Since starting in 2006, the FBI’s CARD Team has responded to 201 abductions or missing children reports.
“From January 1 to December 31, 2017, there were 193 identified cases of human trafficking in Illinois reported to the National Human Trafficking Hotline,” according to the 2018 Illinois Human Trafficking Report. “Of those 193 cases, there were a total of 552 trafficked persons and survivors involved.
Two special agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation will give a presentation on the threat of human/sex trafficking in Clinton County and the surrounding area .
7-year-old Streator boy's murder still unsolved 20 years later
Chicago's SA Carrie Landau was highlighted today as a local hero by @MissingKids. Her work with local police to bring home missing kids is a reminder to us all the difference one person can make.
A suburban Chicago woman has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for recruiting and enticing a child to engage in commercial sex acts.
A Chicago man convicted on sex trafficking charges for arranging a sex encounter for a 16-year-old girl that ended in the child's murder was sentenced to 32 years in jail Tuesday.
The United States Attorney's Office announced that two men were sentenced by Senior Judge Rudy Lozano after being found guilty at trial in November, 2009, of sex trafficking and prostitution charges.
Smith, 28, of Milwaukee, Wis., pleaded guilty last year to a federal sex trafficking charge. In addition to the prison sentence, U.S. District Judge John J. Tharp, Jr., on Friday ordered Smith to pay $50,000 in restitution to each of his victims.
A Chicago man has been sentenced to 28 years in federal prison for violently sex trafficking five young victims, including a 15-year-old girl, and kidnapping two of them.
DENNIS WILLIAMS used threats, violence, drugs, and other coercive means to force five victims to engage in commercial sex. Williams often restrained or assaulted the victims to force them to comply and turn over the proceeds to him. Williams also caused a 17-year-old girl, whom he also assaulted repeatedly, to assist him in trafficking the victims. Williams ran his sex trafficking operation out of his Chicago residence and motels in Lansing, Ill., in 2022 and 2023.
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