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remembering nonconsensual realities

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 [...]

Weekly news links 3/5/08

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 [...]

weekly news links 2/27/08

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 [...]

weekly news links 1/30/08

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 [...]

Weekly news links 1/23/08

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 [...]

Confidentiality for youth

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 [...]

Putting teens in psychiatric hospitals is not the answer

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 [...]

Weekly news links 1/16/08

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 [...]

new research on youth in the sex trade out of Chicago

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 [...]

Weekly news links 12/19/07

Good news from DC as Congress lifted the restriction on funding for needle exchange programs in the Capitol.
To follow up from a previous news link, in Tennessee a woman pleaded guilty to promoting prostitution and other charges involving pimping at least one teen and involving another in her efforts.
A teen girl testified in a trial [...]