With $50 and a plane ticket to Haiti, one can buy a slave. There are more slaves on the planet today than at any time in human history. Adjusting for inflation, in 1850 a slave would cost roughly $30k to $40k. Today you can go to Haiti and buy a 9-year-old girl to use as a sexual and domestic slave for $50. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

A former teacher was sentenced Tuesday to more than seven years in prison for forcing a Haitian girl to work as a slave for years, each day of the week, in her South Florida home.

Apparently the woman still refuses to admit she did anything wrong. picked by jhordie 2 years ago

Britain's slave trading past is getting a human face as an ancestry-tracing website starts putting the personal histories of the victims online for the first time. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

An elderly woman who had been missing for seven years was found dead in her own home!

The remains, nothing more than a skeleton at this point, appear to have lain undisturbed in her apartment since the day she had been reported missing. picked by funkfrost 8 months ago

A Florida woman has been charged with fraud and theft after she kept her dead mother's body in a bedroom for six years while collecting more than $200,000 in pension benefits. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

Marine archaeologists have found the remains of a slave ship wrecked off the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1841, an accident that set free the ancestors of many current residents of those islands. Some 192 Africans survived the sinking of the Spanish ship Trouvadore off the British-ruled islands, where the slave trade was banned. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago

A 63-year-old woman missing for nearly a week after going fishing in Iowa has been found alive on a raft hidden in the brush of a riverbank. picked by AutumnLotus 3 months ago

An Austrian woman lived with the mummified remains of her aunt for a year after she died at age 96. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

In what is either the weirdest Russian crime story of the year so far or a new low in yellow crime journalism, a female hair stylist in the Kaluga region is suspected of holding an armed robber in captivity as a sex slave for two days after he unsuccessfully tried to knock over her beauty salon. picked by kakana 7 months ago

Japanese and U.S. officials have found four mass graves that they believe hold the remains of 500 World War II soldiers, nearly 65 years after a bloody battle on the remote Alaskan island of Attu. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A woman who was trafficked across the border from Pakistan with her son, 3, was handed to an Afghan who raped her, then beat the toddler to death as she watched.

He was jailed for 20 years for murder - but the woman, Rukhma, was jailed, too. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

A woman who boarded the wrong bus on an attempted shopping trip from Thailand to Malaysia has returned home after 25 years. There were some language barriers and mistaken identity issues but hey... she should have been back home in 12 years tops! picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago

A Northern Territory woman today broadcast an appeal for help to stop a sexually-frustrated male emu trying to herd her into its nest. picked by AutumnLotus 6 months ago

A York woman is suing a grocer alleging she was injured after biting into a pork roast that she said contained part of a hypodermic needle. picked by Bornbad 10 months ago

The Truck Farm is a living, mobile garden inside the bed of a 1986 Dodge half-ton pickup truck, parked on the streets of Brooklyn which grows tomatoes, broccoli, arugula, and parsley. Check out some videos of the farm in action. WANT!!! picked by suebe 3 months ago

A Lee County woman pleaded not guilty to 10 misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty and not caring for her pets, four days after authorities found more than 200 dead animals scattered on her property, stuffed in the refrigerator, strewn across floors and packed into barrels. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Go meat, meat. Go meat, meat. Go meat, meat.

That salad rocks! The best! Make it easy at your desk!

It's second, to none! Just add lettuce and you're done!

That's crazy girl, I swear! There is so much stuff in there.

S S S Salad. Yeah! A meaty salad! What? 'Cuz you hungry, you hungry. Your mama says you hungry!

When I say Hillshire, you say Farm. Hillshire! Farm!

GO MEAT! picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

Megan Williams thought she was going to a party. That's why she tagged along with a woman she hardly knew, up a remote southern West Virginia hollow to a run-down trailer surrounded by beer cans and broken-down furniture.

Update to previous post. picked by wags273 2 years ago

A Chinese woman's 64-year-old headache has ended after doctors removed a bullet that relatives said lodged in her skull when Japanese soldiers shot her during World War Two. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

"As you enter the heaven of liberty, you literally have to cross the hell of slavery," picked by kxmk 2 years ago