KENOSHA — The Kenosha County Board of Supervisors has approved a yearlong lease with the state of Wisconsin for a single-family residence in Somers that will be used to house registered sex-offenders undergoing rehabilitation.
Parlors of abuse: Our nation’s sex trafficking gauntlet
Lee Enterprises Public Service Team did a first-of-its-kind analysis of states’ efforts to protect women who are subject to sex trafficking at illicit massage parlors.
David Heath, Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism
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A Lee Enterprises investigation found most states fail to protect vulnerable women and few law enforcement agencies punish the owners of the businesses, let alone go after their support networks.
David Heath, Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism
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Trafficking cases can be complex, leading some jurisdictions to take shortcuts by arresting or disciplining the women for prostitution, which experts say is punishing the victims without solving the problem.
SAMUEL B. PARKER and DAVID HEATH
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Lee Enterprises
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FBI data from local police departments show that only seven percent of human trafficking offenses led to arrests from 2021 to 2023 — 1,344 arrests for 19,225 reported offenses.
David Heath, Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism
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For years YunXi Wang felt helpless, shuffling from one illicit massage parlor to another, coerced into providing massages with so-called "happy endings."
David Heath, Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism
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One detective used an approach that experts now consider a model for tackling the exploitation of immigrant women trapped in the human trafficking trade.
David Heath
Lee Enterprises Public Service Journalism Team
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Their aim, which mirrored their work in intelligence, was to gather data on this secret world and then convince authorities to hold the owners of the businesses accountable.
