The feds have indicted 29 Somalia men and women for their alleged roles in decade-long pedophile ring operated by three Minneapolis, MN-based street gangs – Somali Outlaws, Somali Mafia and Lady Outlaws – which forced girls as young as twelve into prostitution in Minneapolis, MN, Columbus, OH and Nashville, TN as reported by the Star Tribune: “one source familiar with the investigation hinted that the human trafficking investigation is just the tip of a much deeper criminal enterprise that goes beyond the United States.” Video
Sex trafficking in women and children is the second biggest racket – behind drugs – for organized crime and street gangs in the United States which provides annual revenue of $9 billion, and the FBI estimates more than 100 criminal groups have their dirty hands in the illicit trade which use strips clubs, massage parlors and Craigslist and other web sites to peddle their product. Last April the feds indicted a suspected Gambino crew in New York City on prostitution charges that allegedly involved the exploitation of teen girls as young as fifteen, and in August 2009 members of the West Side Street Mobb in Seattle, WA pleaded guilty to running a prostitution ring which included girls as young as fifteen. The involvement of the Mafia in the sex trade has been widely known ever since Thomas Dewey nailed Lucky Luciano in 1936 for controlling the largest prostitution ring uncovered in American history, and reached its culmination during the 1970s and 1980s when New York City’s crime families controlled the sex industry in Times Square which included gay bars catering to chicken hawks, prostitution rings exploiting teenage runaway girls and smut shops where child pornography was ubiquitous.
