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(46,736 posts) Sat May 11, 2013, 11:40 AM May 2013

Florida human-trafficking ring busted, 16 young women saved, Bondi says

CLEARWATER -- State and local law enforcement officials announced Friday they have broken up a human trafficking and prostitution ring that operated throughout the Tampa Bay area.

The two men accused of running the operation -- Peter Kitt, 41, and Shawn Franklin, 42 --were arrested today. Each was charged with one count of racketeering and one count of conspiracy to commit racketeering.

"These arrests are the first step in bringing justice and peace to the victims of this alleged sex trafficking ring," Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement. "Florida is a zero-tolerance state for human trafficking and any individuals engaged in this abhorrent crime will be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."

The suspects are accused of forcing 16 women into prostitution by sexually assaulting them, beating them and threatening to kill them, law enforcement officials said at a news conference Friday.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-human-trafficking-prostitution-ring-20130511,0,6975336.story

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Florida human-trafficking ring busted, 16 young women saved, Bondi says (Original Post) Baitball Blogger May 2013 OP

What kind of creature would beat, threaten, and terrorize a person Zorra May 2013 #1

Ugh mythology May 2013 #2

This is pretty sick stuff... GetTheRightVote May 2013 #3

Sadly there are many who try very hard to convince others that this really isn't a problem. redqueen May 2013 #4

Zorra

(27,670 posts)

1. What kind of creature would beat, threaten, and terrorize a person

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 12:04 PM

May 2013

into selling their bodies to slimy perverted tricks, so that they could profit from these transaction?

We desperately need to change this country starting from the bottom up and the top down simultaneously and immediately.

mythology

(9,527 posts)

2. Ugh

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 12:11 PM

May 2013

people disgust me. I really wish I could understand what would prompt people to do this, either as the ones forcing women into prostitution, or go to a prostitute when there's a significant chance the woman is forced into it.

GetTheRightVote

(5,287 posts)

3. This is pretty sick stuff...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 01:26 PM

May 2013

hard to believe that it happened but not surprised either. Where are all these sick people coming from?

redqueen

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4. Sadly there are many who try very hard to convince others that this really isn't a problem.

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat May 11, 2013, 01:32 PM

May 2013

That it hardly ever happens, etc.

It's close to overtaking drugs as the most lucrative black market - renting out people - because you can turn a profit on them over and over again. (Some say it has already become more profitable.)

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