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C S E C The Commercial Sexual
Exploitation of Children In the early years of the 21st Century, 2000 to
2025 gvnet.com/childprostitution/USA.htm ARCHIVES CAUTION: The following links
have been culled from the web to illuminate the situation in the USA. Some of these links may lead to websites
that present allegations that are unsubstantiated or even false. No attempt has been made to validate their
authenticity or to verify their content. Runaways
- Where To Turn For Help Before You Are Homeless
- 1-800-621-4000 Rebeccas Community -- This
is for anyone aged up to 13 years old who is thinking about running away www.homeless.org.au/runaways.htm [accessed 9 August 2011] Here are the best
phone numbers to call …They are Confidential - which means they won't tell
anyone about your call unless you want them to talk to somebody for you, or
you are in danger. They are open 24
Hours - it doesn't matter what time you call.
In the Runaways KidsVoice, March 09, 2004 www.kidsvoiceorg.com/Guardian/Episodes.aspx?episode=date20040309 [accessed 9 August 2011] Most runaway children
do not realize the dangers of living on the streets. According to the
National Runaway Switchboard, 75% of runaways will become involved in theft,
drugs or pornography. One out of every three teens on the street will be
lured into prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home. A victim's story: The reality of being
trafficked Lois Thome,
reporter and Jackie Winchester, writer, WINK News, 16 December 2020 www.winknews.com/2020/12/16/a-victims-story-the-reality-of-being-trafficked/ [accessed 19 December 2020] Savannah Parvu had a painful, unimaginable childhood. “I started being
sexually abused by a neighbor around the age of five,” she said. Then her mom
started selling her body for drugs, Parvu said, and
eventually, “there was a time when I was 11 that her drug dealer offered a
$10 piece of crack for me instead of for her.” That’s when the
human trafficking started. “Sometimes they
would take me to hotels. We went to one hotel a lot, and at that hotel, the staff there were friends with my trafficker, and so he
would take me and leave me there and the staff would open up the door and let
people in.” Former Child Prostitute Tells Her Story: 'I
Was So Degraded' fox5vegas.com, 23 June 2009 infos.fondationscelles.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=166%3Aformer-child-prostitute-tells-her-story-i-was-so-degraded&catid=42%3Aenfants&Itemid=141&lang=fr [accessed 9 August 2011] "At 12 years old, and it was a really horrible experience for me. But
after that first time, I was so degraded, I was like, ‘Whatever, I did it
once, might as well do it again," said Dettrea
King. King said she worked as
prostitute for five years. She said she experienced horrors that no child
ever should. “I’ve been kidnapped,
beat up, raped. I had my hair cut off,” King said. “He told me to say goodbye
to my family because he was going to kill me.” King said every day
she had to hand over $1,000 to her pimp.
“He took everything. You don’t keep anything. He makes sure you have
nice clothes, hair and nails done so you look the part, but as far as you
having anything in your pocket -- maybe $20, $40. But other than that, you
don’t get anything," King said.
After five years and thousands of johns, she said she finally wound up
in jail. “By me going to jail and
getting locked up -- it saved my life,” King said. Former US Teenage Prostitutes Escape Brutal
Street Life Mike O'Sullivan, Voice of www.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2009-06-18-voa70-68740097.html [accessed 9 August 2011] "I prostituted
since I was 10-years-old," said Monica. "The first time I ran away
from home, it was with this guy. He was 17 and I told him that I was 15. And
I decided I wanted to leave because I lost my virginity the day before that,
so I thought, OK, let me just run the streets. And having sex was fun, so I
just thought it would be fun, but it was not." She returned home but ran away again and
got involved with other pimps, who tutored her in the business. By the age of
12, she was a regular on the streets of Girls on Our Streets Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times, www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=1 [accessed 9 August 2011] Jasmine Instead, the policeman showed her his
handcuffs and threatened to send her to prison. Terrified, she cried and
pleaded not to be jailed. Then, she said, he offered to release her in
exchange for sex. Afterward, the policeman returned her to the street.
Then her pimp beat her up for failing to collect any money. “That
happens a lot,” said Jasmine, who is now 21. “The cops sometimes just want to
blackmail you into having sex.” Documentary examines Reuters, www.nanyang100.com/world/5852.html [accessed 9 August 2011] Filmmaker Libby Spears wanted to to make a
documentary about the sexual exploitation of kids in Asia and Latin America,
but that changed when she discovered that child sex trafficking is a big
problem in the United States. The Girl Next Door May Now Be on the Corner Marian Wright Edelman, President of the
Children's Defense Fund, The Huffington Post, March 16, 2009 www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/the-girl-next-door-may-no_b_175239.html [accessed 9 August 2011] One such story is
of a 13-year-old girl who ran away to Among the million
and a half children who run away from home each year, traffickers ensnare
tens of thousands of them into the sex trade through rape, drug addition,
coercion, deception, brute force and abduction. They are transported far from
their homes to isolate them from family and friends. In late October 2008,
federal law enforcement agents broke up more than a dozen child prostitution
and sex trafficking rings operating in several cities involving girls and
boys from ages 13 to 17. These youths are sold like cartons of cigarettes and
six packs of beer in urban working-class neighborhoods, as well as suburban
and rural communities, and purchased online though an Internet sexual slave
market. Two Fox News & The Associated Press AP,
February 24, 2009 www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499189,00.html [accessed 9 August 2011] Two teenaged girls
were arrested for allegedly pimping other students
for prostitution, Investigators said
the suspects recruited at least five girls, ages 14 to 17. Finley and Tye,
who were allegedly involved in prostitution themselves, were responsible for
recruiting, teaching and receiving money from the other girls who worked for
them, police said. At one point, the
two rented an apartment where they conducted the prostitution operation,
according to investigators. ‘Thousands’ of teens said caught up in web
of truck stop prostitution Dorothy Cox, The Trucker, 1/27/2009 www.expeditersonline.com/trucking/In_The_News_2/Thousands_of_teens_said_caught_up_in_web_of_truck_stop_prostitution.html [accessed 14 Aug 2013] Some truckers claim
prostitution is only a matter of working girls trying to make a living and
therefore, victimless. But according to statistics — and law enforcement —
they’re either fooling themselves, misinformed, or both. An ABC TV Prime Time
Crime special this summer asserted that “thou-sands of teens are forced into
truck stop sex,” with an FBI spokesman adding that truck stops are uniquely
suited to prostitution because at night the parking lots are isolated and out
of the view of the public and police. Sometimes, parents,
themselves, are involved. Driver
Anthony Cleveland told The Trucker he saw a mother put out her 14-year-old
daughter to turn tricks at an Atlanta’s tragic tricks - City, state and
nonprofit group offer strategy to fight child prostitution Sunday Paper, 01/25/2009 www.sundaypaper.com/More/Archives/tabid/98/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3590/Atlantas-tragic-tricks.aspx [Last access date unavailable] FASHION’S DIRTY
HANDS
- When Vanity Fair published an Annie Leibovitz
photo showing 15-year-old Miley Cyrus clutching a sheet, baring her back, it
touched off a firestorm of controversy about the sexualization
of children. Such images, combined with provocative
clothing marketed to pre-teens, helps pump demand for prostituted
children, says McCullough. “If we show pictures of 15-year-olds posed
in a sexually provocative manner, why are we surprised when there is a demand
for 13-year-olds?” says McCullough. One of McCullough’s
friends went shopping with her 6-year-old. As they went through the clothing
for sale, the mom kept vetoing clothing with the mantra “this is not
appropriate, this is not appropriate.” Finally, the 6-year-old asked: “Mama,
if these are not appropriate, why do they make it in my size?” Child Prostitution Rampant in The Associated Press AP, www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479289,00.html [accessed 9 August 2011] Hundreds of teens
selling sex make connections using Internet sites like Craigslist.com, simply
standing along a two-mile stretch of Young workers in the oldest profession -
Clark County girls make up a third of the underage sex workers in Portland Isolde Raftery,
December 6, 2008 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3628 [accessed 9 August 2011] Sarah was 16 and
addicted to crack cocaine when she heard there was easy money to make in the
parking lot of a fast food restaurant off ‘SNITCHES DIE, YOU
KNOW’
- “I can cite case after case of girls coming from average families, and once
the pimp was able to intervene, the family didn’t matter anymore,” Dick said.
“I know of officers’ daughters who got into it, a federal prosecutor’s
daughter, a DA’s daughter, a politician’s daughter.” Cherise was a rebellious 15-year-old when
she met her first pimp, Deandre Green, at 2 Click2Houston, October 27, 2008 www.click2houston.com/news/17817123/detail.html [accessed 9 August 2011] Two Across the country,
73 pimps and 518 adult prostitutes were arrested under the crackdown in 29
different cities, FBI officials said.
Forty-seven children were rescued. Their ages range from 13 to 17
years old. Ten of them had been
reported missing to the www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2008/October/08-crt-920.html [accessed 9 January 2011] Evidence presented
at trial demonstrated that The evidence
established that Paris "purchased" two of the victims from a co-defendant,
Brian Forbes, who previously pleaded guilty to five counts of sex trafficking
and was sentenced to 13 years in prison for his role in recruiting and
exploiting minors and vulnerable young women into prostitution, as well as
using beatings, rapes, drug withdrawal, threats and unlawful restraint, to
compel them to perform commercial sex acts. – htcp ECPAT Global Monitoring Report on the
status of action against commercial exploitation of children - USA [PDF] ECPAT International, 2006 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Americas/Global_Monitoring_Report-USA.pdf [accessed 9 August 2011] There is limited
information available on the commercial sexual exploitation of children
(CSEC) and adolescents within the The prostitution of
children is a widespread phenomenon, and over the past couple of years
several articles in prominent press media, such as Newsweek magazine,1 have
highlighted a growing problem of prostitution of girls from many different
income levels. Sadly, members of the public and law enforcement view children
in prostitution as a public nuisance or as immoral, bad kids, if not
criminals. They tend not to see American children in prostitution as
“innocent victims”, in the same way as they might see poor, young foreign
children who may be kidnapped, sold or trafficked to the Hidden epidemic: Children recruited to be
sex slaves Eric Johnson, WTOP News, www.wtop.com/?nid=858&sid=1457483 [accessed 9 August 2011] "They seek out
children who may have any sort of vulnerability -- vulnerability from sexual
abuse as a child, vulnerability from homelessness, vulnerability from all
different hosts of issues." "This fellow
would drive around the District, see teenage girls on the street, entice them
into his car, force them to disrobe and perform sex acts, hold them captive
and then force them into acts of prostitution." Myles notes that the pimps have learned to
go after children in or around places that are hard for kids to avoid. "They target schools. They target
parks. They target bus stops. They target malls," he says. "They
even target places like group shelters and group homes. If your full-time
effort, all-day, every-day is just to recruit children, you really learn to
focus on the different places the kids are." Congressional
Testimony - Statement of Chris Swecker Assistant
Director, Criminal Investigative Division, FBI Chris Swecker,
Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, Jun 7, 2005 www2.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/swecker060705.htm [accessed 9 August 2011] The average age of
a child first used in prostitution is 11 to 14, with some as young as 9 years
of age. Children used in prostitution consist of both male and female victims
and come from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds. A large percentage of
these children left home because of physical, sexual, and psychological
abuse. These children often have low self-esteem and are extremely
vulnerable. These runaways become a prime target for sex offenders,
pornographers, and pimps. Prostitution is a continuation of the victim's
sexual exploitation, not the beginning. According to Juveniles who
become involved in sexual trafficking face a myriad of obstacles and enormous
needs if they want to leave that life, including very basic needs such as
safe housing, subsistence, and schooling. In addition, they may need drug
treatment, medical treatment, and mental health services. They may have
problems related to victimization prior to their life on the streets. Most
cannot return to their family of origin, so they need help to prepare for
independent living. Prostitution and Prevention Editorial, The New York Times, July 29,
2008 [accessed 9 August 2011] Child prostitution,
a large and growing problem across the A report earlier
this year by the Barton Child Law and Policy Clinic at Children of the Night: Child Prostitution
Is America’s Dirty Little Secret John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford
Institute, 7/28/2008 www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=544 [accessed 9 August 2011] Amazingly, many
children are introduced to prostitution by family members or acquaintances
such as parents, older siblings or boyfriends. The internet, especially
websites such as Craigslist, Facebook and MySpace, has made it even easier to
prey on children without being easily detected by law enforcement. Child prostitution
is Children who are
sold for sex (the majority are female) typically range in age from 11 to 17,
with some as young as 9 years old. Once they have been lured or forced into
prostituting themselves, these children are subjected to a full range of
injuries, diseases, pregnancies, mental issues such as post-traumatic stress
disorder and depression and drug addiction, not to mention criminal and delinquency
charges if they are caught. For those who are “rescued” out of the system,
the stigma of having once been part of the sex trade is hard to overcome. Jeff Johnson, OneNewsNow,
7/22/2008 onenewsnow.com/culture/2008/07/21/us-sex-trade-consumes-thousands-of-children [accessed 7 October 2012] The "I've actually
seen kids on the streets of Trueman says children end
up in prostitution in a variety of ways, almost none of which are completely
voluntary. "What pimps do is find vulnerable kids -- who are either
runaways, throwaways, or they might find them online where they're willing to
be more risqué. Robin www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/18/new_york_struggles_over_child_prostitution/ [accessed 9 August 2011] She seems like a typical
shy high school kid. Little about her suggests the tortured story she tells:
At 14 she ran away from sexual abuse at home and met a 24-year-old guy who
seemed like he wanted to be her boyfriend - until he told her he wanted to be
her pimp. "I was like, wow," recalled the girl, now 16, though she
looks younger. She was shocked, but desperate, she said. "At the time I
needed a place to sleep, so I was like, 'Fine, I'll go along with it.' " On and off
for the next two years, she said, she traded sex for cash, under the control
of several different men who took most of the money for themselves. Her work
as a child prostitute caused her to be arrested in March and placed in
detention. Now A Look at the Harrowing Lives of Child
Prostitutes Sewell Chan, The New York Times, July 3,
2008 cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/a-look-at-the-harrowing-lives-of-child-prostitutes/ [accessed 9 August 2011] "Very Young
Girls” is an 83-minute documentary film that opens on Friday at the The film offers a
vivid and disturbing look at the sexual exploitation and trafficking of
teenage girls in 2 child prostitutes discovered in [access information unavailable] Officers discovered
two minors involved in prostitution during a sweep in 'Innocence Lost' initiative rescuing child
prostitutes Charlie Butts, OneNewsNow,
6/30/2008 onenewsnow.com/culture/2008/06/27/innocence-lost-initiative-rescuing-child-prostitutes [accessed 7 October 2012] A recent spate of
arrests in 16 cities put 345 people behind bars accused of involvement in
child prostitution -- and 21 children were rescued. But that's only the tip
of the iceberg, according to one pro-family advocate. There are likely many thousands of
children, mostly runaways or throwaways, on the streets of this nation,
largely supporting themselves through prostitution. Chris Gacek
of the Family Research Council believes child prostitution is a big business
now, partly because of the Internet. Child prostitutes sell themselves on
Craigslist Veronica De La Cruz and David Fitzpatrick,
Cable News Network CNN, edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/06/27/child.prostitution/index.html?eref=rss_topstories [accessed 10 August 2011] But why would a
girl sell her body online? To help
answer that question, "I wanted to
feel loved. ... I wanted to feel important," said the teen, who did not
want to be identified. She said she used
Craigslist because it was free and she could post dozens of ads a day. Even
though she understood the seriousness of what she was doing, she said she
didn't care. "You could put
stuff in your ad like 'wet and wild,' 'fun and sassy,' things like that to
catch their attention, to make them want you," she said. Human Trafficking in our rural
heartlands-Part 1 Amelia Waters, ConnectTriStates.com,
05.19.2008 www.connecttristates.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=136235#.TkKSkmHXvgl [accessed 10 August 2011] ktvo.com/news/local/human-trafficking-in-our-rural-heartlands-part-1 [accessed 17 November 2016] The federal
indictment alleges that from January 1, 2000 to February 20, 2005, Barkau trained the minor to be a sexual dominatrix by
engaging her in bondage activities with himself and
forcing her in other sexual activities while he watched. With extensive
force and violence Barkau made the girl serve as
dominatrix beginning at 12 years old. When the girl was 14 years old,
the motion alleges Barkau created his online
business for "Mistress Alisha," both Barkau
and the child’s mother earned tens of thousand of dollars. The
Department of Justice says it is the first time in the Study details concerns about Spokane-area
human trafficking The seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004408997_apwahumantrafficking.html [accessed 10 August 2011] [scroll down] Prostitution
accounts for the largest form of human trafficking in the region with an
estimated 500 adult women and an unknown number of men and underage boys and
girls providing sex for money through escort businesses, massage parlors,
drug houses and on the streets, the study found. One of those
surveyed in the study said about a third of those selling sex in the Prostitute series raises dispute behind the
scenes The www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_9065007 [accessed 10 August 2011] Child prostitution has
been One of the most
disturbing stories in the Tribune series was reporter Kamika
Dunlap's interview with a 14-year-old girl who was identified only as
Desiree. Here's what our readers who
have been following the series know: Desiree ran away from home after a trip
to the mall and ended up being sold as a prostitute on Craigslist. She was
forced by her pimp to have sex with as many as five men a day. She contracted
a painful venereal disease that made it impossible for her to work and
eventually made her quit and return to her family. Oakland pimps prey on youth Kamika Dunlap and Barbara
Grady, Mercury News, www.mercurynews.com/crime/ci_8995639 [accessed 14 Aug 2013] When an 11- and
12-year-old girl disappeared last month, and police suspected they ended up
prostituting themselves on the streets, the entire community took
notice. But what many don't realize is
that those missing girls are just two of the legions of children turning
tricks in an exploding local prostitution business, filling the pockets of
pimps. In the past 10 months alone, at
least 170 children between 11 and 17 were referred to a local counseling
agency because they'd been peddled on the streets for sex. These exploited children work for pimps who
quit drug dealing for the more lucrative and less risky trade of selling
young girls for sex. Report: NW a ripe ground for child
prostitution KGW, 03/29/2008 www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_032808_news_human_trafficking_prostitution.c5a29c4.html [Last access date unavailable] The preliminary
report, released this week, describes FBI: Pimps force child prostitutes into
underground networks Jeff McShan, 11
News At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 August 2011] In 2006, around Hillcroft and the Southwest Freeway, the teen – then 13
years old—and three other women were arrested during a sting targeting
prostitutes. It’s prevalent in
southwest Special Agent Walther
said many of the child prostitutes no longer work the streets, but now
they’re involved in organized underground networks. Just this past
Saturday, for example, a 13-year-old girl was arrested inside a Prostitution, even when legalized, destroys
lives Christine Stark, Star Tribune, Little Falls
www.startribune.com/templates/Print_This_Story?sid=16796891 [accessed 10 August 2011] Most prostituted
women and youth are coerced by poverty, racism, lack of opportunity, and drug
and alcohol addictions. The average age of prostitution is 13 in the Victim of human trafficking ring shares her
story Bridgette Outten,
www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/victim-of-human-trafficking-ring-shares-her-story-93689.html [accessed 10 August 2011] At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] Targeted by a
criminal ring of human traffickers operating near Human trafficking steps from the shadows Barry Bergman, Public Affairs, UC Berkely News: Berkeleyan, 12
March 2008 www.berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/03/12_trafficking.shtml [accessed 9 January 2011] Describing herself
as "a nice Catholic girl who lived in a large, suburban house" near
Detroit during her teenage years, she said she was targeted by traffickers,
drugged, and date-raped at the age of 15 - "I was just a kid," she
said - and then blackmailed and forced to work as a prostitute "for two
long years." "They said
they would kill me and my family and my dog if I didn't do what they
said," reported A Prostitute´s View of the Spitzer Sex
Scandal Suki Falconberg,
American Chronicle, March 12, 2008 amchron.soundenterprises.net/articles/view/55137 [accessed 14 Aug 2013] Runaways, very
young, who fall into whoring as a way of finding love, acceptance, and survival are the norm, not the exception in National CyberTipline
Marks 10 Years of Operation PRNewswire, www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/national-cybertipline-marks-10-years-of-operation-56871627.html [accessed 10 August 2011] The CyberTipline, http://www.cybertipline.com, the nation's
system for reporting suspected sexual exploitation of children will celebrate
10 years of operation this week. Operated by the National Center for Missing
& Exploited Children (NCMEC), the CyberTipline
has processed more than 570,000 reports of sex crimes against children, some
as young as two weeks old. Woman faces 11 years prison for kidnapping
El Mirage girl Gary Sarnoff, ABC-15 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 August 2011] Police said Help end child sex slavery Tom C. Rawlings, The www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/02/21/rawlingsed0221.html [accessed 10 August 2011] At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] Recent quarterly
results from an ongoing independent tracking study indicate that more than
250 adolescent girls are being commercially sexually exploited each month in These
young girls are often runaways from the communities we call home. They are
from Child Sex Slavery in Editorial by Tom Rawlings, www.thetruecitizen.com/news/2008-02-20/Opinion/012.html [accessed 10 August 2011] Over the past decade,
juvenile justice authorities and police have noted a significant problem of
children being sexually exploited by pimps in the Southeast and especially on
the streets of metropolitan Imagine this:
you're 12. Your parent has a drug problem. Your parent's "significant
other" enjoys coming in your room late at night when your parent is
passed out. Every time you get angry about it and try to vent, your parent
either hits you or calls the police and has you locked up in the youth
detention center. Your whole life has been like this, and you're angry about
it. What would you do? Like many children of troubled families, you run
away. Unfortunately, you will likely
go from the frying pan to the fire.
Half of runaways are approached for sex and prostitution within 48
hours of hitting the streets, experts say. Records of recent federal pimp
prosecutions in 18-year-old charged with prostituting child Kirk Mitchell, The origin.denverpost.com/rapids/ci_8249565 [accessed 10 August 2011] An 18-year-old
woman has been charged with prostituting a child after advertising on the
Internet, officials say. Suburban Matt Peterson, Editor, The crimeblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/08/suburban-houston-mom-accused-o.html [accessed 10 August 2011] For the second time
in as many weeks, a This is the second
case in less than a week involving a Cecilia Chan, www.aegis.com/news/ads/2007/AD072627.html [accessed 10 August 2011] And according to an
undercover sergeant with the Ghana: Rescuing the Child Prostitute, Whose Responsibility? Wisdom Dzidedi Donkor, Public Agenda ( allafrica.com/stories/200711051563.html [partially accessed 10 August 2011 - access
restricted] RESEARCH FINDINGS - It is believed that
one third of street-level prostitutes in the U.S. are less 18 years old while
fifty percent of off-street prostitutes are less than 18 years old.Off-street prostitution includes massage parlors,
strip clubs, and escort services. According to Estes and Weiner, 12 to 14 is
the average age of entry into prostitution for girls under 17 years old in
the Report from Toronto 2007: Very Young Girls Harriette Yahr,
Media Rights, November 1, 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 August 2011] WHAT DREW YOU TO THE
SUBJECT MATTER? -
We were researching topics for a proposed series about kids in conflict
zones, and one topic on our list was international sex trafficking, you know,
young girls bought and sold in WHAT DOES THAT SAY
TO YOU, ABOUT SOCIETY?
- I think we, as a society, are ready to accept as a victim any 12, 13, or 14
year old who is seduced or manipulated into sex by a soccer coach, an uncle,
a self-styled religious prophet, or a priest. But we don't, yet, if the
predator is a pimp. I think that is because historically we’ve accepted
prostitution, here and there, more or less, as not so bad, like gambling. But
now that we live in a world where sexual exploitation begins so young, we
really have to rethink that view. Officer, workers honored for busting child
sex ring Pedro Ramirez III, The Post Standard,
October 24, 2007 blog.syracuse.com/news/2007/10/local_news_54.html [accessed 10 August 2011] Investigator John Cleere and case workers Connie Foster and Lynda Stanistreet were part of a joint investigation that began
in December 2005 and ultimately unearthed several victims ranging in age from
1-year-old to 15-years-old. The types of abuse and exploitation included
sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect, drugs and child prostitution. Feds jail man for being a child pimp Jeff McShan,
KVUE-11 News, October 12, 2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 August 2011] FBI Special Agent
Vanessa Walther says two girls, ages 14-and 15-years-old, testified against Prostitution sting nets 2 - Man forced
young girls to sell selves, prosecutors say John Iwasaki, www.seattlepi.com/default/article/Prostitution-sting-nets-2-1249650.php [accessed 10 August 2011] A 15-year-old girl told
police Veidt raped her in Hutton's apartment after Veidt forced her into a car driven by Hutton on Aug. 29. Hutton, who drove a
silver Suburban and a black Mercedes and used the moniker "MC,"
attracted young runaways or girls not living with their parents, court
documents said. He coerced them into working as prostitutes, sometimes after
harassing, beating and threatening to kill them, according to documents. How Not to Catch A Predator www.theoakbook.com/MoreDetail.aspx?Aid=1780&CatId=108 [Last access date unavailable] Exact numbers are
hard to come by, but from the OPD’s report and Brantley’s experience
interviewing and counseling hundreds of girls seeking to leave prostitution,
a few generalizations can be made about the girls Ms. Babaoye
and others see every day: the majority are fifteen years of age or younger,
most are from outside of Alameda County, and many are from outside of
California. The vast majority suffer reproductive
health problems, and most have lived in group homes, and have suffered physical
or sexual abuse in those homes. But Ms. Brantley’s
favorite number is 95 percent. That percentage refers to the girls she speaks
with at juvenile hall who tell her that they want help leaving prostitution.
The problem is not one of will, but one of resources. While What she wants to
see is a safe house where child prostitutes can live for a month to escape
the pimps fighting to drag them back to the streets. Without that, many girls
now are placed in group homes that perversely become the targets of pimps and
predators looking for vulnerable girls. Mindy Fothergill, KUAM News, September 01,
2007 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 August 2011] More than a dozen
minors were taken into custody on Friday charged with accepting money for sex
and stealing cars and breaking into homes. Those involved range in age from
11 to 19. The male minors would seek out potential "John's", those
willing to pay for sex. The female teens would then have the men take them to
various places for sex in return for money, alcohol, and marijuana. In some
cases the men would have sex with the minors, then
stop by a store to purchase alcohol. When the man returned from the store
he'd find his car was stolen by the very people he had just paid for sexual
acts. Shared Hope International -
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6/22/2007 www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1185511 [accessed 10 January 2011] GIRLS LURED INTO SEX
TRADE
- As a result of November's arrests, Perfecto admitted
she knew all along that the girls, who were 13 and 17, would be coerced to
engage in prostitution in brothels in Mom accused of prostituting her 2 daughters Dale Lezon and
Mike Glenn, The www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4888575.html [accessed 10 August 2011] A 16-year-old girl
endured being sold into prostitution by her mother but finally went to The teenager had
complied with her mother — who even distributed business cards offering her
daughters for sex — but feared that her 14-year-old sister would be hurt,
officers said. Funds Earmarked for Young American
Prostitutes in Adapted from: Jill Young Miller.
"Lawmakers provide startup funds to help prostituted kids." The www.humantrafficking.org/updates/638 [accessed 10 August 2011] To help young girls
who have been prostituted, Many prostituted
girls end up locked in youth detention centers or back on the streets. One
option is Angela's House, a group home in rural Study Reveals Surprising Findings About
Child Prostitution In City Solana Pyne, NY1
News, 04/24/2007 www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/69058/ny1-exclusive--study-reveals-surprising-findings-about-child-prostitution-in-city [accessed 7 October 2012] Teen prostitution.
The words usually conjure up images of young girls walking the streets. But a
new study, the first in the city to extensively interview sexually exploited
children, suggests that many of the conventional stereotypes are wrong. "The most surprising is the amount of
boys that are doing this,” says Meredith Dank. Pimp called ‘Knowledge' sentenced to 23
years March 25th, 2007 www.vnnforum.com/archive/index.php/t-46902.html [accessed 10 August 2011] The prostitutes the
group recruited were as young as 13 years old. One victim told the FBI that
Thompkins promised her a cell phone, a house and a car if she made enough
money prostituting in On Friday,
Thompkins, who is from the Police report reveals more about Fox 11 News www.visionabolition.org/time/news.php [accessed 10 August 2011] A police report
sheds new light on a growing problem in the Valley, child prostitution. A
police report reveals new details of a recent prostitution ring, busted up
just a few weeks ago, involving a 12- and a 15-year-old girl. Their stories could
be about any prostitute really. The youngest one, the 12-year-old, said she
was molested by her father and a repeat runaway. Until one day at a mall she met the wrong
man. The girls were forced to work up
to 16 hours a day, walking the streets, like Keeping our teens safe from exploitation Jodi Summit, The Timberjay
Newspapers Volume 18, Issue 6 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 August 2011] Minske, from north
central The number one area
in The average age of
a teen entering prostitution is now between 13 and 14, Minske
said. Voice of www.voanews.com/content/a-13-2007-02-06-voa16-66539322/554204.html [accessed 7 October 2012] Teenage prostitutes
in the Woman Pleads Guilty to Forcing Juvenile
Girls Into Prostitution In www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/woman-pleads-guilty-to-forcing-juvenile-girls-into-prostitution-in-memphis-53807402.html [accessed 11 January 2011] At her plea
hearing, Perfecto admitted that she told the girls, who were 13 and 17 years
of age at the time, that they would be employed at a restaurant in Arrests made in forced child prostitution
case www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=6001565 [accessed 10 August 2011] Lexington County
Sheriff's Department detectives on Sunday charged three men with having sex
with a girl, now 15, whose mother forced the girl to work as a prostitute in
order to provide money to finance the mother's crack cocaine habit. The Associated Press AP, 2007 --
Information from: The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 10 August 2011] It's hard to
believe, but Chelsea Woman Convicted of Engaging in
Child Prostitution Scheme Press Release by U.S. Department of
Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/chelsea-woman-convicted-of-engaging-in-child-prostitution-scheme-reports-us-attorney-53686217.html [accessed 10 August 2011] As part of the plea
agreement, DIAZ admitted that between approximately July 2003 and May 2005,
she operated an escort service that advertised in multiple publications and
websites, and sent individuals – including minors - - on prostitution calls
in and around Harris, Quan
Fight Child Prostitution Samson Wong, Asian Week, January 12, 2007 www.asianweek.com/2007/01/12/harris-quan-fight-child-prostitution/ [accessed 10 August 2011] "This year, we
[were heading] toward over 600 arrests of girls under 18," she said.
"We didn’t know [how big the picture was]. We had a woman come in from
the Asian [Health] Clinic a year ago who said, ‘We couldn’t figure out why
these girls had so many sexually transmitted diseases, and we figured it out
that these girls are working as prostitutes.’" "What’s
troubling is that the girls are younger and younger," said Quan. "The girls that are targeted now are between
13 and 15 years old." To compare,
older high school girls are less vulnerable. "They know that they have
options; they’re stronger," she said. Women charged with offering girls for sex Josh Noel, At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 August 2011] Two The arrests are the
first time the Diane Loupe, The Sunday Paper SP, January
7-13, 2007 www.docstoc.com/docs/20084022/Atlantas-slave-trade [accessed 11 August 2011] RECRUITED IN SCHOOLS
AND CHURCHES
- Nicole’s striking good looks always attracted the attention of older men.
One 28-year-old boyfriend continued to have sex with her even after she admitted
she was 14. He invited friends to have sex with her, too. Girls such as Nicole often engage in
“survival sex”—trading sex for food or shelter—says McCullough. That’s due in
part to the fact that 68 percent of adult prostitutes were sexually abused as
children; many, like Nicole, actually became prostitutes as children. KGO-TV/DT, December 17, 2006 abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local&id=4860254 [accessed 11 August 2011] A recent
prostitution sweep conducted by Juvenile reports rape Noah Brenner, www.jhnewsandguide.com/article.php?art_id=1171 [accessed 11 August 2011] And this summer,
police broke up an alleged child prostitution ring that brought young girls
from Bought and Sold Bob Herbert, The New York Times, select.nytimes.com/2006/11/20/opinion/20herbert.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print [accessed 11 August 2011 - access
restricted] It is beyond
unusual for a mayor, especially the mayor of a city that depends as heavily
on tourism as “We take the
position in my administration that the best way to solve a problem is to face
the facts,” she said, adding: “We know the problem is here. It’s happening on
our watch. It’s unacceptable behavior, and we are
not going to stand for it. So look for us to do everything in our power to
change it.” Rising Child Prostitution in [access information unavailable] LEADERS UNITE TO
FIGHT PROSTITUTION -
Community leaders admit they let their guard down a bit, and once again young
girls are being exploited and pimped. In the last battle against the problem,
city of MAN
ACCUSED OF CHILD PROSTITUTION - In a statement to investigators, one victim said "I don't
like where I’m staying. Our mother just pimps us." The three girls,
including two sisters, say the abuse happened in Hatch's office at his used
car lot. Officials pledge to fight a rise in child
prostitution Charles A. Radin,
www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2006/10/officials_pledg.html [accessed 11 August 2011] More than 30 public
and private agencies joined today in a coalition to try counter child and
teen prostitution, a problem Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F.
Conley described as "the nation's least recognized epidemic." "Child
prostitution is trending upward," said Boston Police Superintendent
Margo Hill. "Technology has helped. Cell phones have taken a lot of it
inside. Gang affiliations (with prostitution) also are disturbing. Child prostitution becoming more common in
Arizona Melissa Phillips, 3TV reporter, AZ Family,
October 5, 2006 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 August 2011] "Child
prostitution has become and is growing epidemic in the state of Officials name sex slave suspect Gil Brady, trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_85e04b9c-c610-5c5d-9aa0-1f85e735d265.html [accessed 11 January 2011] Investigators say
the girl, who was 13 years old at the time, told a teenage girlfriend, also
alleged to have been smuggled and forced to have sex for money with many men
here, of her plan to escape to Mexico. Affidavits say the friend informed one
or both of their captors, a reportedly 32-year-old Expert says up to 600 children work city
streets nightly Harvey Rice, www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/4202815.html [accessed 11 August 2011] Two teenagers
testifying in a child sex-trafficking trial are like hundreds of child
prostitutes working the Notable New Yorkers: Rachel Lloyd Kate Sullivan, CBS Broadcasting Inc., At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 August 2011] "Most of the
time a pimp will say you are going to be famous. That's the line. Everybody's
going to love you." Like Three plead guilty to interstate
transportation of minors for prostitution At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 11 August 2011] At today’s plea
hearing, defendants admitted that in May 2005, Deric Willoughby and Brandy Shope brought two minors, aged 14 and 15, to Willoughby’s
residence in Toledo, Ohio and, along with Jennifer Huskey,
agreed to prostitute the minors. Defendant’s Shope
and Huskey instructed the minors that they would
have to engage in commercial sexual acts for money, including sexual
intercourse and oral sex, that they would be required to call Deric
Willoughby “Daddy” and that they would have to respect and obey Prostitution of Girls a Growing Problem Cultural Legacy culturallegacy.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=25220&PID=381996 [accessed 11 August 2011] The Phoenix Police Department
recently identified 60 pimps in the city bent on luring children into
prostitution — by trolling area malls. More shockingly, it's not just
happening in Bilsten warned that the
predators are targeting girls as young as 11.
"They take an average-looking girl and they go and start telling
her how beautiful she is," she told Family News in Focus. "For an
example, they say, 'Hey, we'd like you to be a model.' And, within about 90
minutes, they have this young person where they want them." Anti-trafficking expert teaches training
course Janine Zeitlin, www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/aug/18/antitrafficking_expert_teaches_training_course/?local_news [accessed 11 January 2011] Another emerging
problem in the human trafficking world is gangs, he said. Child-prostitution cases reveal cruel
underworld Judy Keen, www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-07-26-prostitution-crackdown_x.htm [accessed 11 August 2011] A harrowing picture
of the seamy world of child prostitution is emerging in court documents
stemming from a nationwide crackdown that has produced 543 arrests and 94
convictions. In Indictments of 16
people in The indictments
also said pimps from Intelligence Analyst Works to Save Kids Published: July 15, 2006 -- Source: FBI newsblaze.com/story/20060715143219tsop.nb/topstory.html [accessed 11 August 2011] I recently worked
on a major child prostitution investigation called "Precious
Cargo," which centered on sex trafficking in Man accused of pimping teenagers www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Jun/20060624News022.asp [Last access date unavailable] The teens, who had
run away from home, told police they had been working as prostitutes since
meeting Elbert at a liquor store about a month ago. They said he took all of
their earnings as payment for a place to live, clothes and food. County holds conference over exploitation
of minors Leonie Sherman, www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7044802.html [partially accessed 11 August 2011 - access
restricted] www.eastbaytimes.com/2006/04/28/conference-focuses-on-exploitation-of-minors/ [accessed 17 November 2016] Every year the
number of child prostitutes on the streets of Alameda County grows. The
number of people working to reverse this alarming trend grows just as
rapidly. Last Wednesday, more than 200
of them gathered for a two-day Sexually Exploited Minors Conference -- about
50 more people than event planners anticipated. A horrible achievement - John F. Sugg,
Creative Loafing CL Atlanta, April 26, 2006 clatl.com/atlanta/a-horrible-achievement/Content?oid=1257948 [accessed 11 August 2011] "They throw
the children in the trunk of a car, take them to another city and trade them
to another pimp," Espy says. That's a possible death sentence. At the
very least, the children know they may never see their families or homes
again. The Growing Cancer of Child Sexual
Exploitation on the Web Alexandra DeFelice,
TechNewsWorld [ECT News Network], 04/25/06 www.macnewsworld.com/story/must-read/50135.html [accessed 12 August 2011] There were also 2,669
reported incidents of online enticement of children for sexual acts, 611 for
unsolicited obscene material sent to a child, 841 misleading domain names, 1,640 reports of child sexual molestation by other than
family members, 553 of child prostitution and 202 for child sex tourism. This
practice involves adults traveling to foreign countries to engage in sexual
activity with children. It is estimated to draw more than one million
children into the sex trade each year, especially in developing countries. Three convicted of forcing child into
prostitution The Associated Press AP, March 02, 2006 www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20060302-NEWS-303029976?cid=sitesearch [accessed 12 August 2011] The defendants
transported the girl from Area Juvenile Sex Rings Targeted Using
Anti-Trafficking Laws Debbi www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/05/AR2006030501126.html [accessed 12 August 2011] They performed sex
acts with men in cheap motel rooms, alleys and the back seats of cars, they
said. Clients had 10 minutes or it cost extra. One girl, 14 when she was
recruited, said her quota was $500 a night, with various sex acts ranging in
price from $50 to $150. Three Mexican Nationals Convicted of Sex
Trafficking At one time this article had been archived and
may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 August 2011] At their
re-arraignment hearings, the men were convicted of being part of an
organization that operated between early 2004 through the summer of 2005, to
(1) recruit, entice, harbor, transport, provide and obtain young Mexican
women and girls, and benefitting financially from participating in a venture
knowing that force, fraud and coercion would be used to cause the young
Mexican women and girls to engage in commercial sex acts, and to (2) entice,
harbor, transport, provide and obtain young Mexican women and girls, and
benefit financially from participation in a venture knowing that the girls,
not yet the age of 18, would be engaging in a commercial sex act. Captive teenage cousins suffer crash course
in forced sex trade Robin Erb, www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-140666105.html [partially accessed 12 August 2011 - access
restricted] The rain began to
fall harder. The cousins, ages 14 and 15, took the adults up on their offer
of a ride. The girls later told police they picked up some Chinese takeout
and went over to a Prostitution in Region 8: Monica's Story www.kait8.com/story/4482595/prostitution-in-region-8-monicas-story?redirected=true [accessed 12 August 2011] Monica Sartin came to Crackdown exposes Toledo as a hub of teen
prostitution Robin Erb And
Roberta De Boer, www.toledoblade.com/frontpage/2006/01/08/Crackdown-exposes-Toledo-as-a-hub-of-teen-prostitution.html [accessed 12 August 2011] If the brutal world
of teenage prostitution were a legitimate business, Disturbing trend: More and more young girls
are being drawn into sex trade Karen Eschbacher,
The Patriot Ledger, January 07, 2006 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 August 2011] Prostitutes as
young as 11 or 12 are often lured into the business by pimps who promise
money, clothes and other niceties. They then work for operations that claim
to be escort services or massage parlors and recruit customers online or in
newspapers, O’Connell said. The Youngest
Profession Claudia Rowe, www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-139516179.html [partially accessed 12 August 2011 - access
restricted] SEATTLE IS A HUB FOR
LURING TEENS INTO LIVES OF PROSTITUTION - The Seattle that
Alisha knows is not a city of social liberalism or glittering scenery. For
her, it is just a series of worn-out highways where men will happily pay a
15-year-old for sex. Prostitutes in
Cyberspace The Wave Magazine At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 12 August 2011] In the past several
months, the Child
Prostitution Ring Shut Down North Country Gazette, www.northcountrygazette.org/archives.html [accessed 14 Aug 2013] [scroll down] In one of the
largest coordinated enforcement actions ever taken against child prostitution
rings in the United States, 19 individuals have been arrested and more than
30 charged in the latest phase of "Innocence Lost," an ongoing
national investigation into criminal enterprises involved in the recruitment
of children for prostitution. Area study says
female teen prostitution 'common' Jo Moreland, www.nctimes.com/news/local/sdcounty/article_f7d2d30c-f678-5a86-855e-89843f668fd2.html [accessed 12 August 2011] Based on their
experiences, the report said, most of the girls, 86 percent, engage in
prostitution at least once a week, and almost two-thirds of the girls have
pimps over the age of 18. "A lot
of these girls are runaways," said sheriff's Deputy Rick Castro, a
former Justice Department, FBI, Announce Arrests
Targeting Child Prostitution Rings in [accessed 24 February 2015] DETROIT,
MICHIGAN/HONOLULU, HAWAII - The indictment alleges that during May
2005, defendants Willoughby, Shope, Huskey, and Gordon engaged in a conspiracy to commit the
offenses of sexual exploitation of children and transportation of children
for the purposes of prostitution. Specifically, the defendants are alleged to
have transported two minor girls from their hometown of Enslaved in Tina Frundt,
Women's Funding Network, Nov 28 2005 [accessed 12 January 2011] I was
14 years old when I was forced into prostitution. Like many teens at that
age, finding my own identity and defying my parents were top on my list. So
when a man came into my life and showered me with attention and listened to
me when I complained about my parents, I did not think twice that he was ten
years my senior. After all, he said I was mature for my age and told me I
understood him better than anyone his own age. Human Trafficking Seen as Threat Within
Nation's Borders Kelli Cottrell, Baptist Press, www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?id=22118 [accessed 12 January 2011] [accessed 17 November 2016] Johnny Gosch was a victim in 1982 at age 11 when he was abducted
by kidnappers in Des Moines, Iowa, while on his newspaper route. "He was sold to an organized
pedophilia ring where rich pedophiles hire people to kidnap children and then
purchase them to molest," said Noreen Gosch,
Johnny's mother, who told the story at the conference. Johnny visited his
mother many years later in the middle of the night. He told her he had
escaped from his captors and was living undercover for fear of being killed,
she said. At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 12 August 2011] The
Martinez Police Department reports that a 22-year-old resident was arrested
Tuesday for allegedly offering her four-year-old child for sex. Police received a tip from the Runaway raped, held as sex slave Judi Villa and Lindsey Collom,
The www.operationlookout.org/Lookout_Magazine/2005/11/runaway-raped-held-as-sex-slave/ [accessed 13 June 2013] Since
September, the 15-year-old girl had been raped repeatedly, threatened with
death and sold for sex over the Internet, police said. Her captors hid the runaway in a
hollowed-out box spring covered with a piece of wood and tucked underneath a
bed in a small apartment complex adjacent to Interstate 17 in west Suspect in runaway prostitute case was
child prostitute The Associated Press AP, Nov 10, 2005 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 August 2011] Woman Tells
Terrifying Story Of Teen Prostitution www.10news.com/news/5237000/detail.html [accessed 7 October 2012] Countywide,
76 girls were arrested last year on suspicion of teen prostitution -- a 27
percent increase over a one-year period. And a majority are coerced -- some
by family or friends. Others like Sarah are forced by strangers. Sex trafficking hits home Emily Kaiser, The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 18 September 2011] You
couldn't spot them on the street, but right now there are slaves living in
local neighborhoods, hidden in basements and being transported along area
highways. The CIA estimates 50,000
women and children are transported each year throughout the To stop a forced sex trade Emily Kaiser, The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[accessed 18 September 2011] She
said she was trafficked by her family as a young girl and escaped by saving
money for college. Stark attended the University her first year and
transferred to University of Wisconsin-Madison to get away from her family. Rural Five Years After ECPAT: Fifth Report
on implementation of the Agenda for Action ECPAT International, November 2001 www.no-trafficking.org/content/web/05reading_rooms/five_years_after_stockholm.pdf [accessed 13 September 2011] [B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report by Special
Rapporteur [DOC] UN Economic and Social Council Commission
on Human Rights, Fifty-ninth session, 6 January 2003 www.unhchr.ch/Huridocda/Huridoca.nsf/0/217511d4440fc9d6c1256cda003c3a00/$FILE/G0310090.doc [accessed 13 August 2011] [77] Children in
prostitution under 18 but over the age of sexual consent may incur criminal
liability and be dealt with by a juvenile court. The age of
consent ranges from 14 to 18 years throughout the 50
states. Information was received about the particular situation of
children in prostitution in Bold
teenage prostitute wanted out of 'game'; Toledoan
is home insisting she's not afraid Robin Erb And
Roberta De Boer, www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/2006/05/15/Bold-teenage-prostitute-wanted-out-of-game-Toledoan-is-home-insisting-she-s-not-afraid.html [accessed 13 August 2011] To Jessica's
mother, transactional sex has its advantages.
"You marry a guy and you gotta give him
sex and you're not even getting basically nothing
out of it," she said. "These
ones I can send home when I'm done with them." Young
Lives For Sale - Why more kids are getting into the sex trade--and how the
feds are fighting back Bay Fang, U.S.News
& World Report, LOS ANGELES, 10/16/2005 www.humantrafficking.org/updates/278 [accessed 24 February 2015] Kristie was 13 when
she met the first of her four "daddies." She had run away from home
in the Southwest, and friends introduced her to a tall, good-looking man, who
said the red-haired teenager was sexy and had potential. Pretty soon, he had
her prostituting herself on the streets of Federal Grand Jury Indicts District Man for
Interstate Sex Trafficking and Rape of Children and Adult Females 6 October 2005 -- Source: U.S.Newswire At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 13 August 2011] The indictment
alleges that he recruited females as young as 14 years of age to engage in
prostitution for his own financial benefit. He caused these females to
prostitute in D.C. and other locations, including Teen's
Horror Story Leads To Prostitution Ring Bust Local10.com News, www.local10.com/news/5061851/detail.html [accessed 13 August 2011] A 16-year-old
runaway told her parents about the sex ring when she was returned home last
weekend. She said she met a man who said he would help her find work and a
place to stay. Then she says the man, xxxxxxxxxx,
took her into a bedroom and had sex with her to "test her employment
skills." She says he then handed her over to five men who took turns
having sex with her to induct her into the "family," a prostitution
ring In addition to
being owned and managed by xxxxxxxxx police say the
prostitution ring has an enforcer whose job was to take the girls on location
and physically enforce the rules by beating the girls if they got out of
line. Ending the quiet tragedy of modern-day
slavery Leland Y. Yee, Assembly Speaker Pro Tem,
San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2005 www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/Ending-the-quiet-tragedy-of-modern-day-slavery-2729680.php [accessed 15 August 2012] In the past 12
months, immigration agents have raided a number of suspected brothels in
quiet Ty Tagmai, www.aegis.com/news/ads/2005/AD051901.html [accessed 13 August 2011] The report found
child prostitution prevalent in rich and poor neighborhoods. Children were
forced into sex work from south Two indicted in child prostitution case www.justice.gov/usao/cac/pressroom/pr2005/099.html [accessed 13 August 2011] Specifically, Doss
and Ford allegedly conspired to recruit a 14-year-old female and a
16-year-old female to work as prostitutes for Doss. Once the victims were
recruited, the indictment alleges, the defendants transported them to various
locations in Underage
prostitution reaching crisis level on streets of Oakland genderberg.com/phpNuke/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=125 [accessed 14 August 2011] "It's a
geographic epidemic," said Nola Brantley, director of parenting and
youth enrichment for the Hanna Tamrat, www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-7003464.html [partially accessed 14 August 2011 - access
restricted] The "most
alarming thing" is the increased number of juveniles and how young the
teen prostitutes are, said Lighten. The youngest to be arrested on suspicion
of an act of prostitution was 12. More
than 800 suspected prostitutes have been arrested in the last year, said
Officer Mark Turpin of the Special Victims Unit. And, about one in every five
is a juvenile. Teen Prostitution The Guardian, March 09, 2004 www.kidsvoiceorg.com/Guardian/Episodes.aspx?episode=date20040309 [accessed 14 August 2011] [scroll down] Teen prostitution
and the sexual exploitation of children is a growing problem in the Concrete
Is Cold And Hard At Night: The Children’s Voices Jay Shaft, Coalition For Free Thought In
Media, Voices Of The Lost And Forgotten - Part Three, 18 May 2005 www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0505/S00199.htm [accessed 9 August 2011] RUNAWAY
AND DISCARDED CHILDREN
- “At least I’m not on the corner trickin’ and smokin’ rock,” she says, while missing the irony of her
statements. “If I gotta give up my ass I’m gonna do it my way. If I don’t like a guy I’m stayin’ with I just find another one. Lots of guys out
there would kill to have a fourteen year old livin’
with ‘em and givin’ up
ass.” Exploited Girls in Jim Lobe, OneWorld.net, www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0305-07.htm [accessed 14 August 2011] Children forced to
become prostitutes in the Special Report: Selling Jane O. Hansen, The At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 August 2011] "I think I
have been locked up long enough," the girl said in a small, high-pitched
voice. She began to cry and rubbed her eyes with balled-up fists. "If
you would just let me go home…"
But for children like her and her 11-year-old sister, also an alleged
prostitute, it’s not that simple. In People's Daily Online english.people.com.cn/200112/14/print20011214_86677.html [accessed 29 May 2011] Homegrown sex trafficking; Combat the
exploitation of American youth Marie Smith, The www.questia.com/library/1G1-132000263/homegrown-sex-trafficking-combat-the-exploitation [accessed 14 Aug 2013] Sex trafficking is
known to destroy the lives of women and children internationally, but it is
also "homegrown" and devastates the lives of American youth from
all economic levels. Summer is fast approaching and with it an increase in
the number of children living on the streets at risk for increased commercial
sexual exploitation. They live in fear of losing their coping mechanisms
(drugs and alcohol), and fear of losing a place to live and food to eat.
These children are also ashamed and fear their families will find out what
they have been doing. They fear the police and fear being returned home. Sex Trafficking of American Youth [PDF] Stop Trafficking! - Anti-Human Trafficking
Newsletter, Vol.4 No.3, March 2006 homepage.mac.com/srjeanschafersds/stoptraffic/archives/stoptraff43.pdf [accessed 14 August 2011] ANTI-HUMAN
TRAFFICKING NEWSLETTER - THIS ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS FACTORS AFFECTING THE
TRAFFICKING OF AMERICAN CHILDREN Kris, age 15, was
lured from a Ellen, a 16-year
old runaway, was forced to work for a NJ prostitution ring that operated out
of motels ... Debbie, 15 years
old, the middle child in a close-knit Air Force family from suburban Fact Sheet: Commercial Sexual Exploitation [PDF] United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF, 22
July 2004 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 14 June 2011] FACTS
AND FIGURES
- An estimated 2 million children, the majority of them girls, are sexually
exploited in the multi-billion dollar commercial sex industry. At the end of
2000, as many as 325,000 children were at risk of commercial sexual
exploitation in the Teen prostitution is also a suburban
problem, says former Minneapolis mayor Hofstede T.W. Budig,
Capitol Roundup, 4 November 1999 At one time this article had been archived
and may possibly still be accessible [here] [accessed 9 August 2011] The most vulnerable
category of children susceptible to becoming involved in prostitution are runaway or homeless youths, the report notes. A child is usually approached by a person
willing to pay for sex within 36 to 48 hours of the child being on the
street, the report states. While a 1997 Children of the
Night Children of the Night [accessed 7 October 2012] Children of the
Night is a privately funded non-profit organization
established in 1979 and dedicated to rescuing America's children from the
ravages of prostitution Children of the
Night
is dedicated to assisting children between the ages of 11 and 17 who are
forced to prostitute on the streets for food and a place to sleep. Homeless Kids Find Shelter at Covenant
House Covenant House www.covenanthouse.org/about-homeless-charity [accessed 9 August 2011] Covenant House
International is the largest privately-funded agency in the In addition to
food, shelter, clothing and immediate crisis care, Covenant House provides a
variety of services to homeless, runaway and throwaway youth including
medical care, educational and vocational programs, drug abuse treatment and
prevention programs, legal aid services, recreation programs, mother/child
programs, transitional living programs, life-skills training and street
outreach. The Covenant House
NINELINE (1-800-999-9999 /
www.nineline.org) received and immediately responded to more than 48,000
crisis calls from youngsters all over the City Announces
Crackdown On Child Prostitution article.wn.com/link/WNATCCDE2F5323943617EF444B509C3352D4?source= templategenerator&template=womansglobe/headlines.txt [Last access date unavailable] A Sexual Slavery in C.S.I. , February 9, 2004 -- Source: www.scientology.org/news-media/news/2004/040209.html groups.yahoo.com/group/Shetubondhon/message/7981?l=1 [accessed 8 January 2011] She was a teenage
girl from an impoverished village in Prostituted Youth in Mia Spangenberg, ECPAT-USA, 2001 www.hawaii.edu/hivandaids/Prostituted%20Youth%20in%20New%20York%20City%20%20%20%20An%20Overview.pdf [accessed 14 August 2011] www.ncjrs.gov/App/publications/Abstract.aspx?id=198146 [accessed 17 November 2016] On child
prostitution in particular, hardly any comprehensive research has been done
to document the number of prostituted children or the circumstances that have
led them into prostitution. Much less
do we provide adequate services for them. Yet, there are as many as 400,000
prostituted children in the Susanna Capelouto,
Georgia Public Radio, May 9, 2001 www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1122668 [accessed 14 August 2011] new efforts by state
and local officials to combat child prostitution in The (ongoing) LibertadLatina, July 31, 2009 www.libertadlatina.org/LatAm_US_San_Diego_Crisis_Index.htm [accessed 8 January 2011] The articles here
below describe one of the largest known child and youth sex trafficking cases
in the The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
Children In the Richard J. Estes and Neil Alan Weiner,
University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work - Center for the Study of
Youth Policy, September 18, 2001 www.sp2.upenn.edu/restes/CSEC_Files/Abstract_010918.pdf [accessed 14 August 2011] MAJOR FINDINGS - Patterns of
child sexual exploitation are fueled by: 1) the use of prostitution by
runaway and throwaway children to provide for their subsistence needs; 2) the
presence of pre-existing adult prostitution markets in the communities where
large numbers of street youth are concentrated; 3) prior history of child
sexual abuse and child sexual assault; 4) poverty; 5) the presence of large
numbers of unattached and transient males in communities--including military
personnel, truckers, conventioneers, sex tourists, among others; 6) for some
girls, membership in gangs; 7) the promotion of juvenile prostitution by
parents, older sib-lings and boy friends; 8) the recruitment of children by
organized crime units for prostitution; and, increasingly, 9) illegal
trafficking of children for sexual purposes to the U.S. from developing
countries located in Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and Central and
Eastern Europe. The Sexual Exploitation of Children - A
Working Guide to the Empirical Literature [PDF] Richard J. Estes, www.sp2.upenn.edu/restes/CSEC_Files/CSEC_Bib_August_2001.pdf [accessed 9 August 2011] [accessed 14 January 2017] [page 22, section D] RUNAWAY, "THROWAWAY" AND STREET CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES 1. Prevalence 2. Causes/Risk Factors Associated With Running Away 3. Social and Health Risks of Runaway & Street
Youth--Including Sexually Exploited Youth 4.
Gangs and Gang Culture Among Runaway/Street Youth 5. Homeless
Youth -
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