Warning: this report contains explicit language. It all started on WhatsApp. The first in a cascade of U.S. Navy investigations into sailors accused of …
Tinder, Sailor, Hooker, Pimp: The U.S. Navy's Sex-Trafficking Scandal in Bahrain
NCIS probes revealed evidence that U.S. sailors were housing prostitutes in their apartments, seizing the women’s passports and taking a cut of their earnings ― profiting from the sex trade that services shipmates in Bahrain. A Military Times investigation.
Warning: This report contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault allegations. Sometime in 2017, Mary left her home in rural Thailand and traveled …
While the Naval Criminal Investigative Service investigated numerous sailors for crimes involving sex trafficking and prostitutes in Bahrain in …
While Navy court records and investigative files suggest U.S. sailors have patronized and profited off Thai prostitutes in Bahrain for years, Navy …
In 2017, the Navy uncovered a web of activity among sailors at its Middle East headquarters linked to sex, prostitution and attempted human …
Central to much of the prostitution and sex trafficking investigations in Bahrain in 2017 was a well-known pimp with a secret: She also was an NCIS …
A grim new thread emerges in the Bahrain cases, as prostitutes are brought to military authorities with a common allegation: a Navy Chief had raped …
The degree to which prostitutes were intertwined with sailors in Bahrain in 2017 is illustrated in the case of a young Petty Officer. 2 years ago
The Navy responds to the unfolding investigations of sex trafficking and other sex crimes among sailors at the U.S. 5th Fleet in Bahrain. 2 years ago