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celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 21 Dec 23

Today I read in a newsletter I get about local activity that a 39-year-old man, Freddie Mcclain, from Seattle, Washington was arrested Monday, December 18 here in Boise on several felony charges. He was charged with felony...

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Human Trafficking

celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 17 Sep 22

Tonight I watched "Girl in Room 13" on Lifetime. It was about a young girl who is hoodwinked into meeting up with her old love interest after she had recently gotten away from him and started a new life. He was a drug seller and...

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Another thing I need explaining to me

Fleur @Fleura (34943) • United Kingdom 13 Jan 22

So for months now - or even years - we have heard over and over again that the American Virginia Roberts Giuffre accuses Britain’s Prince Andrew of having sex with her in 2001 when she was 17 and he was 41. Now I haven’t been...

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Human Trafficking - Over 27,000,000 Slaves in the World Today

Deborah-Diane @DeborahDiane (40844) • Laguna Woods, California 15 Oct 16

While walking in Laguna Beach with friends this morning, I encountered a group of demonstrators from a non-profit called A21 who are trying to bring attention to the fact that human trafficking has resulted in the enslavement of...

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Ferguson Activist Charged with Trafficking a 17 Year Old

angel_smiles @Lolaze (5092) • St. Louis, Missouri 19 May 16

Charles Wade, who founded Operation Help or Hush, during the Ferguson Protests is facing charges for human trafficking. He was arrested in April after a 17 year old girl was discovered prostituting out of a hotel room rented in...

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This one is horrible

celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 7 Mar 16

Every 10 seconds a child is trafficked in this very nation and abroad. Approximately 3,287 people are sold, kidnapped and forced into slavery on a daily basis. And, remember, this is just the reported numbers. This is happening...

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organs for money could start another hidden slave trafficking network

Nnaemeka @mydanods (6513) • Nigeria 26 Oct 12

thank god slave trade has been arrested! yet, is it an ambiguous form of slave trafficking if people donate their organs like kidneys for monetary rewards? i feel for those who are sick and need to survive. but, asking for money...

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Buying wives .... ??

Olleenz @Olleenz (3398) • Indonesia 3 Aug 12

Not believe me ?? Watch this link (not mine): http://todayilearned.co.uk/2012/04/09/you-can-buy-a-wife-from-vietnam-for-6000/ 1. You can have it for $ 6.000 2. It will delivered within 90 days 3. If ran away within a...

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Do you think the US have organ trafficking?

defcon505 @defcon505 (919) • United States 25 Jul 09

Apparently there is. A man was buying kidneys from vulnerable people from Israel for $10,000 and then selling it for $160,000. What the heck? Yes its true mate. I thought it was only in poor countries but even in Rich countries...

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Is it Ok to Legalize Marijuana?

Nic @academic2 (7000) • Uganda 1 Jul 08

I do understand that the state of California is at the verge of legalizing marijuana, is it a good idea? Why should this be coming now when America is trying to fight drug trafficking, going by the recent press reports, they have...

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baby trading on eBay .. -_-''

unuzzz @unuzzz (1273) • Indonesia 10 Jun 08

a baby is being traded on ebay ? wow.. although i'm not really familiar with ebay, and so are the people here, but that's what local newspaper said here i read it just before, although it was an old paper, about one week ago i...

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A reason to celebrate?

mummymo @mummymo (23706) 25 Mar 07

I have just seen on the tv that it is 200 years to the day since an act of Parliament made the trafficking of slaves to Britain or any of it's colonies illegal! This was not an end of slavery but was the beginning of the end of a...

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Pot Found in High Heels

epenner @epenner (162) • United States 26 Jan 07

BEIJING, CHINA It gives a whole new meaning to high heels. Customs officers in the southern city of Guangzhou have discovered 60 pounds of marijuana leaves hidden in 215 pairs of shoes abandoned at the airport last year....

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A Grandma's Shocking Advice to her Budding Grandchild ...

oceandefender @oceandefender (23) • Philippines 18 Jan 07

Attending the wake of a neighbor with my elder sister, it became an opportunity for me to refresh ties with our locality's older set. Knowing them since I was a kid, they as well saw me grow up and fellows would love to hear...

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Injustice

megs85 @megs85 (3142) • Australia 31 Oct 06

I believe i hypocritical and just downright wrong that if Australians break laws overseas, for example trafficking and smuggling laws we are subject to the laws of the country we have committed the crime in which are usually much...

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