Tag: Human Trafficking

Charges doled out in horrifying case of human trafficking

27Oct

By Fitzpatrick Jones-ThomasNo Comments

Fresh News

Charges doled out in horrifying case of human trafficking

ESSEX, ENGLAND --- The folks behind the gruesome human trafficking ring found in a lorry have all been charged according to police. Police revealed on Saturday that the driver in the case has been charged with 39 counts of manslaughter. In this Oct. 23, 2019, file photo, police forensic officers attend the scene after a truck was found to contain a large number of dead bodies in Thurrock, South England. (UK Pool via AP, File) According to police, the driver has been identified as 25-year-old Maurice Robinson from Craigavon, Northern Ireland. He is due in court this week. All 39 of the bodies found in the truck are believed to be from Asia.

25Nov

By SHKNo Comments

Celebrity

Kim Kardashian keeps promise to send legal team to help Cyntoia Brown

BEVERLY HILLS, CALIF -- Reality star Kim Kardashian-West has kept her promise to send her high powered legal team in to assist Cyntoia Brown. According to Hello Beautiful, Kardashian's legal team is set to arrive in Tennessee in the coming days to meet with Brown for the first time. Kardashian was among the first of celebs to denounce Brown's sentence for killing the man who sold her into sex trafficking. Hello Beautiful notes that Kardashian's most powerful attorney Shawn Holley has been enlisted to get Brown out of prison. Brown, was 14 at the time she was originally sold into sex trafficking. And, she was 16 when she murdered the pimp that ruined her life. She is now 29 and has been in prison for more than a decade.