supreme Court Says Facebook Can Be Held Liable For Child Sex Trafficking On Its Platform

    June 28th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer In a move likely may have a far-reaching ripple effect, on Friday, June 25, the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Facebook can be held responsible for its users engaging in illegal sex trafficking activities on the site, regardless...

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  • Landmark Anti-Sex Trafficking Law From 2018 Barely Used: Accountability Watchdog

    June 25th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Aara Ramesh A landmark law intended to radically alter the landscape of sex trafficking online has had a limited impact in the three years since it was enacted, according to a recent report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)....

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  • Representative photo of a truck in a vast, deserted landscape |Photo by Alexander Naumann | Pixabay

    The Combating Human Trafficking In Commercial Vehicles Act: An Overview

    June 10th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Charlotte Spencer The Combating Human Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act (hereafter, the Act) is a relatively new law designed to help do exactly what its title suggests. The Act — S. 1536 — passed the House and Senate in 2017, and...

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  • Catholic Church Law Tightened To Explicitly Criminalize Sexual Abuse Of Adults By Priests, Laity

    June 2nd, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Tuesday, June 1, Pope Francis made a long-awaited change to the criminal section of the Code of Canon Law, or Catholic Church law: The changes explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who misuse their...

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  • Representative photo of a lonely child | Photo by Michal Jarmoluk | Pixabay

    How To Protect Children And Disrupt The Cycle Of Exploitation

    June 2nd, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Jan Edwards May 25 was International Mission Children’s Day. Globally, more than one million children are reported missing every year. ICMEC considers any child under the age of 18 whose whereabouts are unknown to be “missing.” This includes children who have...

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  • Image of a vulnerable child.

    A Slew Of Wins For Federal, State & Military Law Enforcement On Child Sexual Abuse Cases

    April 26th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica Staffer If you talk to any investigator working in child protection, he or she would tell you it is a mentally, emotionally and physically exhausting job, because of the nature of often horrifying crimes they are constantly investigating, the...

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  • Slew Of Bills Passed In New Jersey To Expand Rape Victims’s Rights

    April 20th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On April 19, Gov. Phil Murphy of New Jersey signed a package of bills into law, with an aim of bettering the criminal justice system to make it more respectful and responsive to victims of sexual assault crimes....

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  • Ms Wilson's life in a collage since birth.

    I Survived Child Sex Trafficking. So Can You. This Is My Story.

    April 14th, 2021
    category: Feature Stories

    By Barbara Jean Wilson I was eight years old when my mother’s boyfriend, “Uncle Bob,” as he asked me to call him, touched me, and told me not to tell anyone. He said he was doing what he needed to make me...

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  • Harvey Weinstein’s Legal Team Pushes Back Against His Extradition To L.A. Due To His Failing Health

    April 13th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer On Monday, April 12, erstwhile and disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein made his appearance via video conference along with his attorneys at an extradition hearing. He was secretly indicted by a grand jury in Los Angeles a couple...

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  • Arizona House Passes Bill Imposing Strict Punishments For Child Sex Offenders

    March 4th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By Anand Vasu The Arizona House passed Bill HB 2889 that will ensure convicted child offenders would not have the option of probation, parole or work release. This means that an individual serving a 10-20 year sentence, would not have the chance...

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  • Groping a child through clothes not sexual assault?

    January 27th, 2021
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer January 27, 2021 Groping a child through clothing does not constitute sexual assault, the Nagpur bench of the Bombay High Court ruled last week, drawing outrage across the country. On Wednesday, India’s top court suspended that ruling and...

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  • Two ‘ISIS Beatles’ charged with deaths of Americans in Syria

    October 7th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    Two of the 'ISIS Beatles' are expected to arrive in the US today to face federal charges over jailing, torturing and beheading American hostages. By a Biometrica staffer Two notorious Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) militant detainees from Britain are...

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  • 10 sentenced to prison for child exploitation enterprise & conspiracy

    October 1st, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Ten men from around the US have been sentenced for taking part in a child pornography enterprise and conspiracy, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Of the ten, three are based in New York, two...

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  • Middle school teacher arrested on child pornography charges

    September 24th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A middle school teacher from Fontana, California, was arrested on child pornography charges by special agents with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Josue Gamaliel Vidal Quintanilla, 28, who teaches mathematics at Shandin Hills...

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  • Las Vegas man sentenced 35 yrs for child sexual abuse

    September 16th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A man was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for repeatedly sexually assaulting a child, producing images of the sexual abuse, and possessing hundreds of images and videos of the sexual assaults. Andres Rafael Viola, an Argentine...

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  • American man indicted for exploiting Laotian kids

    August 28th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer An American man was indicted for exploiting teenage boys in Laos, where he taught English, the US Department of Justice said in a statement. Michael Sebastian, 52, was indicted on three counts of engaging in illicit sexual conduct...

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  • 34 charged for soliciting sex with minors, CSAM

    August 12th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    With the covid-19 pandemic keeping many schools shut, children are spending a lot more time online to learn | © Pavalache Stelian - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer Operation Covid Chatdown led to the arrest of 34 men in Fresno, California, for...

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  • Crisis trafficking situations rose over 40% in April: Polaris data

    June 10th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    The number of crisis trafficking situations in the US increased by over 40% this April, when several states had already enacted a shelter-in-place order due to the Covid-19 pandemic | © Joshua Resnick - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer The number of...

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  • Harvey Weinstein sentenced to 23 years in prison

    March 11th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer Harvey Weinstein was sentenced to 23 years in prison in a New York courtroom on March 11, marking the culmination of a case that fueled the global #MeToo movement. The ex-Hollywood producer had faced between five and 29...

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  • Prominent Connecticut eye doctor charged with sexual assault

    January 14th, 2020
    category: News Reports

    By a Biometrica staffer A prominent Connecticut eye doctor has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman repeatedly over a lengthy period of time, according to an AP report. Some of the assaults by the man, 35-year old Dr Ian Gorovoy, allegedly...

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  • Two passengers allege sexual assault on Frontier Airlines flights

    December 25th, 2019
    category: News Reports

    Two female passengers alleged in a federal lawsuit that they were sexually assaulted on Frontier Airlines flights in separate incidents in 2018 | © Joezachs - Dreamstime.com By a Biometrica staffer Two female passengers alleged in a federal lawsuit that they were...

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  • Dabbling In The Dark Arts? A Look At Offensive Cyber Ops 101

    Dabbling In The Dark Arts? A Look At Offensive Cyber Ops 101

    May 18th, 2017
    category: Feature Stories

    Picture: © Saporob | Dreamstime.com The lines between our physical and virtual worlds continue to blur, and the words, “you’ve been hacked,” continue to take on all sorts of ominous connotations across these blurred lines, especially after a mega attack like last week’s WannaCry. With...

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