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FEATURED ARTICLES *** Teen Prostitution in David Rosen, CounterPunch,
August 2 / 3, 2008 www.counterpunch.org/rosen08022008.html [accessed 9 August 2011] 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 Kamika Dunlap, The www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_9024564 [accessed 9 August 2011] 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 Mickey Goodman, Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/2007/11/28/us-usa-prostitution-children-idUSN0736630420071128?sp=true [accessed 9 August 2011] At the age of 15, Samantha Walker
was lured into prostitution on the streets of How an eastern Jennifer Hemmingsen, The
Gazette, April 20, 2008 [accessed 9 January 2011] In the basement of an
ordinary-looking Willia msburg home, the 13-year-old girl was
given a choice. Either she would have sex with two men nearly twice her age
or she would be given back to her kidnapper. Already in the week since Demont Bowie told the suburban Film documents Valley child sex slavery struggle www.eastvalleytribune.com/article_3d7bbf60-7e43-5395-b0da-bac14f158ff8.html [accessed 9 August 2011] 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) 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 ***
ARCHIVES *** 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. Former Child Prostitute Tells Her Story: 'I Was So
Degraded' fox5vegas.com, 23 June 2009 [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 [accessed 9 August 2011] 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." Teen Prostitution in David Rosen, CounterPunch,
August 2 / 3, 2008 www.counterpunch.org/rosen08022008.html [accessed 9 August 2011] 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. 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 www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=186462 [accessed 9 August 2011] 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 www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Default.aspx?id=157352 [accessed 9 August 2011] 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] 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. Cops shift focus, treat child prostitutes as victims Kamika Dunlap, The www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_9024564 [accessed 9 August 2011] 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 Jennifer Hemmingsen, The
Gazette, April 20, 2008 [accessed 9 January 2011] In the basement of an
ordinary-looking Kamika Dunlap and Barbara Grady, Mercury
News, [accessed 10 August 2011] 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/article_3d7bbf60-7e43-5395-b0da-bac14f158ff8.html [accessed 9 August 2011] 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 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, [accessed 10 August 2011] 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 www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/55137 [accessed 10 August 2011] 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] 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 Teen suicide spurs war on Mickey Goodman, Reuters, www.reuters.com/article/2007/11/28/us-usa-prostitution-children-idUSN0736630420071128?sp=true [accessed 9 August 2011] At the age of 15, Samantha Walker
was lured into prostitution on the streets of 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
- Students Take Action www.sharedhope.org/involved/students_involved.asp [Last access date unavailable] 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 John Bowman, For The Tennessean Advertisement, 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 [accessed 10 August 2011] 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/english/news/a-13-2007-02-06-voa16-66539322.html?CFTOKEN=74009676&CFID=109728002 [accessed 10 August 2011] Teenage prostitutes in the Woman Pleads Guilty to Forcing Juvenile Girls Into
Prostitution In [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 [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] Every year the number of child
prostitutes on the streets of 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 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. Through His Webcam, a Boy Joins
a Sordid Online World Kurt Eichenwald, The New York
Times, December 19, 2005 www.nytimes.com/2005/12/19/national/19kids.ready.html?ex=1292648400&en=aea51b3919b2361a&ei=5090 [accessed 12 August 2011] 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. 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/articles/121605ChildProstitutionRing.html [accessed 12 August 2011] In one of the largest coordinated
enforcement actions ever taken against child prostitution rings in the 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 www.missingkids.com/missingkids/servlet/NewsEventServlet?LanguageCountry=en_US&PageId=2217 [accessed 12 August 2011] 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] Johnny Gosch was a victim in 1982 at age 11 when he was abducted
by kidnappers in 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.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/1109girlrescue09.html [accessed 12 January 2011] 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 12 January 2011] 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, [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 Bay Fang, U.S.News & World
Report, LOS ANGELES, 10/16/2005 www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/051024/24sextraffickers.htm [accessed 13 August 2011] 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/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/02/17/EDG6VBC64E1.DTL [accessed 14 January 2011] 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 goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-4129784/Homegrown-sex-trafficking-Combat-the.html [accessed 9 August 2011] 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 www.childrenofthenight.org/home.html [accessed 9 August 2011] 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] 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] [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
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