Rethink Resources

I’ll update more soon but in the meantime, here are some news links for August
FBI: Couple Offered Sex With Girl, 5, for Used Car Many cases like this go through child protective services and don’t make it to the police or news media.
A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trade sex [...]

Links in the news this past week:
Authorities: Kidnapped girl rescued at motel
Police arrested a Vineland man and three other people after a Massachusetts girl called her mother to report she was being held against her will at a White Horse Pike motel…she had been threatened with a stun gun, forced to stay in various motels [...]

Which do you think is easier?
I was reminded of this question yesterday at a meeting here in Milwaukee that’s part of an effort to create a drop-in center for youth struggling with basic needs. A lot of plans have focused on connecting youth with adult run programs and agencies and that’s super common when [...]

Last month a report, “Who Pays the Price? Assessment of Youth Involvement in Prostitution in Seattle,” commissioned by the Seattle Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Prevention Division of the Human Services Department was released at a community meeting.
The report gives a lot of detail about what youth social service workers know and don’t know [...]

Ok, I’m back with some news items:
From New York, Cop guilty of pimping teen runaway:
An NYPD detective pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in pimping out a 13-year-old girl and agreed to a 3-1/2-year jail term in a deal with Queens prosecutors. The district attorney’s office said Wayne Taylor, 35, and co-defendant Zelika (Mommy [...]

Via Trudee Able-Peterson and Margo Hirsch at Safety Net for Youth
Virgin Mobile, in an effort to raise awareness about homeless youth and to provide homeless youth with donated clothing, has initiated a new website, strip2clothe.com that invites young people to submit videos of themselves stripping. American Eagle, Virgin Mobile’s clothing arm, will donate new [...]

I’m trying something new today - a way for more people to participate in this blog. It’s just three questions. What would you like to tell people about yourself? What do you wish adults would do differently or better to support youth in the sex trade? What kinds of skills and strengths do you think [...]

Today while walking to the store in my neighborhood I was, to be blunt, hollered at by some random guy driving down the street who leaned over a female companion to get my attention. In trying to keep my attention he said something that I’ve heard on other occasions: “girl, just so you know, I [...]

Yesterday reports all over the country detailed a national FBI sting operation allegedly targeting pimps who force youth into prostitution. However it’s clear from the numbers that the majority of arrests (at least 290) were of adult women alleged to have offered sex for money - adult women who could be 18 years old, 17 [...]

“345 arrested, kids rescued in prostitution busts,” that’s the headline from the Associated Press this evening. But when you read the article it turns out even though it’s framed as
Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force [...]