Tang Wei, an Australian woman has been sentenced to ten years imprisonment for making five Thai women work as sex slaves in a brothel.

Wei, 44, is the first person in Australia to be found guilty by a jury of possessing sex slaves, under federal anti-slavery laws introduced in 1999.

A New York City man has been charged with assaulting women in the subway system by kneeling before them and kissing and licking their feet.

Police say eight of nine women picked Joseph Weir out of lineups, the Daily News reported.

A Chicago based woman sued her wealthy husband for divorce claiming she spent the last six years as a terrified slave enduring sadomasochistic assaults.

Kimberley O'Brien, 45, has also filed a separate suit against Kevin Anderson, 50, accusing him of cheating her on joint business dealings, photographing her bound-and-gagged body, and causing a wrongful death by forcing her to abort a child against her will.

FBI officials have arrested a man suspected of smuggling two Mexican migrants into the United States and selling them as part of a sex slave trade.

Eliseo Escalante Santizo, 30, of Fort Myers, was taken into custody Monday at the Lee County Justice Center for a court hearing on unrelated charges of battery and resisting an officer with violence.