Former "Smallville" actress Allison Mack is seeking a judge's permission to attend work, school and church as she awaits trial for sex trafficking charges. The star was arrested in New York in April and subsequently indicted on a string of counts amid allegations suggesting she was the second-in-command of the NXIVM collective, allegedly run by Keith Raniere, and a sub-group, called Dominus Obsequious Sororium (DOS).
Mack is said to have convinced women to join what they called a female empowerment group from February 2016 to June 2017. The 36-year-old, who has pleaded not guilty to the charges, was remanded in custody following her indictment, as her lawyers attempted to secure a deal with federal prosecutors. (KOMO 4 news, August 15, 2018)
An April 21, 2018 article in The Sun said "NXIVM is a slave cult ‘where women – including a Hollywood actress – are forced to hand over naked pics, get branded with the founder’s initials, and are beaten with paddles."
I discussed sex trafficking in the blog in April 2018, and believe that it is a topic of which we need to be aware. Sex trafficking is not just something that happens in the back streets of Bangkok, nor is it something that only happens in the seedy world of pimps and drug dealers. As we have seen in recent news, sex traffickers may be police officers, fire fighters, of Hollywood actresses.
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