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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Inside Bay Area recently did a whole series of articles on teen prostitution in the East Bay Area of California.
Nonprofit caters to needs of sexually exploited youth
When Oakland police find young girls on the street involved in prostitution, one of the first things they do is call for a counselor from MISSSEY Inc. The [...]
Here in Milwaukee, the local paper reports on recent cases of teens involved in having sex for money off Craigslist.
Last week I blogged about Dallas County needing some encouragement to take action on a strip club that had a then 12-year-old girl dancing at the club. Turns out the law didn’t specify a penalty for [...]
A national report released yesterday documents the seriously troubling results of the graduation rates across the country. Milwaukee Public Schools are at 46% with Detroit coming in last at 24.9% of high school students graduating on time. Read the report here.
Also in Detroit multiple adults were charged with felonies related to running a brothel involving [...]
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 [...]
A pending bill would make it possible for homeless youth to qualify for financial aid. As it is, if you can’t provide parental information, contribution or signatures, you can’t qualify for federal financial aid. HR 601 could fix that.
I always wondered why “child pornography” is considered so different than “child prostitution.” For example, in this [...]
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