Multiple Arrests Result in Shutdown of Child-Sex Trafficking Rings Across Deep South
Law enforcement agencies have announced a series of arrests spanning several deep south states, that police say resulted in the shutdown of a dangerous crime syndicate, and the annihilation of multiple child-sex trafficking and human trafficking rings, beginning in Iowa, and ending in the areas of Georgia, and finally South Carolina.
The first of the several trafficking rings begins with a case centering around a 16-year-old child, who we've learned was reported missing from Iowa, and was later traveling alongside a pair of criminals that the Myrtle Beach Police Department alleges were operating human trafficking, and child-sexual trafficking rings.
The young child, after being reported missing, is said to have willingly left Iowa in a vehicle traveling across multiple states with one male and one female adult, Phylicia Marie King, and 23-year-old Mark Cortez Spicer, as reported by local news affiliate Our Quad Cities.
The trio first headed eastbound out of Iowa, where they made their first stop in Chicago, Illinois, where the child was forced to perform sex acts on various men to finance the rest of the trip. That would be profitable for Mark Cortez Spicer, and his accomplice Phylicia Marie King, who took the proceeds to purchase gasoline, food, hotels, and other necessities. Little did the girl know just how deranged the trip would become.
They then headed to Nashville, Tennessee, continuing to sell the minor child for sexual exploitation, before arriving at their final destination in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.
On August 16th, just around week since the child and two adults first began their journey across the nation, the Myrtle Beach Police Department began its an investigation into allegations of possible human trafficking by following a series of leads which were called in to the Department by assigning Detectives "who are specially trained in these types of cases.”
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While human trafficking is defined by the Department of Homeland Security as being a "modern-day form of slavery involving the illegal trade of people for exploitation or commercial gain," it can take many forms throughout society, sometimes far more graphic than the next, but all victims are essentially enslaved.
Lured by false promises of a good job, educational opportunities, a stable conflict-free environment or even a loving romantic relationship, victims of human trafficking are then pushed into forced labor or begging, sexual exploitation, and domestic servitude.
Over the years, human trafficking has, unfortunately, become a global multi-billion-dollar enterprise that affects nearly every single country, according to the United Nations. And sex trafficking alone is among the world's fastest growing criminal industries.
There Are An Estimated 24.9 Million People Trapped In Forced Labor Via Human Trafficking Worldwide, as reported by the International Labor Organization (ILO). According to data from the UN , 51 percent of victims are women while another 20 percent are girls, accounting for 71 percent of victims.
According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime's 2016 Global Report on Trafficking in Persons, 54 percent of all trafficking victims in 2014 were trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
Between 2012 and 2014, the United Nations detected 23,000 victims of sex trafficking 23,000 victims of sex trafficking. While the majority of those victims were female, men were also reported as victims. According to the UN, males reported as trafficked for sexual exploitation between 2012 and 2014 were "concentrated in Western and Southern Europe and the Americas.”
According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, UN Office on Drugs and Crime, women make up a relatively large share of convicted traffickers when compared to most other crimes. In fact, the UN claimed court cases have shown that while the majority of trafficking victims are women and girls, women are also "commonly involved in the trafficking of women and girls, in particular." Specifically, data showed that women are often used to recruit other women into trafficking.
The scourge of child pornographic distribution continues to be eliminated under the Trump Administration, which has result in over 9000 arrests related to human and child-sex trafficking, child molestation, or child pornography since President Trump's inauguration in January of 2017, setting records in the widespread victories against the rampant pedophilia in America.