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"FBI: Criminal Pursuit," a Wednesday-night show on the cable station Investigation Discovery, devotes its episode this week to a Hartford sex-slave ring whose leaders were convicted in 2007 of forcing girls as young as 14 to turn tricks. The episode "All-American Sex Slaves," part-news report and part-dramatic re-enactment, tells the story of two pimps, Brian Forbes and Dennis "Rahmyti" Paris, and two girls, one from New Hampshire and one from Vermont, who were enslaved by Forbes and Paris and then escaped and testified against them.

The Kisutu Resident Magistrate’s Court in Dar es Salaam yesterday adjourned a human trafficking case against the director of Salex Tannery Company Ltd, Salim Alasad (60), until today because Magistrate Ilvin Mgeta, who presides over at the case, was having other official duties.

Police in southern Italy on Tuesday arrested seven people trafficking suspects of Egyptian and Tunisian nationality. Police said the arrests came amid six-month probe that uncovered an international people-smuggling ring based in Egypt with cells across Italy. The alleged ring had cells operating in Italy's southern regions of Puglia – where police made Tuesday's arrests – in Campania and Sicily as well as in the northern Lombardy region surrounding Milan.

Cook County authorities on Tuesday arrested a Chicago man who allegedly held women against their will, giving them heroin several times a day and forcing them to work as prostitutes. Dajuan Brown, 35, was charged with 10 felony counts of involuntary sexual servitude and one count of aggravated human trafficking, Cook County Sheriff's Department officials said in a news release.

A Modesto man accused of raping a woman last year has been arrested in front of his home. Devon Tenille Bradford, 33, was arrested Monday night on suspicion of rape, human trafficking, and lewd and lascivious acts, according to police Detective Steve Anderson.

Two people among 492 Tamil refugee claimants who landed on the West Coast of Canada two years ago have now been charged with helping to organize the smuggling operation. Lesly Jana Emmanuel and Kunarobinson Christhurajah are accused of organizing, inducing and aiding in the operation that brought the Tamils by boat to British Columbia.

IOM is today hosting a four-day workshop in Beijing for senior Chinese counter-trafficking police and immigration officials to strengthen mechanisms designed to protect and assist victims of human trafficking. The training, which is being attended by over 30 central and provincial officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Public Security and Civil Affairs, is part of IOM’s "Capacity Building for Migration Management (CBMM) in China" project.

A twisted sicko who pimped out a 13-year-old girl on craigslist in the Bronx was sentenced Monday to up to 25 years in prison. Bronx Supreme Court Justice Megan Tallmer threw the book at Sahim Lucas, 34, handing down the maximum sentence for sex trafficking and promoting prostitution.

A man who attempted to abduct a teenage girl in the Midlands intended to sexually assault her, Mullingar Circuit Court has heard. Sentencing began today in the case of Dermot Murphy (42), Atlantic Coast Apartments, Tramore, Co Waterford, who admitted attempting to abduct a 13-year-old girl last July, intending to sexually assault her.

In an unprecedented event, a woman has pleaded guilty to human trafficking in Albuquerque. Heather Brannon, 34, is the first female to admit guilt under the 2008 Human Trafficking Law, according to a news release from the Office of N.M. Attorney General.