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Human trafficking, particularly in the context of sex trafficking, represents a grotesque violation of human rights that transcends borders and societal norms. It involves the recruitment, transportation, and exploitation of individuals through coercion, deception, or abuse of power. Victims are often lured with false promises of employment, education, or a better life, only to find themselves trapped in a cycle of abuse and degradation.

Incisiva y frontal, Saskia Niño de Rivera se adentra en el inframundo del abuso sexual infantil y el proceder de los victimarios, señala por qué no se denuncian estos delitos y advierte sobre el comercio sexual de niñas y mujeres utilizadas como mercancía. Para definir la esencia de pederastas, pedófilos y abusadores recurre a la opinión de expertas en psicotrauma y salud mental, quienes a su vez revelan cómo el daño lacera los sentimientos de los afectados.

Landon's Cry is the harrowing true story of a boy named Landon and his terrifying experiences with satanic ritual abuse that will affect him for life. Charter into territory few are willing to see. Peek behind the dark corners and edges of a world that are often masked and hidden from the light.

The number-one best-selling “master of narrative journalism” (New York Times) and author of Black Hawk Down presents a compelling collection of true crime stories.

In Hunting Ghislaine, legendary investigative journalist John Sweeney uncovers the truth behind this fairy tale story in reverse. But this is no fairy tale. Hunting Ghislaine sets out the other side of the story and it's one of the darkest you will ever hear. Ghislaine's father, Robert Maxwell, was a sadist, a war criminal, a monster. His cruelty deformed Ghislaine Maxwell long before she met Jeffrey Epstein. Her one-time lover was convicted for being a paedophile. So Ghislaine's life has been spent serving not one monster but two.

Sophie Crockett spent most of her childhood suffering from crippling anxiety. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, she became a virtual prisoner in her own home, afraid to venture outside. After battling with depression, eating disorders and self-harm, Sophie had the courage to re-enter society in her late teens.

Dive into two dark stories of crime and murder from best-selling author James Patterson, and can be seen on ID, inspired by true crime horrors where murder isn't always the worst thing that can happen to you.

A woman who was sexually abused by her own father and later gave birth to his daughter is now running a support group which spans 30 countries and has tens of thousands of supporters. Stace Don, now 36, was taken into foster care as a baby after being neglected by her parents. For seven years, she lived an idyllic life, believing her foster parents were her real parents. But a chance encounter with her natural father, Nigel Taylor, shattered her happiness and she was later moved from her foster home, away from the family she loved.

Aged 12, Sam Walker Roberts was groomed online by a teacher who later sexually assaulted and raped her. Weeks later, she fell into the clutches of a paedophile ring and was raped repeatedly by a gang, only one of whom faced justice. Devastated at the failures in the judicial system, Sam launched: ‘You have not defeated me’, a campaign which demanded more support and understanding for grooming victims.

EL TRUE CRIME DE MAYOR CRECIMIENTO EN ESPAÑA. Los procesos judiciales más mediáticos e impactantes de la historia reciente: Caso Pelicot . Caso Bruno Hernández . Caso Cheryl Araujo. Caso Eva Blanco . Caso Daniel Sancho . Caso Luca Varani. Casos Wanninkhof y Carabantes . Caso Aileen Wuornos. Caso Amanda Knox. Caso Joaquín Ferrándiz. Una mujer sentada en el banquillo frente a 51 hombres. Los mira cara a cara con firmeza. Han sido sus agresores sexuales durante más de diez años. Es el primer juicio de violación múltiple por sumisión química jamás visto en la historia. Es el caso Pelicot.

A layered saga, Vegas Concierge spans more than a decade and includes world-famous stars, violent “gorilla” pimps, crooked and honest cops, struggling journalists, ambitious FBI agents, influential casino executives, and high-profile political figures. It tells the inside story of this failed investigation and its countless twists, moving from the luxury hotel rooms of the Las Vegas Strip to the inner offices of the Las Vegas police, to the newsrooms of some of Nevada’s biggest news organizations.

The crime of rape sizzles like a lightning strike. It pounces, flattens, destroys. A person stands whole, and in a moment of unexpected violence, that life, that body is gone. Award-winning writer and public health executive Michelle Bowdler's memoir indicts how sexual violence has been addressed for decades in our society, asking whether rape is a crime given that it is the least reported major felony, least successfully prosecuted, and fewer than three percent of rapists ever spend a day in jail.

George Pell was a Ballarat boy who studied at Oxford and rose through the Catholic Church ranks to become adviser to Pope Francis and Vatican treasurer. He has been expelled from the Pope's inner circle of trusted cardinals. As an outspoken defender of church orthodoxy, supported and championed by the powerful, Pell's ascendancy was remarkable and seemingly unstoppable.

In this brilliant portrayal of lovers who kill and the men and women who are their unwitting victims, Ann Rule expertly analyzes shocking, headline-making cases, unmasking the motives that transform sex and passion into deadly crimes.

Everyone is afraid of the boogie man. Society has been conditioned to view “real rape” as that which is perpetrated on a virtuous woman by a horrible, psychotic stranger. The truth is, you are more likely to be sexually assaulted by someone you know. People turn to victim blaming to retain some measure of control and to help conceal the harsh reality that the boogie man could actually be anyone.

In Curated True Crime Volume #12: Deadly Stalkers you'll learn about some of the most chilling, premeditated and calculated murders by obsessive stalkers. Follow law enforcement, detectives, and forensic experts as they connect the threads of evidence that lead to relentlessly solving these tragic mysteries.

In September 1973, Stephen Downing was convicted and indefinitely sentenced for the murder of Wendy Sewell, a young legal secretary in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District. Wendy was attacked in broad daylight in Bakewell Cemetery. Stephen Downing, the 17-year-old groundskeeper with learning difficulties and a reading age of 11, was the primary suspect. He was immediately arrested, questioned for nine hours, without a solicitor present, and pressured into signing a confession full of words he did not understand.

It is difficult to imagine a more heinous crime than the sexual abuse of children. Yet, terrifyingly, a new case of child sexual abuse is reported every seven minutes. In response to this crisis, self-appointed groups of citizens are fashioning themselves as pedophile hunters." Operating outside the law, these groups use social media to bait and expose those seeking to engage children sexually, both on- and offline. Their work has been remarkably effective, but at what cost?

Avremi Zippel always knew his life would be different. With a commitment to follow in his father's footsteps and serve as the Rabbi in Salt Lake City, he knew his life would defy stereotypes. However, nothing could prepare him for the truly unexpected twists and turns reality had in store.

Die Lebensgeschichte einer Frau, die als kleines Kind missbraucht wurde. Sie war noch zu klein, um zu verstehen, was mit ihr geschah. Das Geschehen wurde in ihrem Unterbewusstsein verankert. Es holte sie einige Jahre später auf bittere Art und Weise ein. Nach dem Erkennen verschloss sie ihr Herz. Es begegnete ihr die große Liebe mit einem noch größeren Geheimnis. Ihr war nicht bewusst, was es bedeutet, wenn ein Mann sagt "ich bin ein Fetischist", welche Bedeutung dieses Wort im Leben von Liebenden hat. Sie sollte es aber erfahren ...