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http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2009/10/sheriff-investigates-human-trafficking-ring.html#
3 Thai women found in human trafficking sting
Cook County sheriff's police conducting a sting discovered three women from Thailand who told investigators they had been forced to work as prostitutes in Chicago, New York, San Francisco and Texas in the three weeks they have been in the United States.
The sheriff's office said it suspects the women were caught in a human trafficking ring that offered them for "services" on at least two Web sites...
The three women were discovered on Thursday after investigators answered an ad on a Web site for a "super model, hot, sexy Asian bombshell," the office said. An investigator was directed to go to a Schiller Park intersection and call the contact in the ad again; they were then sent to a specific room in a motel in the 4100 block of North Mannheim Road in Schiller Park.
At the motel, once the officer entered the room, a 23-year-old woman immediately tried to have sex with him, police said. When other investigators came into the room, they questioned the woman, and she told them two other women were in nearby rooms.
The three women were questioned by police, including the sheriff's Women's Justice Services Department, which includes interviewers who are former prostitutes, according to police.
When interviewed, the women, who have limited understanding of English, told investigators they flew to New York on tourist visas from Thailand three weeks ago, and were taken by limousine to an area motel; in each city they visited, the women were met by a limousine driver, who took them to an area motel, and were told not to leave their rooms until the woman involved in the ring gave them orders to leave for another city, according to police.
The woman, who the three women knew only as "Anne," would call them to tell them a man was on his way to meet them to pay for sex, and after each man had left, a man who worked with Anne would collect the money, according to the sheriff's office.
The women have told investigators the operation includes a woman who arranged for men to meet the women for a price, and a man who collected the money they made, the sheriff's office said.
The sheriff's office is working with federal authorities to investigate the ring. In the meantime, the Chicago Alliance Against Sexual Exploitation is providing social services to the woman, according to police.