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weekly news reports 7/21/08

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 [...]

NOW special on child prostitution

The PBS program NOW with Maria Hinojosa and David Brancaccio just posted this week’s story which is on child prostitution. From the site:
Living in the shadows of contemporary American society are tens of thousands of underage prostitutes–desperate, exploited kids robbed of their childhood and of hope. The Department of Justice says, on any given [...]

catching up on some news links

Fewer than 3,000 websites produce bulk of child porn (international) Fewer than 3,000 English-language websites produce the bulk of child pornography images, according to the first authoritative analysis of the scale of the problem, published today. The Internet Watch Foundation, which carried out the study, says an international effort to disrupt even a [...]