In this week’s news:
In NYC, a veteran police detective is charged with pimping out a 13 year old girl.
A guilty plea from a man charged with gang rape, kidnapping and forcing a 15 year old into prostitution in Arizona.
A major trial continues in Alaska against a man charged in federal court with sex trafficking and [...]
In this week’s news:
A Seattle man is charged with raping and pimping out a 12 year old who he met walking down the street.
Outside of San Diego a man is on trial for trying to force 4 teenage girls into prostitution. They are testifying about what happened and how they escaped by finding the right [...]
In my experience, confidentiality means something much more extensive to youth than it does to adults. For adults in the social service world it can mean that as long as the information stays inside the agency, it’s kept confidential. Most of the youth I know expect that, with the requisite exceptions, something I tell one [...]
I don’t know if you caught a detail from my post on Tuesday about the recent research out of Chicago about youth in the sex trade.
But the law enforcement person I quoted from the report talked about sharing the frustration of youth, who lacking a safe place to stay and having reported involvement in the [...]
I’m back with a whole month’s worth of news links.
Lots of news about arrests of five teens and two adults for sexually assaulting and pimping out teen girls in Fort Worth Texas.
A man was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison in Missouri for forcing teen girls into prostitution and to pay over a [...]
So the report “The commercial sexual exploitation of children and youth in Illinois” from the research funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and conducted by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority has been released officially. You can find the whole research report here and the research brief here.
I consulted on the [...]
This work is difficult enough to do. When you find allies and friends along the way; you hold onto them fiercely. I’m so very sad to say here that a friend of mine, Lisa Tonna, passed away yesterday morning in Chicago.
She was a well known trainer and facilitator on anti-violence work in queer communities. She [...]
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