Mar 15, 2024 · Speaking to a rapt crowd, the federal agent evoked harrowing images of the humans behind the phrase human trafficking: women, children and men, essentially enslaved to provide sexual labor in...

As part of our mission, Bloom operates five homes in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania to help women survivors of sex trafficking and sexual exploitation throughout their journey – helping them to start over, to begin to heal and providing them with the hope to transition to a better life.

Dec 15, 2014 · PHILADELPHIA - Deshawn King, 33, and Daniel Blount, 31, both of Allentown, PA, are charged by Indictment , unsealed today, with running a sex trafficking operation, incorporating heroin as a means of punishing and controlling their victims.

Jan 9, 2024 · "We have a Homeland Security office here in Allentown," said Andersen. "They've identified 50 to 60 new victims in 2023 alone, that are victims of sex trafficking here in the Lehigh Valley."

Nov 30, 2015 · PHILADELPHIA - Deshawn King, 35, of Allentown, PA, was sentenced today to years 293 months in prison for running a sex trafficking operation, incorporating heroin as a means of punishing and controlling the victims.

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Mar 4, 2016 · PHILADELPHIA - Corderro Cody, 28, of Allentown, PA, was sentenced today to 30 years in prison for running a sex trafficking operation, announced United States Attorney Zane David Memeger.

PHILADELPHIA – An Allentown, Pennsylvania, man pleaded guilty Friday to operating a sex trafficking operation with at least a dozen victims, including one minor, after a joint U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and Allentown Police Department investigation.

Sep 20, 2013 · Deshawn King, 33, and Daniel Blount, 31, both of Allentown, are charged with running a sex trafficking operation, using heroin to punish and control their victims.

Feb 26, 2016 · Human sex trafficking isn't just a big city problem or a Hollywood movie plot. It's a very real issue right here in the Lehigh Valley. It's something that happens every day and is only growing....