SAN DIEGO – A teen describes her entry into local sex trafficking, and how she was able to turn her life around.

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SAN DIEGO – A federal grand jury in San Diego handed up an 11-count indictment charging three men with transporting and harboring undocumented immigrants for prostitution, a prosecutor announced Wednesday.

Adrian Zitlalpopoca-Hernandez, 32, faces two counts each of sex trafficking by force, persuasion or coercion to travel to engage in prostitution, harboring aliens for prostitution and bringing illegal aliens into the United States for financial gain.

Eduardo Aguila-Tecuapacho, 25, and Carlos Tzompantzi-Serrano, 35, are each charged with one count of harboring aliens for purposes of prostitution and one count of harboring illegal aliens, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher Tenorio. (more…)

SAN DIEGO – A young woman who helped recruit girls to pose for racy photos, which were then placed on craigslist.com to solicit prostitution, was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison.

Jessica King, 20, pleaded guilty Jan. 20 to conspiracy to engage in sex trafficking of children and coercion and enticement of a juvenile into prostitution.

Her co-conspirators, Christopher Black and Jordan Arnold, both 21, pleaded guilty on the same day to the same charge.

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Malaysia’s prime minister vowed to investigate a scathing report by U.S. lawmakers saying thousands of Myanmar refugees were handed over to human traffickers with some ending up working in Thai brothels.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations said in the report that illegal Myanmar migrants deported from Malaysia were often forced to work in brothels, fishing boats and restaurants across the border in Thailand if they had no money to purchase their freedom.

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Since 2008, six major human-trafficking cases have been cracked in which at least 40 persons were held including different airline staffers, passport officers, agents and women from well-to-do families, who opted illegal means to fly out of the city.

The two-month-old cell has also busted a case in March this year by arresting four persons including two Air India employees and an agent Imtiyaz Raheem Maradia, who is involved in many such cases. (more…)