Greg Russinger's Blog Posts Tagged 'prostitution' (12)

Undercover officers rounded up 92 people in a prostitution sweep that included the arrests of a youth minister and a man on a honeymoon. (more here)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/samuel-yoon-youth-minister_n_3272619.html

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The FBI and local law enforcement agencies rescued 79 minors during a three-day raid around the country, the agency announced.

Operation Cross Country VI targeted 57 cities nationwide, involved some 2,500…

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Just this month, a 15-year-old Long Island girl escaped from her kidnappers who drugged and gang-raped her before selling her for sex. Where did they peddle her? You guessed it: Backpage. In their letter, the AGs referenced a May 2011 incident where a 15-year-old girl was forced to have sex with various men for $100 to $150 by a Dorchester, Mass., man. Backpage helpfully provided the outlet…

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Nicholas D. Kristof

I WENT on a walk in Manhattan the other day with a young woman who once had to work these streets, hired out by eight pimps while she was just 16 and 17. She pointed out a McDonald’s where pimps sit while monitoring the girls outside, and a building where she had repeatedly been ordered online as if she were a pizza.…

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- Police said they arrested a 22-year-old after he tried to sell an underage girl for sex.Police said Kendel Morrel, 22, not only coerced a 17-year-old girl to sell herself for sex, but he also tried to sell her for a three-day period as a sex slave.Action 7 News spoke with the undercover agent who exposed the crime.“I believe whole-heartedly that this girl initially started out thinking there would be a job -- a connection possibly turning… Continue

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Laurel, Maryland (CNN) -- On a late afternoon in early June, undercover police officers circled a one-story highway motel north of Washington. Inside was a 12-year-old girl who told her mother she was

being forced to work as a prostitute.

According to her mother, the girl had started running away from home earlier this year. She found out her daughter was in the sex trade when she saw her in an

adult online classified ad. The girl was advertising herself as…

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Sen. Ron Wyden knows some people doubt Portland's ranking as second in the United States for domestic minor sex trafficking.



Wyden's experience Friday night on a ridealong with Portland police, however,

strengthened his resolve that more needs to be done to reduce the

incidence of people selling themselves for sex on the city streets,

especially females younger than 18…



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Young children are supplying an increasing demand from foreign tourists who travel to Brazil for sex holidays, according to a BBC investigation. Chris Rogers reports on how the

country is overtaking Thailand as a destination for sex tourism and on

attempts to curb the problem.

Her small bikini exposes her tiny frame. She looks no older than 13 - one of dozens of girls parading the street looking for clients in the blazing mid-afternoon

sun. Most…

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...Federal law enforcement considers Atlanta a hub for child prostitution

even after more than a decade of efforts to stamp it out. Advocates

contend at least 400 minors prostitute themselves in Georgia, mostly in

metro Atlanta, with many turning to this lifestyle at 14 or younger.

Pimps circumvent legal tactics by making the girls too loyal or too

afraid to testify. Officials debate whether these girls are victims of

sexual exploitation or… Continue

Where’s the place you can find a 1996 Kia Sephia, free used socks, and sex for a small fee? Why, Craigslist, of course! The website that made us all realize you never really need to buy anything new has come

under fire once again for its controversial sex advertisements.

A new financials evaluation of the site estimates that one-third of Craigslist’s $100+ million revenue comes via sex-related ad sales. While a lot of the bed romp classifieds are legit, there still…

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