sex trafficking

The mother of the 13-year-old girl kidnapped and sexually assaulted by a man in North Carolina tracked her daughter’s online activity.

A man is facing a number of felony charges after a 13-year-old girl reported missing in Dallas two weeks ago was rescued from a locked outbuilding at his North Carolina residence.

The founder of San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com, who had been on the lam for the past three years while facing federal sex trafficking charges, was arrested this week in Spain, the FBI announced Friday.

A man and woman are facing charges for the sex trafficking of a 16-year-old girl in Brooklyn, the local district attorney announced Thursday. Kaelin Alexander, a.k.a. Chantz, 23, of Staten Island, was arraigned Thursday in connection to the charges he faces. However, his co-defendent remains unapprehended, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez said. Both Alexander and his co-defendant, who prosecutors...

Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a women’s center where she was serving her probation sentence.

A sprawling human trafficking investigation may have ensnared hundreds of women in Westchester County and parts of New York City, and investigators are asking potential victims to come forward now that they’ve arrested the alleged ringleader — a woman who may have used the business name “Chicas Express,” the FBI and local law enforcement partners announced Tuesday. According to an…

R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking.

In Trenton, New Jersey State Police arrested eight suspects and rescued 12 human trafficking victims who they said were transported to New Jersey from Mexico under the pretense of better employment opportunities.

Several victims of R Kelly’s spoke in court in today, some of them broke down in tears as they spoke. News 4’s Erica Byfield reports what happened in the courtroom toay

R&B singer R. Kelly will be sentenced Wednesday in Brooklyn in the federal sex trafficking case.

R. Kelly’s musical accomplishments have been accompanied by a long history of allegations that he sexually abused women and children. Now the R&B singer could be put away behind bars for a quarter-century or more when he is sentenced Wednesday in a federal courtroom in New York City.

R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse. The singer and songwriter, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were being…

A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to sex trafficking of a child for forcing two 16-year-old girls to engage in prostitution. Steven Bell, 36, of Flatbush, Brooklyn, will not only spend a decade in prison, but was also sentenced to five years’ post-release supervision, Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez announced. Bell will have…

Prince Andrew settled out of court Tuesday with a woman who claimed she was 17 years old when the royal sexually abused her.

Ahead of Super Bowl LVI between the LA Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals, NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky breaks down common myths about the Super Bowl. No, it’s not the major sex trafficking event, and no, it’s not a gold mine for host cities.

Heard the claims that the Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in the world? It’s not. What about how Americans consume more food on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year? They don’t. Turns out, there are a lot of things said about the Super Bowl that aren’t true. Let’s break down three of...

A New York City foster mother and her husband are facing a litany of sex trafficking charges after authorities alleged they forced a series of young women into prostitution – including two girls who had been placed in the woman’s care. Sharice and Kareem Mitchell allegedly trafficked eight women between 2018 and this month, forcing them into sex acts in…

The judge who oversaw the federal sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell says she wants to hear from both the prosecution and defense after the latter attorneys said they’d seek a new trial based on statements made by now two jurors who say they were sexually abused and some of their experiences came up at deliberations.

A previously sealed $500,000 lawsuit settlement in 2009 between Jeffrey Epstein and an American woman that Prince Andrew claims protects him from an ongoing lawsuit was made public Monday. The deal between Epstein and Virginia Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, contained a paragraph that said it protects anyone “who could have been included as a potential defendant” from being…

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell convicted of helping American financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse teenage girls. NBC New York’s Adam Harding reports.