All posts tagged: The Berlin Turnpike

Dr. Laurie Roth, The Roth Show,ImaginePublicity

The Roth Show: Trafficking in Humans with Dottie Laster and Raymond Bechard

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Join Dr. Laurie Roth weekdays at 7-10pm Pacific, 10pm-1am Eastern Listen LIVE or to the Archive:  http://therothshow.com On Wednesday’s crime segment Dr. Laurie Roth with Dottie Laster in Hour 1 and Raymond Bechard in Hour 2 Hour #1: Continuing with Human Trafficking Awareness Month, Dottie Laster is joined by Barbara Gonzalez the Press Secretary for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “Human trafficking is one of the most heinous crimes that ICE investigates. In its worst manifestation, human trafficking is akin to modern-day slavery. Victims pay to be illegally transported into the United States only to find themselves in the thrall of traffickers. They are forced into prostitution, involuntary labor and other forms of servitude to repay debts – often entry in the United States. In certain cases, the victims are mere children. They find themselves surrounded by an unfamiliar culture and language without identification documents, fearing for their lives and the lives of their families. ICE is serious about ending human trafficking.”   For more information about the role of ICE to end human trafficking, visit …

Raymond Bechard,ImaginePublicity,The Berlin Turnpike

Shattered Lives: Raymond Bechard Discusses Human Trafficking and Online Child Porn

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SHATTERED LIVES with Donna R. Gore, “LadyJustice” Examining the effects of those who have survived violent crime and how it has impacted their lives. Real people, real tragedy, real help. Saturdays at 5pm ET Listen LIVE:  CLICK HERE Raymond Bechard makes his second appearance on Shattered Lives! Social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter are the new backyard fence where people meet to share their news, gossip and conversations. Unlike meeting in open spaces in neighborhoods, we often don’t know who is behind an online profile and what their true intentions are. According to Raymond Bechard, Executive Director of the Political Action Committee, Men Against Prostitution And Trafficking (MENAPAT): For the first time in history, pedophiles can meet anonymously from around the world to trade illicit images and videos of children . The websites have no idea how to prevent it and are reluctant to even address the issues because that would mean acknowledging the problem. Two sites have been established to bring attention to the problem to the public and actively lobby to do something about it: #1 – Our Causes.com page …

Shattered Lives, Donna R. Gore, LadyJustice,ImaginePublicity

Shattered Lives: Raymond Bechard, Author of The Berlin Turnpike,A True Story of Human Trafficking in America

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SHATTERED LIVES with Donna R. Gore, “LadyJustice” Examining the effects of those who have survived violent crime and how it has impacted their lives. Real people, real tragedy, real help. Saturdays at 5pm ET Listen LIVE or podcast:  CLICK HERE Special Guest: Raymond Brechard talks about the epidemic of human trafficking in every city of our country. The Berlin Turnpike in Hartford, Connecticut is a major road containing many large retail chain stores, and over 1000 motel rooms.  It’s along this road within these hotel rooms that modern slavery in the form of commercial sex exploitation takes place, just as it does in every community that isn’t aware of the human trafficking epidemic happening in their own backyard and doing something proactive about it. Until recently, most average Americans thought slavery ended after the Civil War, or that human trafficking only happened in other countries. Human trafficking is a business that has been allowed to grow under the auspices of prostitution, pornography, and labor trades.  The business of trafficking in humans, and it’s billions of dollars in …