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Meanwhile lots of news items to note the past few weeks about youth in the sex trade and related issues:
In Texas everyone is shocked to learn of a 13 year old possibly recruiting other girls into the sex trade.
A report details research on minors involved in the sex trade in several US cities, here Tampa [...]

I haven’t posted while this whole scandal broke out the past couple of weeks. I tried to stay from it actually. Like many people who work directly with people involved in the sex trade when the media gets a hold of a story about prostitution - I want to run in the other direction.
Now this [...]

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to present a staff training on working with youth in the sex trade for St. Rose Youth and Family Center here in Milwaukee. St. Rose offers a lot of programs including therapeutic day education and residential programs for girls ages 12-18.
I’ve noticed how, even when presenting similar [...]

Here are a few news links that caught my eye this week…
In Indiana a women pleaded guilty to prostituting her pre-teen daughter. The girl told a school counselor and that’s how police found out.
As I’ve mentioned before, the number of articles on arrests for child porn (viewing, trading and creating) are too numerous for me [...]

For anyone who can make it to Chicago - I’ll be presenting on March 21st with the Chicago Harm Reduction Training Collaborative on Legal Rights for People in the Street Economy.
I love doing this workshop. I’ll be talking about your legal rights when dealing with police and what to do no matter if you’ve done [...]

I have a lot on my mind lately. I do plan on blogging more in the days to come. For right now, I have a whole month of news updates. Many news links came to my attention but I’ve chosen just a few to link to today.
Read about an ordinance in Portland, Oregon targeting homeless [...]

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 [...]