A defense attorney invoked Winston Churchill and Atticus Finch in his opening statement Tuesday on behalf of cult founder Keith Raniere, hours before a woman testified that she had been extorted into sending nude photos to the leader of the purported self-help group NXIVM.
Read moreEight men and four women were chosen as jurors Monday for the upcoming trial of cult founder Keith Raniere, a leader of the purported self-help group NXIVM who is accused of running a sex-slavery ring within the secretive organization.
Read moreA lawsuit seeking to represent any woman with a claim against Harvey Weinstein can proceed on sex-trafficking grounds, a judge ruled Thursday, as he dramatically shrank the scope of an action trying to treat the disgraced movie producer and various companies like a mob organization.
Read moreAttorneys for Harvey Weinstein made little headway Wednesday in their bid to nix sex-trafficking claims against the disgraced movie mogul.
Read moreThe former president and co-founder of NXIVM, a self-help group labeled by prosecutors as a pyramid scheme-turned-sex slavery ring, pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges.
Read moreA Texas judge who told jurors they had mistakenly convicted a woman charged with sex trafficking because God told him she is innocent was censured for those statements by a state judicial ethics commission, the board announced Monday.
Read moreThe mother of a Tennessee girl sued Facebook on Wednesday, claiming the social media giant allowed her then-15-year-old daughter to be groomed and extorted by human traffickers who kidnapped her and sold her to hundreds of sexual predators while she was locked in a hotel bathroom for 10 days.
Read moreDenying that a Hollywood “casting couch” can be considered a commercial sex act, defense attorneys urged a federal judge Wednesday to fast-track their appeal of a trafficking claim against disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein.
Read moreA judge who ruled that an aspiring actress can use sex-trafficking laws to sue Harvey Weinstein will hear attorneys argue whether his decision can be appealed before trial.
Read moreFighting for resentencing by another judge, a lawyer for a sex trafficker argued at the 11th Circuit on Wednesday that the trial court was unfair in ordering more than twice the prison time sought by the government.
Read moreTennessee Governor Bill Haslam granted clemency Monday to a woman who claims she was a victim of sex trafficking when she killed a man at age 16.
Read moreA woman from South Los Angeles faces a mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison after pleading guilty Monday to sex trafficking by force — conduct that included forcing a victim to get Williams’ name tattooed on her face.
Read moreCivil rights groups and a digital library claim the Trump administration’s new law targeting websites where sex solicitations are posted is unconstitutional and the most comprehensive censorship of online speech in decades.
Read moreA federal judge in Brooklyn denied a bail package Tuesday for accused sex trafficker Keith Raniere, partly because it did not identify the trustee of the proposed $10 million bond.
Read moreThe Justice Department’s Office for Victims of Crime boosted its budget this year but nixed funding for a vital legal service that helps human trafficking survivors move forward: expungement of prostitution charges.
Read moreVying to hold Harvey Weinstein liable under an expansion of sex-trafficking statutes, an attorney for two of the producer’s accusers told a federal judge Wednesday that “Harvey Weinstein is a pimp in a tuxedo.”
Read moreTexas authorities said Thursday that Backpage.com will plead guilty to human trafficking and its leader will plead guilty to money laundering, one week after the classified ad website was seized by federal officials.
Read moreFederal prosecutors have charged the creators of the website Backpage.com, one of the largest web forums for classified ads, with facilitating prostitution and conspiracy to launder money in a 93-count indictment unsealed Monday in Arizona.
Read moreFederal law enforcement authorities are in the process of seizing online classified site Backpage.com and its affiliated websites.
Read moreJudges from across the country Tuesday discussed best practices for helping child sex trafficking victims caught up in the juvenile justice system, which they said should not include detention as a means to keep children safe.
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