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In 2017, the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office formed a human-trafficking task force, combining the efforts of local and federal law-enforcement agencies, as well as victim services providers.
Circuit Judge Howard Coates Jr. said one of the defendants in a human-trafficking case faced more than three years in prison if she rejected a plea deal from Palm Beach County prosecutors.
WEST PALM BEACH — One of the first people charged with human trafficking after Palm Beach County announced a crackdown on the crime in 2017 has received a nine-year prison sentence.. Jimmy ...
Human trafficking in Florida is the illegal trade of human beings for sexual exploitation or forced labor as it occurs in the state of Florida. After California and New York, Florida has the most human trafficking cases in the United States. [1] Florida has had cases of sex trafficking, domestic servitude, and forced labor. [2]
The Trafficking Victims Protection Act was renewed in 2003, 2006, 2008 (when it was renamed the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008). The law lapsed in 2011. In 2013, the entirety of the Trafficking Victims Protection was attached as an amendment to the Violence Against Women Act and passed. [2]
This category is for court cases in the United States dealing with the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Pages in category "United States Thirteenth Amendment case law" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
WEST PALM BEACH — A federal judge has sentenced a woman and a man who pleaded guilty in January to the sex trafficking of two teenage girls last year at a Lake Worth Beach motel to nine or more ...
Perry (1916), that the Thirteenth Amendment does not prohibit "enforcement of those duties which individuals owe to the state, such as services in the army, militia, on the jury, etc." [3] Onerous long term alimony and spousal support orders, premised on a proprietary interest retained by former marital partners in one another's persons, have ...