Human Trafficking in [USA] [other countries]Street Children in [USA] [other countries]Child Prostitution in [USA |
Child Prostitution The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of
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It points-out that “the vast
majority of youth involved in prostitution are girls, although some service
providers see an increase in the number of boys.” It notes that the
average age most girls get involved in prostitution is at 14-years and the
median age of involvement is 15.5-years. However, it reports
child prostitutes being picked up by police at only 11 or 12-years and even
9-years of age. It stresses that child prostitutes come from throughout
the country, inner-cities, suburbs and small-towns, and from all
walks-of-life. But it notes, “larger cities are more likely to have a
higher proportion of boys involved in prostitution”. [Department of
Justice, NIS-MART, 2002] There is a second, and apparently
growing, form of prostitution that is apparently “voluntary” and involves the
exchange of “favors” like dope, money or other presents. A study by
Jessica Edwards, of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, found
that an estimated 650,000 American teenagers exchange sex for favors.
More surprising, more boys were likely to sell themselves than
girls. Cops
shift focus, treat child prostitutes as victims CHANGED BY TECHNOLOGY - Police are finding the business
of prostitution is much more sophisticated than it was a decade ago. Technology, the Internet, and cell phones
have all changed the game. Pimps now use technology to sell girls as young as
11 or 12 for sex on the Internet and on the street. "The younger the girls, the more
protected by the pimp," Wiley said. When children are arrested on the
street, typically their pimps are watching from nearby, making it difficult
for police to go after them because the No. 1 rule of prostitution is to
"never give up your pimp," Saleda
said. Some prostitutes answer to a
"bottom bitch," or a senior girl tasked with disciplining, training
and collecting money. "They are
the buffer between the pimp and the girls, which makes it harder to bring a
case against a pimp," Saleda said. Many girls are manipulated and forced into
prostitution by their pimps who provide them with a replacement family for
the troubled homes they come from. Other "guerrilla pimps" rape and
beat the girls before putting them on the street. "No one wakes up in the morning and
says, 'I want to be a prostitute, this is great,'" Saleda
said. "They are constantly raped and robbed and it's glamorized in pop
culture." Teen
suicide spurs war on US prostitution At the age of 15, Samantha Walker
was lured into prostitution on the streets of How
an eastern Iowa teen prostitution, human trafficking ring took root swoplv.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/ia-how-an-eastern-iowa-teen-prostitution-human-trafficking-ring-took-root/
www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080420/NEWS06/880341325/0/deathnotices In the basement of an
ordinary-looking Film documents Valley child sex slavery struggle www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/113733 Many girls begin working the
streets before they are teenagers, and police say that prostitutes continue
to get younger because that age group generates more money. Child prostitutes are sometimes runaways or
girls with unhappy home lives, police said.
These girls are referred to as "throwaway children" - they
have no family that cares for them, and are alone. But police also are seeing
many coming from middle-class and sometimes wealthy families. "It's gotten to the point where there
is nothing specific or definite about what girls end up in
prostitution," Schemers said. Pimps, usually men younger than
25, recruit the girls from shopping malls, schools and over the Internet.
When drawing girls into the sex trade, pimps make them feel like part of a
family. But then pimps turn on the
girls and use threats and physical abuse to enslave them. "It's so powerful that once they are
brought into that environment, there's no getting out," Schemers said. The
(ongoing) San Diego, California Child Mass Sexual Slavery Scandal The articles here below describe
one of the largest known child and youth sex trafficking cases in the ***
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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. Former Child
Prostitute Tells Her Story: 'I Was So Degraded' www.fox5vegas.com/news/19828389/detail.html
"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 www1.voanews.com/english/news/a-13-2009-06-18-voa70-68740097.html
"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 www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/opinion/07kristof.html?_r=1 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 U.S. child sex trade www.nanyang100.com/world/5852.html 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 www.huffingtonpost.com/marian-wright-edelman/the-girl-next-door-may-no_b_175239.html
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 Arizona Teens
Ran Prostitution Ring, Police Say www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,499189,00.html
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 www.thetrucker.com/News/Stories/2009/1/27/Thousandsofteenssaidcaughtupinweboftruckstopprostitution.aspx
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 www.sundaypaper.com/More/Archives/tabid/98/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/3590/Atlantas-tragic-tricks.aspx
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 California County www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479289,00.html
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 genderberg.com/boards/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3628 www.columbian.com/article/20081207/NEWS02/712079963
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 Houston Men
Accused In Child Sex Ring www.click2houston.com/news/17817123/detail.html
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 actioncenter.polarisproject.org/the-frontlines/recent-federal-cases/326-connecticut-man-sentenced-to-360-months-in-prison-for-leading-brutal-sex-trafficking-ring-that-victimized-us-citizens
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 www.ecpat.net/A4A_2005/PDF/Americas/Global_Monitoring_Report-USA.pdf 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 www.wtop.com/?nid=596&sid=1457483 "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." www.counterpunch.org/rosen08022008.html
It points-out that “the vast
majority of youth involved in prostitution are girls, although some service
providers see an increase in the number of boys.” It notes that the
average age most girls get involved in prostitution is at 14-years and the
median age of involvement is 15.5-years. However, it reports
child prostitutes being picked up by police at only 11 or 12-years and even
9-years of age. It stresses that child prostitutes come from throughout
the country, inner-cities, suburbs and small-towns, and from all
walks-of-life. But it notes, “larger cities are more likely to have a
higher proportion of boys involved in prostitution”. [Department of
Justice, NIS-MART, 2002] There is a second, and apparently
growing, form of prostitution that is apparently “voluntary” and involves the
exchange of “favors” like dope, money or other presents. A study by
Jessica Edwards, of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, found
that an estimated 650,000 American teenagers exchange sex for favors.
More surprising, more boys were likely to sell themselves than
girls. Statement of
Chris Swecker Assistant Director, Criminal
Investigative Division www.fbi.gov/congress/congress05/swecker060705.htm 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 www.nytimes.com/2008/07/29/opinion/29tue2.html?_r=1&ref=opinion 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 www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=544 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. U.S. sex
trade consumes thousands of children www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=186462 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. New
York struggles over child prostitution - Criminals or abuse victims? www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/07/18/new_york_struggles_over_child_prostitution/ 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 "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 www.abc15.com/news/local/story/2-child-prostitutes-discovered-in-Phoenix-6-males/c43PzQLAQEiL09_pvagPaQ.cspx Officers discovered two minors
involved in prostitution during a sweep in 'Innocence
Lost' initiative rescuing child prostitutes 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 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 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 [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 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. Cops
shift focus, treat child prostitutes as victims CHANGED BY TECHNOLOGY - Police are finding the business
of prostitution is much more sophisticated than it was a decade ago. Technology, the Internet, and cell phones
have all changed the game. Pimps now use technology to sell girls as young as
11 or 12 for sex on the Internet and on the street. "The younger the girls, the more
protected by the pimp," Wiley said. When children are arrested on the
street, typically their pimps are watching from nearby, making it difficult
for police to go after them because the No. 1 rule of prostitution is to
"never give up your pimp," Saleda
said. Some prostitutes answer to a
"bottom bitch," or a senior girl tasked with disciplining, training
and collecting money. "They are
the buffer between the pimp and the girls, which makes it harder to bring a
case against a pimp," Saleda said. Many girls are manipulated and forced into
prostitution by their pimps who provide them with a replacement family for
the troubled homes they come from. Other "guerrilla pimps" rape and
beat the girls before putting them on the street. "No one wakes up in the morning and
says, 'I want to be a prostitute, this is great,'" Saleda
said. "They are constantly raped and robbed and it's glamorized in pop
culture." How
an eastern Iowa teen prostitution, human trafficking ring took root swoplv.wordpress.com/2008/04/23/ia-how-an-eastern-iowa-teen-prostitution-human-trafficking-ring-took-root/
www.gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080420/NEWS06/880341325/0/deathnotices In the basement of an
ordinary-looking 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. Film documents Valley child sex slavery struggle www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/113733 Many girls begin working the
streets before they are teenagers, and police say that prostitutes continue
to get younger because that age group generates more money. Child prostitutes are sometimes runaways or
girls with unhappy home lives, police said.
These girls are referred to as "throwaway children" - they
have no family that cares for them, and are alone. But police also are seeing
many coming from middle-class and sometimes wealthy families. "It's gotten to the point where there
is nothing specific or definite about what girls end up in
prostitution," Schemers said. Pimps, usually men younger than
25, recruit the girls from shopping malls, schools and over the Internet.
When drawing girls into the sex trade, pimps make them feel like part of a
family. But then pimps turn on the
girls and use threats and physical abuse to enslave them. "It's so powerful that once they are
brought into that environment, there's no getting out," Schemers said. Report: NW a ripe ground for child prostitution www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_032808_news_human_trafficking_prostitution.c5a29c4.html The preliminary report, released
this week, describes FBI: Pimps force child prostitutes into underground
networks www.khou.com/news/local/stories/khou080325_tnt_childprostitution.279a0001.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here] 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 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 www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/victim-of-human-trafficking-ring-shares-her-story-93689.html
Targeted by a criminal ring of
human traffickers operating near Human
trafficking steps from the shadows berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2008/03/12_trafficking.shtml 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 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 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 www.abc15.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=a7f7acac-a4b6-465c-942b-a3bf6bf5d624 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Police said 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 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 An 18-year-old woman has been
charged with prostituting a child after advertising on the Internet,
officials say. Suburban
Houston mom accused of prostituting her child For the second time in as many
weeks, a This is the second case in less
than a week involving a ARIZONA:
DVD Reveals Risk of Child Prostitution And according to an undercover
sergeant with the Teen
suicide spurs war on US prostitution At the age of 15, Samantha Walker
was lured into prostitution on the streets of allafrica.com/stories/200711051563.html 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 www.mediarights.org/news/2007/11/01/report_from_toronto_2007_very_young_girls At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 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 www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/101207kvuechildpimp-mm.16579489b.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 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. 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. www.kuam.com/news/24280.aspx At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 - Students Take Action SEX TRAFFICKING AWARENESS AND
PREVENTION COLLEGE MATERIALS - Are you a student or professor who wants to raise awareness about
sex trafficking and modern-day slavery? Shared Hope International’s Sex Trafficking Awareness and Prevention
College Materials includes two ground-breaking documentaries with
undercover footage from sex markets around the world, educational Power Point
presentations, discussion guides and other valuable resources. Help prevent
the horrors of modern-day slavery by educating your community. Middle
Tennessee sees rise in human trafficking 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 Houston
Mother Accused Of Child Prostitution mamatales7.blogspot.com/2007/06/houston-mother-accused-of-child.html www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=6655994 A Funds
Earmarked for Young American Prostitutes in Atlanta 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 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 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 www.fox11az.com/news/topstories/stories/kmsb-20070314-KTVKjc-phxprostitution.118db636.html 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 www.timberjay.com/current.php?article=3033 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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. Los
Angeles Charity Rescues Teen Prostitutes in US Teenage prostitutes in the Woman
Pleads Guilty to Forcing Juvenile Girls Into Prostitution In Memphis 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 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. kingofpimps.com/php-files/print.php?type=N&item_id=194 It's hard to believe, but Chelsea
Woman Convicted of Engaging in Child Prostitution Scheme 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 "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 mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=38004 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Two The arrests are the first time the
www.docstoc.com/docs/20084022/Atlantas-slave-trade kingofpimps.com/php-files/readarticle.php?article_id=98 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. Oakland
Sees Spike In Child Prostitution A recent prostitution sweep
conducted by And this summer, police broke up
an alleged child prostitution ring that brought young girls from Exposing
the dark underworld of Atlanta It is beyond unusual for a mayor,
especially the mayor of a city that depends as heavily on tourism as But that's not stopping Ms.
Franklin. "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 America [scroll down] 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 [scroll down] 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 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 www.azfamily.com/news/local/stories/KTVKLNews20061005_child-prostitution.d45f9b1.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
"Child prostitution has
become and is growing epidemic in the state of Officials
name sex slave suspect trib.com/news/state-and-regional/article_85e04b9c-c610-5c5d-9aa0-1f85e735d265.html www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2006/09/21/news/wyoming/a5bdcb468a2de556872571ef008133cd.txt 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:
Up to 600 child prostitutes on Houston streets Two teenagers testifying in a
child sex-trafficking trial are like hundreds of child prostitutes working
the Notable New Yorkers: Rachel Lloyd wcbstv.com/seenon/local_story_247230333.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
She is the kind of woman many
would have counted out, having seen and experienced atrocious abuse. But it
was that abuse that fueled her ability to make a powerful difference. Three plead guilty to interstate transportation of minors
for prostitution detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel06/de082806.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 culturallegacy.org/templates/System/details.asp?id=25220&PID=381996 www.newsbull.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=35895&pollresults=1 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 Another emerging problem in the
human trafficking world is gangs, he said. Child-prostitution
cases reveal cruel underworld 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. Intelligence
Analyst Works to Save Kids I recently worked on a major child
prostitution investigation called "Precious Cargo," which centered
on sex trafficking in Man held on $50,000 bond in child prostitution case www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/07/11/man_held_on_50000_bond_in_child_prostitution_case/ Victor Diaz, 23, and his niece,
Evelyn Diaz, 22, of Prosecutors allege that between
2003 and 2005, the couple operated an escort service that sent adults and
children on prostitution calls around Man accused of pimping teenagers www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Jun/20060624News022.asp 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 www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-7044802.html Every year the number of child
prostitutes on the streets of A
horrible achievement - Atlanta's child prostitution business is booming "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 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 fleshploitation.blogspot.com/2006/03/three-mass-residents-convicted-of.html www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/28/three_convicted_of_forcing_child_into_prostitution/ The defendants transported the
girl from Area
Juvenile Sex Rings Targeted Using Anti-Trafficking Laws 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 houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel06/ho20606a.htm At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 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 Monica Sartin
came to Crackdown
exposes Toledo as a hub of teen prostitution If the brutal world of teenage prostitution
were a legitimate business, Disturbing trend: More and more young girls are being
drawn into sex trade ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2006/01/07/news/news02.txt At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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. Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins a Sordid
Online World Justin's dark coming-of-age story is
a collateral effect of recent technological advances. Minors, often under the
online tutelage of adults, are opening for-pay pornography sites featuring
their own images sent onto the Internet by inexpensive Webcams. And they
perform from the privacy of home, while parents are nearby, beyond their
children's closed bedroom door. 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. In the past several months, the Child Prostitution Ring Shut Down In one of the largest coordinated
enforcement actions ever taken against child prostitution rings in the Area study says female teen prostitution
'common' 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 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 America: Sex Trafficking in the United States 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 www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=22118 www.lifeway.com/lwc/article_main_page/0,1703,A%253D161387%2526M%253D50011,00.html Johnny Gosch was a victim in 1982 at age 11 when he was abducted
by kidnappers in cbs5.com/local/local_story_315105708.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1109girlrescue09.html www.operationlookout.org/lookoutmag/Runaway_raped.htm 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 www.kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4100972&nav=menu216_5 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
Woman Tells Terrifying Story Of Teen Prostitution 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 www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/10/31/65875 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 www.mndaily.com/articles/2005/10/31/65899 At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 ECPAT: Fifth Report on implementation of the Agenda for
Action [DOC] www.ecpat.net/eng/Ecpat_inter/publication/other/english/Doc_page/ecpat_5th_a4a_2001_full.doc At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
[B]
COUNTRY UPDATES – Report
by Special Rapporteur [DOC] [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 The
Life of a Teenage Prostitute 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." WHY MORE
KIDS ARE GETTING INTO THE SEX TRADE--AND HOW THE FEDS ARE FIGHTING BACK - 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 www.p86.net/federal_grand_jury_indicts_district_man_for_interstate_sex_trafficking_and_rape_of_children_and_adult_fgf.aspx 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 Ending
the quiet tragedy of modern-day slavery In the past 12 months, immigration
agents have raided a number of suspected brothels in quiet GEORGIA:
Child Prostitution: The Hidden Crime 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 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 "It's a geographic
epidemic," said Nola Brantley, director of parenting and youth
enrichment for the Oakland
police net 34 in prostitution sting www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P2-7003464.html findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20050604/ai_n15833736 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. THE
GUΛRDIΛN - Children's issues addressed in each week's episode [scroll down] TEEN PROSTITUTION - 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 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
U.S. Seek Same Protection Afforded Foreign Women www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0305-07.htm www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines04/0305-07.htm Children forced to become
prostitutes in the Special
Report: Selling Atlanta’s Children "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 Thailand
Ranks Third in Number of Child Prostitution – [Editor’s note: U.S.A Ranks Second] Statement
of Chris Swecker Assistant Director, Criminal
Investigative Division, FBI 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. Homegrown
sex trafficking; Combat the exploitation of American youth 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] This issue highlights factors
affecting the trafficking of American children Fact
Sheet: Commercial Sexual Exploitation 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 www.hometownsource.com/capitol/1999/november/1104teens.html At one time this article had been
archived and may possibly still be accessible [here]
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 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. Covenant House New York is the
nations largest adolescent care agency serving homeless, runaway and at-risk
youth. Our doors are open 24 hours a day for youth in need. Each year nearly
7,000 youth seek out our Crisis and Community Centers for safety, shelter,
food, and someone to talk to – and that’s just the beginning! Covenant House begun over 30 years
ago when six young runaways were given shelter from a snowstorm, in the lower
east side of City
Announces Crackdown On Child Prostitution A Sexual
Slavery in Southern California Today? Epidemic, say officials groups.yahoo.com/group/Shetubondhon/message/7981?l=1 www.scientology.org/news-media/news/2004/040209.html She was a teenage girl from an
impoverished village in Prostituted
Youth in New York City: An Overview [PDF] 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 Atlanta
Combats Child Prostitution Georgia Public Radio reports on
new efforts by state and local officials to combat child prostitution in The
(ongoing) San Diego, California Child Mass Sexual Slavery Scandal The articles here below describe
one of the largest known child and youth sex trafficking cases in the CSEC in the U. S., diary.bluemango.in/?p=35 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] [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
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