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Atlanta had the largest sex trade between 2003 and 2007 and 2018. In 2012, the National Human Trafficking Resource Center received 446 calls from Georgia, 103 of which were classified as high-risk; In 2023, Atlanta ranked second only behind Washington, D.C. in human trafficking [15]
More than two years after the U.S. Dept. of Justice indicted 24 people in connection with Operation Blooming Onion, eight defendants plan to plead guilty.
On Tuesday, three defendants pled guilty to charges in Operation Blooming Onion, one of the largest U.S. human trafficking cases ever prosecuted by the USDOJ.
Beginning in November 2018, after receiving a tip from a human trafficking hotline, several agencies within the federal government of the United States began to investigate the operations of agricultural organizations registered under Maria Leticia Patricio, a U.S. citizen who was the registered agent of ten different companies in Georgia. [12]
“Human trafficking in Georgia and nationwide is a crisis,” Ossoff said. “That’s why Sen. Blackburn and I are introducing this bipartisan bill to strengthen support and protections for ...
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U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., and Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday to strengthen support for victims of human trafficking.
Human trafficking is defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime as “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or ...