Sex Trafficking

San Diego is a hot spot for sex trafficking. Our region ranks 13th in the country, with up to 8,000 victims a year, according to the FBI. That’s not including unreported cases which, according to experts, often involve boys.

The founder of San Diego-based website GirlsDoPorn.com, who had been on the lam for the past three years while facing federal sex trafficking charges, was arrested this week in Spain, the FBI announced Friday.

Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a women’s center where she was serving her probation sentence.

A search of the girl’s phone uncovered messages from the suspect in which he directed her to collect money from customers for sex, according to prosecutors, and contained photos used for the commercial sex ads.

R. Kelly has returned to the federal jail in downtown Chicago ahead of his trial on child pornography and obstruction-of-justice charges, just two weeks after the disgraced R&B star was sentenced in New York to 30 years in prison for racketeering and sex trafficking.

R&B star R. Kelly was sentenced to 30 years in prison Wednesday for using his superstardom to subject young fans — some just children — to systematic sexual abuse. The singer and songwriter, 55, was convicted of racketeering and sex trafficking last year at a trial that gave voice to accusers who had once wondered if their stories were being…

Prince Andrew settled out of court Tuesday with a woman who claimed she was 17 years old when the royal sexually abused her.

Ahead of Super Bowl LVI between the LA Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals, NBCLX political editor Noah Pransky breaks down common myths about the Super Bowl. No, it’s not the major sex trafficking event, and no, it’s not a gold mine for host cities.

Heard the claims that the Super Bowl is the most watched sporting event in the world? It’s not. What about how Americans consume more food on Super Bowl Sunday than any other day of the year? They don’t. Turns out, there are a lot of things said about the Super Bowl that aren’t true. Let’s break down three of...

The judge who oversaw the federal sex trafficking trial of Ghislaine Maxwell says she wants to hear from both the prosecution and defense after the latter attorneys said they’d seek a new trial based on statements made by now two jurors who say they were sexually abused and some of their experiences came up at deliberations.

Ghislaine Maxwell, former British socialite and close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, was found guilty on Wednesday on five charges related to the sex trafficking and abuse of teenage girls.

Apollo Carreon Quiboloy is accused of abusing women and underage girls who allegedly faced threats of abuse and “eternal damnation” unless they catered to him.

After R&B star R. Kelly was found guilty of nine federal counts of racketeering and sex trafficking, attorney Gloria Allred, who represented several of Kelly’s victims, spoke out about the heinous nature of his crimes, including knowingly spreading genital herpes and using child pornography to blackmail his victims into compliance.

A jury found R&B star R. Kelly guilty on Monday on all counts of racketeering and sex trafficking.

The jury of seven men and five women started to deliberate the 54-year-old singer’s case on Friday.

The third week of the R. Kelly sex-trafficking trial in New York City saw more accusers, including a man for the first time, making more disturbing allegations

California’s current anti-loitering code has been on the books since 1995. It was meant to crack down on people engaging in sex work, but the author of the bill that would overturn it, State Senator Scott Wiener, says it has actually just led to discrimination in the transgender community.