Sheriff Hires Ex-Prostitutes, Closes Mother-Daughter Brothel

The Cook County sheriff's office has added two former prostitutes to the payroll as part of its efforts to combat the world's oldest profession, STNG Wire reports.

Sheriff Tom Dart hopes to use the women to glean inside information that will help his department target pimps and human traffickers.

"We were trying to use our brains" to fight prostitution, Dart said.

Dart's office also announced Wednesday the arrests of a west suburban mother and daughter on prostitution charges following a three month investigation.

Kimberly "Big Kim" Miniea, 49, and her 19-year-old daughter, Kimberly Petersen, 19, were charged with felony pandering and keeping a house of prostitution after authorities executed a search warrant on their Berkeley home, STNG Wire reports.

A March lawsuit Dart filed against Craigslist accusing the site of creating "the largest source of prostitution in America" contributed to the site's removal of its "erotic services" section in May.

Comments

[BARRISTER]

Is the "War on Prostitution" targeting the biggest of all Whores; the Politicians?

[Saidas]

This could easily and accurately be called the War on Prostitution and it is just as successful as the War on Drugs.

[sfirx]

Waste of time trying to get rid of something that involves two willing parties. You will never eliminate prostitution.

[rob roy]

Only a socialist, communist or fascist would oppose legalized prostitution. Any true capitalist must believe in supply and demand and that means the oldest profession should be taxed and guarded.

[MJinCanada]

The capitalist is the biggest danger to women -- the pimp most likely to neglect health care, overwork, abuse and underpay.

In some "socialist" countries, such as the Netherlands and New Zealand, prostitution is legal, licensed and has good access to health care.

[oregonbird]

It's wanted. There are people who need money and can supply the market. Now, how about giving prostitutes, call girls and cortesans some respect, legal protection and the right to work openly? Set up medical and social safeguards, issue weekly certificates, tax the proceeds. The women and men who do the work will be safer, the public will be protected from one cause of STDs, and other than the Xian right (who both loathe sex and seem to have more, and more kinky sex, than anyone else) nobody will object.

Okay, everyone will object. But insisting that selling something you OWN is illegal is, and always was, absolutely stupid. Bucket, tide.

[Tara Hurley]

Maybe prostitution should be decriminalized so we could help the women who do sex work, and not make them criminals. It would also be easier to find human traffickers if prostitution was not illegal.
Check out Happy Endings? a documentary film on the Asian massage parlors in RI where prostitution is legal behind closed doors.
http://www.happyendingsdoc.com

[Cogs]

I think there were hunters and farmers long before prostitutes. More likely the world's oddest profession.

[whocan]

Prostitutes,,,,, Hey , Maybe Letterman can call Sarah Palin's 14 yr old daughter a prostitute for laughs

[dubster]

I would laugh at that.

[BushBites]

He didn't say anything about Palin's alleged daughter.

He said it about Palin:

While reading his top ten list Monday night, "Late Show" host David Letterman said Gov. Sarah Palin bought makeup from Bloomingdale's to update her "slu.tty flight attendant" look.

[stav506]

He's talking about the joke that where A-Rod knocks up her daughter during the 7th inning stretch. Dave was joking about the unwed teen mother touting abstinance only but the Palins and their supporters are trying to twist it saying he was joking about the 14 year old daughter instead.

"But. . . but. . . only the 14 year old was with her!" - Yeah, but any SANE person that knows anything about the Palins knows what he was referencing.

I may have pointed out why the poster does not understand this. (HINT: sanity)

Also, these nuts are doing a fine job with the link for this in the Entertainment Section.

[The Ghost]

This is NOT the appropriate forum for your sexual fantasies.

[Dolmance]

There are quite a lot of people who are psychologically suited to the sex industry, and quite like the work too.

I'm afraid the world we live in is not another episode of "Law & Order," with hordes of Little Nells being forced to lay on their backs in need of immediate rescue from the clutches of a villainous trafficker in human flesh.