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Article

15 Jun 2011

Author:
Jacqueline J. Holness, Courthouse News Service

Tour Company Accused of Brazilian Child Sex Traffic

Four Brazilian women say a Georgia man and his fishing tour company recruited them as minors... to engage in commercial sex acts…aboard defendants' fishing boat…Plaintiffs…sued…Wet-A-Line Tours in [US] Federal Court…"Defendants, by and through their agents and employees, engaged in international commerce and sex trafficking of children by recruiting customers in the United States to engage in 'sex tourism' in Brazil," the complaint states…The plaintiffs, who say they were hired at ages 12 to 17, say they were recruited at a "social club" near the Amazon River...[and] they were coerced into performing sex acts…