Do Somali gangs still sell girls for sex?
Video dated Nov. 10th, 2010
Somali gangs sell girls, ages 11 to 14, for sex.
They rent them by the week to long-haul truck drivers.
The children travel from:
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN to
Columbus, OH to
Nashville, TN.
“It’s the largest human trafficking case in U.S. history. There were 29 people
indicted for sex trafficking, including minors.”
Video link below is dated April 9th, 2012.
Video dated Feb. 26th, 2013
According to the mayors of the cities mentioned above, crime in their towns is under control and doesn’t exist.
Somali child sex trafficking gangs started transporting underage girls from Minneapolis, MN, in 2000, according to an FBI press release dated Nov. 8th, 2010.
https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/memphis/press-releases/2010/me110810.htm
The FBI stopped investigating Somali girl sex gangs in 2013.
According to Cleveland Federal Court Judge James Gwin, the FBI has failed to investigate child trafficking for over 40 years.
They never followed up on the 75-page report dated May 2019 report called:
“Transnational Crimes among Somali-Americans: Convergences of Radicalization and Trafficking”
It is linked here:
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/252135.pdf
In the case of United States v. Adan, et al. (Zamora, 2016; M.D. Tenn. Case No. 3:10-cr-000260):
none of the 30 gang members pictured below was found guilty
cases against 16 defendants were dismissed
A total of 18 never went to trial.
Of the nine who did:
six were found not guilty by a jury
three were found guilty by a jury but were later acquitted upon appeal.