"It used to be that you would have situations where some men would go to Bangkok [Thailand] for the sex tours with children. Well, some of them are coming to Atlanta, now."

Largo, Florida - A raid of two Pinellas homes and a business may have connections to human trafficking. The early morning raids found 27 men and women living in cramped conditions.

WEST PALM BEACH — After a tearful Veronica Martinez denied forcing two Honduran sisters into the sex trade in Palm Beach County nightclubs, a judge sentenced her on Wednesday to more than seven years in federal prison.

Pine Manor, Florida -- A tablecloth acts as a makeshift curtain over a cracked, tinted window at the beige Eighth Avenue apartment unit where deputies say a woman enslaved four children. Piles of clothes are visible when peering inside.

MIAMI (AP) -- A South Florida couple has pleaded guilty after a federal human trafficking investigation.

By Albert Ciego - Staff Reporter A police detachment from Belize on special assignment to San Pedro has arrested a 24-year-old Guatemalan woman and charged her with human trafficking.

My name is Maria. I spent part of my life on the Island of Ambergris Caye, San Pedro Town, Belize. I was well known in San Pedro as Montana, my street name.

The human trafficking case now working its way through the federal court system is likely the first of many such cases that will be made in the region, according to investigators.

Forty thousand: that is how many cases of human trafficking were predicted to occur during the World Cup.Zero: that's the actual number of reported cases.

In the months leading up to the World Cup, Minister of Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities Noluthando Mayende-Sibiya expressed fears that human trafficking might turn out to be the "dark side" of the celebrations, but experts denounced the fears, labelling them an exaggeration.

A federal indictment unsealed Tuesday afternoon alleges dozens of Haitian nationals were the victims of human trafficking in 2008 when they were delivered to rural Alachua County and forced to work on area farms.

Joining a global trend, the fundamentalists have added another way to dehumanize women and girls: buying and selling them for prostitution.

"Ignorant" officials are obsessed with punishing victims of trafficking rather than targeting those behind the crime, a report claims.

A coalition of human rights groups says the system for handling victims in the UK is "not fit for purpose". It wants an independent anti-trafficking watchdog to be created to oversee the work of officials.

LARGO — Jury selection began Tuesday morning in the case of Colin Anthony Dyer, a 37-year-old Treasure Island man accused of sexual battery and human trafficking.

Girls at the brothel were beaten and raped. Many were dying of AIDS. Who were their customers? All kind of foreigners. Americans. Thai. Vietnamese. Cambodian.

A recent undercover investigation from ABC news has discovered that for some hunting and fishing tours, sex with children is part of the package deal.

Life is getting even more dangerous for the young girls enslaved in the many, massive brothels across Bangladesh, thanks to a disturbing and growing trend: force-feeding child trafficking victims a steroid used to fatten cattle.