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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 10/10/07

In this week’s news items that caught my attention:
In the tri-state area of Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia, a man plead guilty to conspiracy charges of convincing a teen girl to leave home and taking her to Florida where he pimped her out.
In Baltimore a woman is charged with multiple counts of pimping out a [...]

Weekly news updates 7/18/07

This week in the news, clothing confiscated from a police officer accused of sexually assaulting a teenager arrested for prostitution has gone missing with only a month before his trial is set to start.
Three different arrests and charges point to specific kinds of experiences in the sex trade.
For girls in pimp-controlled networks, branding and tattooing [...]

more news items for the week

As if to prove my point from this post, police from a suburb of Chicago arrested a 17 year old (with an adult male and an adult woman) and charged her with running an escort service using Craigslist.
Although just a year ago she had been arrested at 16 with her mother for prostitution (that case [...]