Every year, thousands of women between the ages of 14 and 19, are smuggled through the small town of Tenancingo, Mexico, into the United States and forced into sex work. Many of these women end up in Queens, the new epicenter of prostitution in New York City.
The Secret Service prostitution scandal in Cartagena, Colombia has dominated U.S. headlines and attracted responses from a number of high-profile Americans including the president himself. Obama said last weekend: “If it turns out that some of the allegations made in the press are confirmed, then of course I’ll be angry.” But what do Colombians think of […]
****LANGUAGE ALERT: This story includes graphic descriptions of ritualized intimidation of young women.**** The World’s Gerry Hadden reports on the bust-up of a major prostitution ring in Spain today. Members are accused of smuggling hundreds and possibly thousands of young African women into Europe, often using voodoo rituals to keep them too frightened to escape.