Iowa Law Doesn’t Prohibit Human Trafficking
March 16th, 2006 at 10:12pm Geraldine
Radio Iowa reports that today an expert from the Center for Women Policy Studies urged Iowa legislators to add a law to the books making human trafficking illegal. Currently only the federal government may prosecute cases in Iowa, and adding a statute would enable local law enforcement to help.
The federal government has prosecuted one case of human trafficking in Cedar Rapids.
She says local lawmakers don’t want to wait for a federal case to unfold here. Federal prosecutors are stretched very thin, she says, advising that Iowans won’t want to wait for them to track down cases, “because then you will know that you have a bigger problem.”For every one federal prosecuted, she says that’s just the tip of a huge iceberg, and there are dozens of people locked away you won’t know about. Wolf says women in poor countries are promised jobs in other countries but wind up working in prostitution, or laboring in sweatshops, in farm fields, or as housekeepers in private homes.
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