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October 2012
September 2012
Human trafficking on Guam
HAGÅTÑA - Modern day labour continues to exist internationally in what is famous as tellurian trafficking; and for a tiny island, Guam has been sinister by this issue.
In this year alone, sovereign prosecutors cumulative a successful life judgment opposite a loll owners who forced young, newcomer women from Chuuk into prostitution, and are in a routine of prosecuting a box opposite a former construction association owners who recruited, abused and under-paid unfamiliar workers.
Guam was faced with dual common forms of tellurian trafficking: passionate exploitation and forced labor.
Blue House
Hitting a headlines this year was a box surrounding a Blue House Karaoke that close down in Jan 2008 after it was detected that Chuukese women were being hold warrant for harlotry underneath a control of loll owners Song Ja Cha.
Song Ja Cha
The 71-year-old Cha was condemned final month in sovereign justice to life seizure after carrying been convicted of sex trafficking; swindling to dedicate sex trafficking; attempted sex trafficking; duress and attractiveness to transport in widespread or unfamiliar commerce for prostitution; and transport of a teenager for prostitution.
During sentencing, Judge Dean Pregerson settled that Cha's acts were "not distant private from slavery."
From 2004 to 2008, Cha recruited poor, immature and untaught women from Chuuk by earnest them high-paying jobs. Yet when a women arrived, Cha nude them of their passports and used a accumulation of means to enforce a victims to rivet in prostitution.
During hearing in Feb 2011, plant testimonies suggested that Cha had forced a women to take birth control shots and threatened to have them arrested if they designed to shun by demonstrating her connectors with military who busy a lounge. The victims were forced to sell drinks and have sex with business in VIP bedrooms while Cha pocketed a profits.
On a other finish of a spectrum of tellurian trafficking is a box surrounding a former construction company: Transrama Guam Inc., that also did business as "The Mechanic."
Although no longer in business, association owners Ramachandran Vadivallo, aka Vicraama Sarada or Vic Rama, was indicted in sovereign justice in late Aug on charges of mail fraud, visa fraud, income laundering, and rascal in unfamiliar labor contracting. The box was hermetic for dual years until sum of a review and raid in 2010 eventually surfaced, followed by a indictment.
According to justice documents, Vadivallo recruited 10 visitor workers from Malaysia and Indonesia. As they arrived on Guam, he educated them to obey their passports and general driver's licenses.
Prior to a unfamiliar workers' arrivals, justice papers indicated, Vadivallo would indoctrinate them around discussion calls on Skype on what to respond to immigrations officials when they arrived. Vadivallo told a recruits that their transport and visa losses would be compensated; however, they were never paid.
Two of a Transrama H-2B workers assisted during a investigation, detailing Vadivallo's recruitment intrigue and income and labor abuses. Federal agents schooled that a unfamiliar workers worked between 200 to 400 hours a month and perceived a income trimming from $500 to reduction than $2,000 a month, operative 6 days a week. According to justice documents, one workman brought in from Indonesia was identified as a slightest paid, earning a prosaic rate of $500 a month.
It was suggested during an clandestine video and audio recording by one of a workers that Vadivallo was in possession of a workers' passports and during other times had verbally threatened and educated a workers to distortion to authorities if they were questioned about their work.
Although Vadivallo doesn't face any trafficking charges, a box opposite him is one that vividly illustrates forced labor. He pleaded guilty to a charges filed opposite him and is set to face hearing in Nov. 20.
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