Super Bowl Sex Trafficking: Indiana Leaders Races To Pass Legislation Before Event

INDIANAPOLIS -- Indiana political leaders are looking to fast-track sex-trafficking legislation before football fans flood Indianapolis for the Super Bowl.

Gov. Mitch Daniels, Attorney General Greg Zoeller, Logansport Republican Sen. Randy Head and other leaders say they want to arm prosecutors with more tools to combat an expected rise in prostitution that has accompanied the Super Bowl in other cities.

They cite estimates that the 2010 Super Bowl brought 10,000 prostitutes to Miami and resulted in 133 arrests in Dallas at the 2011 Super Bowl. Daniels called the practice "abominable" during the rollout of his 2012 legislative agenda.

Daniels said Friday that lawmakers are looking to speed the legislation through when they start the 2012 session Jan. 4. The Super Bowl is Feb. 5.

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[Tammy Conkright]

09:33 PM on 01/31/2012

THOSE LADYS THAT DO THAT OUGHT TO BE LOCKED UP AND THROWED THE KEY AWAY AND NEVER EVER LET OUT IN THE SOCIETY TODAY THATS IS NASTY, GROSS, WHO EVER DOES THIS OUGHT TO BE ASHEMED OF THERE SELF TRYING TO SELL THERE SELF OUGHT BE LIKE DRUG USER,S SPEND TIME IN PRISON FOR DOING PROSITUTION AND GET LIKE 100 YEARS IN PRISON OR 70 YEARS IN PRISON AND BE LIKE SELLING DRUGS TO SOME 1 THOSE PEOPLE WHO DO THAT THEY OUGHT TO THROW THE KEYS AWAY AND NEVER LET THEM BACK IN TO THE SOCIETY TODAY ,I SAY GO GET THEM POLICE MEN I AM ALL FOR YOU ARRESTING THEM TO I HOPE YOU GET MORE MORE IN INDIANAPOLIS THEN THAT COUNT BE LIKE ABOUT 200 OR 3OOO I HOPE TYHEY ALL GET CAUGHT WHO EVER DOES THIS TO

[west699]

03:22 PM on 01/02/2012

Critics blame some women’s groups for the prostitution myth as they try to raise awareness without facts.
No one disputes that trafficking is a serious and sickening problem, but whether the Super Bowl intensifies it is a prediction no one can yet prove.

Dallas TV News show about super bowl sex slave myth:

http://www.wfaa.com/sports/football/super-bowl/Super-Bowl-prostitution-prediction-has-no-proof–114983179.html

Video only:

http://www.wfaa.com/v/?i=114983179

Research report on sorting out the myths and facts about sex trafficking at sporting events: http://www.gaatw.org/publications/WhatstheCostofaRumour.11.15.2011.pdf

http://bebopper76.wordpress.com

[Savage Saint Roger]

05:51 AM on 12/21/2011

Make another law! We can't have too many laws!
Let's get the schools straightened out, feed the hungry, take care of the sick...Oh wait, those aren't marketable priorities but easy money steming from fines levied by the self righteous, now that's something they can sink their teeth into! Prostitution is already illegal, now they plan to make it more illegal. Imagine that. Better to regulate it by licensing and med checks and get over the need to save everyone from themselves!
Y'all should probably stay home instead of coming to the Super Bowl, no one is allowed to have fun in Indiana, we haven't been able to since...statehood.
In Indiana now, a designated driver can be arrested for having drunk people in the car!
And that is the state you're coming to, to have a good time.

[powerage]

03:03 AM on 12/21/2011

They make it sound as if there are not already laws on the books that protect children from these type of sex crimes or any other abuse or laws against pimping & prostitution. Am I understanding correctly that existing laws do not protect children from these types of crimes simply because someone abducts them and transports them over state lines? What am I missing here? Another substandard article & the accompanying AP video is even less informative...thanks so much HP.

[Savage Saint Roger]

05:56 AM on 12/21/2011

That's Indiana, we can't have too many laws to make sure the laws that we have are even more "lawed up"! It's a very restrictive state to live in but then It's primarily republican so one can't expect anything but oppression.

[powerage]

06:31 AM on 12/21/2011

I'm an Indiana boy myself. I was born in Richmond but live out here in CA now. Its just a tad more liberal out here .lol Anyway, I just cant help but think there has to be more to the story than what is written here in the text. I suppose anything to protect the children cant be bad but it does sound like overkill to me. Thank you for replying. I do appreciate it.

[Connie Markley Boppre]

07:13 PM on 12/20/2011

um, if there were no demand, there wouldn't have to be a supply. maybe men should stop buying hookers on the street

[Luc A Taylor]

06:48 PM on 12/20/2011

OMG. Every single year it's the same made up hysteria crap that gets refuted. They are still repeating the debunked 100 to 300 thousand trafficked children number? And racing to pass to laws to make something illegal . . . that's already illegal. Bravo bravo!

[powerage]

03:25 AM on 12/21/2011

Exactly it makes absolutely no sense to me. I dont know... It sounds more possibly like diversionary tactics to draw attention away from something on the sly or work that ISNT getting done or STONEWALLING something which actually should be getting done in the state legislature. Dont existing laws already protect children from these types of sex/abuse crimes? I could be wrong, but I would thnk they do.

[jsand96876]

04:24 AM on 12/20/2011

I'm sorry dude bu if you have to pay for sex you really need help. I don't care how hot a broad is.

[Savage Saint Roger]

05:59 AM on 12/21/2011

They are paying for secrecy! Wives can react harshly about things like that.

[vaeho]

06:58 PM on 12/19/2011

maybe they don't cover Super Bowl sex.

[neorant]

01:18 PM on 12/19/2011

Geez make it legal and tax it

[SteveStephens]

02:49 PM on 12/19/2011

Yes, take all those energies and resourses to try to stem and prevent the epidemic of gun crimes . But this country is too stupid to try to do something like that.

[SteveStephens]

02:50 PM on 12/19/2011

Prositituon is rampant in the Bible , for God's Sakes. Why are we still worried about it?

[Connie Markley Boppre]

07:14 PM on 12/20/2011

government is worried cuz they aren't getting any tax income on it.

[Savage Saint Roger]

06:01 AM on 12/21/2011

It's a smoke screen as usual. When they pass whatever law they make up, a banker will add a predatory lending right to it and all will be well because the righteous don't care about bankers screwing, just other people.

[walkerhds]

01:18 PM on 12/19/2011

what, the current, "no performing sex for money" statutes aren't enforceable? Unless things have changed, I thought prostitution was illegal in IN.