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Airline Crews to Ground Sex Traffickers Heading to Super Bowl

DALLAS -- Sex traffickers who plan to come to Dallas to conduct business during the Super Bowl weekend might find themselves grounded if they travel by plane. Employees from at least five airlines will attend a special training session this week to learn how to get better at recognizing sex traffickers among travelers and...

Italy Plans to Denude Forest to Fight Prostitution

(Oct. 17) -- An Italian region struggling with policing the sex trade along a heavily wooded road has come up with a novel solution: Just chop down the forest. According to the Guardian newspaper, the regional government of Abruzzo in central Italy has tried 24-hour patrols, raids and cameras to curb the rampant sex trade...

Sex Trafficking in Spain Linked to Prostitution Ads

(July 22) -- A week after Spain's prime minister angered many of the country's newspaper publishers by calling for a ban on lucrative prostitution ads, one of the few national dailies that refuse to take such ads has launched a three-day front-page investigation linking the ads to sex traffickers. The publication 20...

Sex Trafficking Investigation Focuses on van der Sloot

(July 19) -- Joran van der Sloot, the Dutch native charged with killing a Peruvian woman and extorting money from the mother of missing U.S. teen Natalee Holloway, may have even more legal problems ahead. Earlier this month, the National Enquirer reported on van der Sloot's alleged involvement in sex trafficking in...