- New York Post: Accused St. John’s embezzler allegedly used students as slaves. Cecilia Chang, former Dean of Asian Studies at St. John’s University in New York is “accused of using scholarship students as domestic servants. Chang, 57, allegedly forced students to do her laundry, clean her house, cook and chauffeur her son around. ‘Chang threatened the students and placed them in fear that if they refused to perform these personal services they would lose their scholarships and be unable to attend St. John’s,’ FBI Special Agent Kenneth Hosey wrote in the arrest warrant.”
- WTOP: Mo. girl sues Village Voice Media over sex ads: “A girl who ran away from home and became a prostitute at age 14 is suing Village Voice Media, accusing the newspaper conglomerate of knowingly allowing her pimp to advertise her sexual services on one of its companies’ websites… In her lawsuit, the girl claims that backpage.com, a website similar to Craigslist that is owned by Village Voice Media, knew prostitution was being facilitated on the site but did nothing to stop it.”
- TampaBay.com: “70 percent” of child sex trafficking victims are foster kids: “In 2008, FBI agent Gregory Christopher helped launch a task force aimed at rescuing children from prostitution… [he says], ‘A lot of these kids are foster kids, runaway kids. There’s not a lot of people looking out for them. I’d say about 70 percent or so are foster kids. We work closely with DCF (the Department of Children and Families).'”