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Profile of the Sociopath!

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02 Feb

Profile of the Sociopath

This website summarizes some of the common features of descriptions of the behavior of sociopaths.

Glibness and Superficial Charm
Manipulative and Conning They never recognize the rights of others and see their self-serving behaviors as permissible. They appear to be charming, yet are covertly hostile and domineering, seeing their victim as merely an instrument to be used. They may dominate and humiliate their victims.
Grandiose Sense of Self Feels entitled to certain things as “their right.”
Pathological Lying Has no problem lying coolly and easily and it is almost impossible for them to be truthful on a consistent basis. Can create, and get caught up in, a complex belief about their own powers and abilities. Extremely convincing and even able to pass lie detector tests.
Lack of Remorse, Shame or Guilt A deep seated rage, which is split off and repressed, is at their core. Does not see others around them as people, but only as targets and opportunities. Instead of friends, they have victims and accomplices who end up as victims. The end always justifies the means and they let nothing stand in their way.
Shallow Emotions When they show what seems to be warmth, joy, love and compassion it is more feigned than experienced and serves an ulterior motive. Outraged by insignificant matters, yet remaining unmoved and cold by what would upset a normal person. Since they are not genuine, neither are their promises.
Incapacity for Love
Need for Stimulation Living on the edge. Verbal outbursts and physical punishments are normal. Promiscuity and gambling are common.
Callousness/Lack of Empathy Unable to empathize with the pain of their victims, having only contempt for others’ feelings of distress and readily taking advantage of them.
Poor Behavioral Controls/Impulsive Nature Rage and abuse, alternating with small expressions of love and approval produce an addictive cycle for abuser and abused, as well as creating hopelessness in the victim. Believe they are all-powerful, all-knowing, entitled to every wish, no sense of personal boundaries, no concern for their impact on others.
Early Behavior Problems/Juvenile Delinquency Usually has a history of behavioral and academic difficulties, yet “gets by” by conning others. Problems in making and keeping friends; aberrant behaviors such as cruelty to people or animals, stealing, etc.
Irresponsibility/Unreliability Not concerned about wrecking others’ lives and dreams. Oblivious or indifferent to the devastation they cause. Does not accept blame themselves, but blames others, even for acts they obviously committed.
Promiscuous Sexual Behavior/Infidelity Promiscuity, child sexual abuse, rape and sexual acting out of all sorts.
Lack of Realistic Life Plan/Parasitic Lifestyle Tends to move around a lot or makes all encompassing promises for the future, poor work ethic but exploits others effectively.
Criminal or Entrepreneurial Versatility Changes their image as needed to avoid prosecution. Changes life story readily.

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Student organization looks to fight human trafficking problems!

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06 Dec

Group holds campus awareness events, lobbies with state government to change legislation
Sara Dorn, Chief News Writer
December 04, 2011 According to a CNN estimate, between 10 to 30 million people are enslaved worldwide, and the University of Dayton New Abolitionist Movement organization is working to combat that crime.

Alex Kreidenweis and Alisa Bartel, both public administration MBA students, said they founded the organization through the human rights studies department in 2009 as undergraduates. Since that time, they have lobbied six times at the Ohio Statehouse, spread awareness at four local high schools, organized awareness events and collaborated with similar organizations in the Dayton area.

Kreidenweis said he and Bartel, both 2010 graduates, were compelled to start the group when they recognized the lack of awareness surrounding the issue, as demonstrated at the 2009 Dayton Human Trafficking Accords hosted at UD.

“What we found out was people were coming [to meetings at the accords] just to find out what trafficking was – policy makers, social service workers, police – people who should know what it is,” Kreidenweis said. “… And that was a critical breaking point.”

The U.S. Department of State defines human trafficking as “an umbrella term for activities involved when someone obtains or holds a person in compelled service.” Forms of trafficking range from debt bondage to child sex trafficking.

Bartel said the dynamics of a student organization are ideal for fighting human trafficking.

“We have a lot of resources on our hands through our professors, a network of people here and we’re young and passionate,” Bartel said. “If we use that passion and combine it with the resources we have and the expertise of our faculty, we can do a lot.”

Jemima Homawoo, a senior international studies and political science major, said she is a former vice president of the New Abolitionist Movement and has been a member since it began.

“I always kind of knew about human trafficking, but I didn’t know the extent,” Homawoo said. “I heard a trafficking victim from Dubai speak about her experience, and I actually lived in Dubai, so it was really powerful.”

Kreidenweis said the organization’s focus recently has turned to the 2011 reauthorization of the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act. Originally signed in 2000, the act appropriates funds to efforts to end international human trafficking. It is required to be reauthorized every three years by Congress.

The law has been amended in committees in both the Senate and House of Representatives and reported to both the full House and the full Senate as two separate bills: HR 2830 and SB 1301. If the majority leadership on either side does not introduce it for a vote, the program will receive no new funding, according to the text of the bills.

“We’ve organized a couple call-ins and write-ins to Congressmen,” Kreidenweis said. “We’re really just trying to get laypeople to write to their Congressmen.”

Kreidenweis said the organization’s first call to legislative action was lobbying for the passage of Senate Bill 235, an Ohio law that made human trafficking a felony when it was passed in December 2010.

Twice, professor Anthony Talbott’s political science course focused on human trafficking joined the New Abolitionist Movement to lobby at the Ohio Statehouse. The organization frequently works with the class.

“We formed NAM right at about the same time that SB 235 was proposed, so that gave us some great direction for action,” Kreidenweis said. “We started almost immediately and it was a critical piece. … It was one of our most prolific achievements.”

Kreidenweis said the organization meets every Wednesday at 10 p.m. in the Women’s Center in Alumni Hall, and new members are welcome.

The organization will be hosting a fair-trade chocolate sale in Kennedy Union Plaza this week through Friday, Dec. 9, according to minutes from a recent meeting.

For more information, contact the organization at moc.liamgnull@tnemevomtsinoitilobaweneht.

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Vatican Christmas Shocker! Pope says child rape isn’t that bad, was normal back in his day!

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30 Nov

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.

In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.

“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.

“It was maintained – even within the realm of Catholic theology – that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than’ and a ‘worse than’. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”

The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church.

Asking how abuse exploded within the Church, the Pontiff called on senior clerics “to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred” and to help victims heal through a better presentation of the Christian message.

“We cannot remain silent about the context of these times in which these events have come to light,” he said, citing the growth of child pornography “that seems in some way to be considered more and more normal by society” he said.

But outraged Dublin victim Andrew Madden last night insisted that child abuse was not considered normal in the company he kept.

Mr Madden accused the Pope of not knowing that child pornography was the viewing of images of children being sexually abused, and should be named as such.

He said: “That is not normal. I don’t know what company the Pope has been keeping for the past 50 years.”

Pope Benedict also said sex tourism in the Third World was “threatening an entire generation”.

Angry abuse victims in America last night said that while some Church officials have blamed the liberalism of the 1960s for the Church’s sex abuse scandals and cover-up catastrophes, Pope Benedict had come up with a new theory of blaming the 1970s.

“Catholics should be embarrassed to hear their Pope talk again and again about abuse while doing little or nothing to stop it and to mischaracterise this heinous crisis,” said Barbara Blaine, the head of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,

“It is fundamentally disturbing to watch a brilliant man so conveniently misdiagnose a horrific scandal,” she added.

“The Pope insists on talking about a vague ‘broader context’ he can’t control, while ignoring the clear ‘broader context’ he can influence – the long-standing and unhealthy culture of a rigid, secretive, all-male Church hierarchy fixated on self-preservation at all costs. This is the ‘context’ that matters.”

The latest controversy comes as the German magazine Der Spiegel continues to investigate the Pope’s role in allowing a known paedophile priest to work with children in the early 1980s.

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3 men indicted, 4th arrested in RGC teen sex trafficking case!

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15 Apr

By JARED TAYLOR, The Monitor
RIO GRANDE CITY — Federal agents arrested a fourth man the day after an indictment against three others in a teen sex trafficking case was unsealed in federal court.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents arrested Antonio Martinez Villarreal, 38, on Wednesday in Rio Grande City.

Martinez joins three other men indicted on human trafficking and smuggling charges in U.S. District Court in McAllen.

Juan Antonio Garcia Garay, 31, Juan Ignacio Chavarria, 25, and Jorge Eutacio Martinez Mendoza, 46, all were named in an eight-count federal indictment filed Tuesday.

The federal probe came after Rio Grande City police uncovered the suspected trafficking ring during a March 17 traffic stop.

Police pulled over a green Jeep Cherokee with Garcia, Chavarria and a 13-year-old girl inside. Something seemed strange with the girl, authorities said.

“They noticed the female was holding something under her shirt,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Special Agent Roger Brinlee testified at a court hearing last month.

The girl was holding a .38-caliber revolver handed to her by Chavarria, the special agent said.

The girl told investigators she’d come to the U.S. with two others to work as a prostitute. But after she arrived at a Rio Grande City apartment, the men allegedly held the girl and two other teenagers against their will and sexually abused them.

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Ask the Super Bowl Host Committee to Stand Up and Protect Children!

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06 Feb

Targeting: Bill Lively (President and CEO), Tony Fay (VP of Communications), Larry McCoy (CFO), see more…

Started by: Melissa Snow

The trafficking of children for sale at the Super Bowl is well documented. Texas Attorney General Abbott is taking a stand and has prepared a task force to identify and respond to traffickers who plan to sell children at the Super Bowl. However, it is not enough to expect law enforcement and victim advocates to bear the entire burden of responding to this issue, which is expected to include many victims. In support of the efforts of the task force, we are requesting the Super Bowl Host Committee embrace a proactive approach with community members by endorsing the “I’m Not buying It” campaign, which would raise awareness and deter the buying of children during the Super Bowl.

As evidenced by the tremendous amount of work and money the Host Committee has channeled into Slant 45, clearly improving the lives of children is a priority. Countless children in the DFW region have benefitted by the commitment and opportunities provided by this program.

However, the children trafficked to DFW to meet the demand of the Super Bowl are being left to fend for themselves. According to the Dallas Police Department children exploited through sex trafficking have an average life expectancy is just seven short years. The average age a child is tricked and trapped in sexual slavery is just 13 years old. These children are beaten, brutalized and tortured for the profit and pleasure of others.

This Super Bowl Host Committee’s hard work has turned the North Texas Region into a showcase with a record number of million-dollar sponsors, state-of-the-art infrastructure and events that appeal across audiences. They’ve set the standard for the Super Bowl experience.

Now, let’s join together and ask the Host Committee to take a stand and set the standard for all Super Bowl Host Committees to come. The Host Committee has the biggest megaphone to prevent the buying and selling of American children during this year’s festivities. Law enforcement, legislators, non-profits, churches and business all are stepping up to the plate to stop this horrific abuse of our children. It’s time that the Host Committee faces the reality that children will be trafficked to North Texas and answer the question – What role will they play in preventing the sex trafficking of children during the Super Bowl?

DFW-based Traffick911 is leading a comprehensive game plan to protect American children. Local, national and international organizations have joined forces with Traffick911 in the I’m Not Buying It campaign. This Super Bowl Host Committee has proven it has the power and influence to make history. Join me in asking the Super Bowl Host Committee to endorse and fund the “I’m Not buying it” campaign to protect and defend children during the Super Bowl!!

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Woman fighting sex slavery named CNN Hero of the Year!

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22 Nov

Los Angeles, California (CNN) — A woman whose group has rescued more than 12,000 women and girls from sex slavery has been named the 2010 CNN Hero of the Year.

Anuradha Koirala was chosen by the public in an online poll that ran for eight weeks on CNN.com. CNN’s Anderson Cooper revealed the result at the conclusion of the fourth annual “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.”

“Human trafficking is a crime, a heinous crime, a shame to humanity,” Koirala said earlier in the evening after being introduced as one of the top 10 CNN Heroes of 2010. “I ask everyone to join me to create a society free of trafficking. We need to do this for all our daughters.”

Koirala was introduced by actress Demi Moore, who along with her husband, Ashton Kutcher, created DNA, The Demi and Ashton Foundation, which aims to eliminate child sex slavery worldwide.

“Every day this woman confronts the worst of what humanity has to offer,” Moore said of Koirala. “She says, ‘Stop. Stop selling our girls.’ By raiding brothels and patrolling the India-Nepal border, she saves girls from being sold into the sex trade, where they are being repeatedly raped for profit, tortured and enslaved.

“Since 1993, she has helped rescue more than 12,000 women and girls. Through her organization Maiti Nepal, she has provided more than a shelter for these girls and young women, she has created a home. It is a place for them to heal, go to school, learn a skill, and for some who are infected with HIV/AIDS, it is the place where they can spend their days surrounded by love.”

Koirala will receive $100,000 to continue her work with Maiti Nepal, in addition to the $25,000 awarded to each of the top 10 Heroes honored Saturday night.

“This is another responsibility to me to work with all your support,” Koirala said to the audience after being named Hero of the Year. “We have to end this heinous crime. Please join hands with me to end this crime. … Please try to respect the youth. They are the ones who are going to build the next generation. Thank you so much.”

Koirala’s speech capped the gala event, which was taped before an audience of nearly 5,000 and premieres Thanksgiving night on the global networks of CNN.

The show opened with a salute to the 33 Chilean miners and five of the people who rescued them last month after the miners spent 69 days underground.

“For 69 days we were amazed by these 33 brave miners,” Cooper said in welcoming the miners onto the Shrine stage. “Their ordeal was unthinkable; their rescue, unbelievable. No one has ever been trapped underground so deep for so long and survived.

“They endured a nightmare, experienced a miracle, and in the end became each others’ brothers and heroes. On behalf of CNN Heroes, we salute all 33 Chilean miners.”

After the miners sang the Chilean national anthem, two of them — speaking through a translator and holding the Chilean flag — expressed their appreciation.

“We want to thank the world, and we want to thank God for your prayers,” Luis Urzua told the audience in Spanish.

“Our families suffered. Our children suffered, too. But thanks to the prayers of the whole world, we could come out of this difficulty,” Mario Sepulveda added.

“Some of our rescuers are here with us tonight,” Urzua said. “Thank you for bringing us home. You are our heroes.”

CNN brought the miners and their rescuers to the United States to attend the tribute show. The five rescuers were selected to represent the many thousands whose talent and effort led to the dramatic rescue.

The top 10 CNN Heroes, chosen by a blue-ribbon panel from an initial pool of more than 10,000 nominations from more than 100 countries, were each honored with a documentary tribute and introduced by a celebrity presenter.

The program also featured performances by Grammy Award-winners Bon Jovi, John Legend and Sugarland.

Rock legends Bon Jovi performed “What Do You Got?,” a new song from their greatest hits album, which came out earlier this month. Legend performed “Wake Up Everybody” along with hip-hop artist Common and R&B singer Melanie Fiona. Sugarland performed “Stand Up,” a new song from their album “The Incredible Machine,” which made its debut in October.

All three performances echoed the spirit of the CNN Heroes campaign, which salutes everyday people whose extraordinary accomplishments are making a difference in their communities and beyond.

Celebrity presenters included Halle Berry, Demi Moore, Jessica Alba, Kid Rock, LL Cool J, Renee Zellweger, Gerard Butler, Kiefer Sutherland, Marisa Tomei, Aaron Eckhart and Holly Robinson Peete.

“CNN Heroes has illustrated the best of humanity through the telling of stories of selfless acts of kindness, courage and perseverance” said Jim Walton, president of CNN Worldwide. “We are honored to bring these Heroes the recognition they so deserve. It is a program the entire CNN family is proud of and excited to share with our viewers on Thanksgiving night.”

Again this year, producer/director Joel Gallen served as executive producer of “CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute.” Among his credits, Gallen produced telethon events supporting victims of the Haiti earthquake, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and Hurricane Katrina. He won an Emmy Award and a Peabody Award for “America: A Tribute to Heroes.”

Preceding the tribute broadcast, CNN and HLN will simulcast a red carpet special, “Showbiz Tonight @ CNN Heroes,” at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT. Hosted by A.J. Hammer and Brooke Anderson, the special will feature exclusive coverage of celebrity arrivals and interviews, as well as a celebrity-hosted social media suite tapping into the worldwide online passion and interest in the Heroes event.

Here are the 2010 top 10 CNN Heroes in alphabetical order:

Guadalupe Arizpe De La Vega founded a hospital in Juarez, Mexico, that cares for about 900 people daily — regardless of their ability to pay. Despite the escalating violence in the city, the 74-year-old travels there several times a week to make sure residents get the care they need. Learn more about Guadalupe

Susan Burton was once caught in a cycle of addiction and incarceration. Today, her nonprofit A New Way of Life Reentry Project provides sober housing and other support services to formerly incarcerated women in California. Learn more about Susan

With her weight-loss challenge, Shape Up Vicksburg, Linda Fondren is helping her Mississippi hometown battle the bulge. Through free fitness activities and nutrition classes, residents have lost nearly 15,000 pounds to date. Learn more about Linda

Anuradha Koirala is fighting to prevent the trafficking and sexual exploitation of Nepal’s women and girls. Since 1993, she and her group, Maiti Nepal, have helped rescue and rehabilitate more than 12,000 victims. Learn more about Anuradha

Narayanan Krishnan brings hot meals and dignity to India’s homeless and destitute — 365 days per year — through his nonprofit Akshaya Trust. Since 2002, he has served more than 1.2 million meals. Learn more about Narayanan

Since 1992, Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow has dedicated his life to helping people in need. Today, his program, Mary’s Meals — run from a tin shed in the Scottish highlands — provides free daily meals to more than 400,000 children around the world. Learn more about Magnus

Harmon Parker is using his masonry skills to save lives. Since 1997 he has helped build 45 footbridges over perilous rivers in Kenya, protecting people from flash floods and predatory animals. The bridges also connect isolated villagers to valuable resources. Learn more about Harmon

Aki Ra is helping to make his native Cambodia safer by clearing land mines — many of which he planted years ago as a child soldier. Since 1993, he and his Cambodian Self Help Demining organization have cleared about 50,000 mines and unexploded weapons. Learn more about Aki Ra

Evans Wadongo, 23, invented a way for rural families in Kenya to replace smoky kerosene and firelight with solar power. Through his Use Solar, Save Lives program, he’s distributed an estimated 10,000 free solar lanterns. Learn more about Evans

Since 2005, Texas home builder Dan Wallrath has given injured Iraq and Afghanistan veterans homes of their own — mortgage-free. He and his Operation Finally Home team have five new custom homes under construction. Learn more about Dan

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Bishop Eddie Long | Third lawsuit filed!

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22 Sep

3:14 p.m. Wednesday, September 22, 2010

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By Megan Matteucci

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A third lawsuit has been filed against Bishop Eddie Long, alleging he coerced a man to have sex with him.

John Spink moc.cjanull@knipsj The entryway of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church at 6400 Woodrow Rd in Lithonia.

John Spink moc.cjanull@knipsj With New Birth Missionary Baptist Church in the background, church member Gillian Engram returns to her car Wednesday after dropping her daughter off at school. Engram said members have been driving around the parking lot praying from their cars over the Lithonia mega church.

The third suit was filed Wednesday afternoon in DeKalb County Superior Court, said a spokeswoman for attorney B.J. Bernstein.

Jamal Paris, a member of New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, filed the suit against Long, the church and the Longfellows Youth Academy Inc.

Long was not immediately available for comment Wednesday, but has scheduled a news conference for Thursday morning. On Tuesday, Long denied similar accusations.

Maurice Robinson and Anthony Flagg filed suits in DeKalb Tuesday alleging Long coerced them into having sex in exchange for trips, cars and cash. The plaintiffs say Long began having inappropriate relations with them when they were 16. They are seeking a trial by jury and unspecified damages. Long adamantly denies the allegations.

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Human Trafficking in California

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18 Jan

By Ralph E. Stone

January 11, 2010

By proclamation, President Obama proclaimed January 2010 as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month. Across the country, anti-trafficking organizations are hosting activities, from film screenings to training on community response efforts.

In 1865, the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified abolishing slavery in the United States: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Yet, over a hundred years later, thousands of human beings are trafficked every year and forced to become sex slaves, domestic workers, child soldiers, or agricultural laborers.

The statistics are startling: 27 million enslaved people worldwide; a $12 billion industry growing faster than drugs or arms; 600 to 800 thousand trafficked across international borders each year; and about 80 percent are women and children.

In 2000, human trafficking came out of the shadows in the Bay Area. Berkeley landlord and restaurateur Lakireddy Bali Reddy was charged with smuggling minors into the U.S. and keeping them as sex slaves. (He was later sentenced to more than eight years in prison and ordered to pay $2 million in restitution.) Were it not for the accidental death of a 17-year-old girl brought here from India with her younger sister – the result of a malfunctioning heater in their small Bancroft Way apartment – that case, which involved at least 25 girls over a period of 15 years, might never have come to light.

California is a top destination for human traffickers. Our extensive international border, major harbors and airports, large economy and growing population, large immigrant population, and industries make it a prime target for traffickers. This crime causes harm to its victims, but secondary consequences of human trafficking can severely affect California communities. The link between human trafficking and other criminal activities such as human smuggling, drug trafficking, money laundering and organized crime, increases the potential for other violent crimes. The impact of human trafficking on surrounding communities includes increased crime and gang activity, child exploitation, public health problems and depressed wages.

In October 2000, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 was enacted. Prior to that, no comprehensive Federal law existed to protect victims of trafficking or to prosecute their traffickers.

California too has enacted a number of laws to combat human trafficking. In 2005, the California Trafficking Victims Protection Act was enacted, which made human trafficking a felony and provides for restitution to its victims; and the Human Trafficking Collaboration and Training Act, which requires law-enforcement officers to be trained in responding to human trafficking. California also established the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force to conduct a thorough review of California’s response to human trafficking and report its findings and recommendations to the Governor, Attorney General and Legislature. In October 2007, the Task Force issued its report, “Human Trafficking in California.”

In 2008, a California law provides treatment and counseling to victims of human trafficking. Many victims of human trafficking are undocumented foreigners who fear deportation if they cooperate with law enforcement agencies. Another law gives victims of human trafficking the right to request, and upon that request require, that his or her name not become a matter of public record. The law also requires law enforcement officials to use due diligence in identifying human trafficking victims regardless of citizenship status to ensure that all victims of these terrible crimes are protected.

In October 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law, a bill which increases the penalty for human traffickers. The new changes include:

- Adding “abduction or procurement by fraudulent inducement for prostitution,” i.e. sex trafficking, to the definition of “criminal profiteering activity.” Existing California law provides for the forfeiture of property and proceeds acquired through a pattern of criminal profiteering activity, so the new law will also now provide for the possibility of forfeiture of property and proceeds acquired through sex trafficking.

- In cases involving “human trafficking of minors for purposes of prostitution or lewd conduct,” or “abduction or procurement by fraudulent inducement for prostitution,” money and proceeds from property forfeited will be placed in a fund to be available for appropriation to fund child sexual exploitation and child sexual abuse victim counseling centers and prevention programs; 50% of such funds are to be granted to “community-based organizations that serve minor victims of human trafficking.”

- An increase in the maximum amount of additional authorized fine from $5000 to $20,000 for any person convicted of procurement of a child under 16, or abduction for the purpose of prostitution of a person under 18. 50 percent of such fines collected will also go to community-based organizations that serve minor victims of human trafficking.

To help you learn more about the issues surrounding human trafficking, the following films are recommended: “Lilia 4-Ever,” a Swedish film depicting the struggles of Lilja, a16-year-old girl living in an unidentified ex-Soviet republic; “Children for Sale,” a Dateline documentary shot by a film crew that went undercover with a human rights group to uncover sex trafficking in Cambodia; “Promised Land,” a film by Amos Gitai about human trafficking from Eastern Europe to Israel; “Trading Women,” this film investigates the trade in minority girls and women out of Burma, Yunnan and Laos into Thailand; and “The Day My God Died,” a documentary about young girls whose lives have been shattered by the child sex trade in Nepal and India.

“Despite the development of even the most comprehensive services, the best way to assist survivors of trafficking is to prevent them from becoming victims. Prevention must take a dual approach, reducing both supply-side factors in countries where trafficking originates and demand-side factors in countries of destination.” (Rachel Shigekane, The Human Rights Center University of California, Berkeley)

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