Child Prostitution

'Boom Boom Room' Operator Sentenced

Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: US Marshals, Broward Crime, Video, Pimp-Arrested, James Mozie, Florida Crime, Fbi, Broward Sheriff's Office, Child Prostitution, Underage-Prostitution, Miami Crime, Boom Boom Room, The Boom Boom Room Florida Arrest, Boom Boom Room Life Sentence, The Boom Boom Room, Miami News

The accused operator of Oakland Park's notorious "Boom Boom Room" was sentenced to life in federal prison for the sex trafficking of minors and produc...

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100 Girls a Night

Alisha L. Gordon, M.Ed. | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Atlanta, Atlanta Sex Trafficking, Sex Trafficking, Power & Politics, Child Sex Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Video, Black Voices News

When I was in high school, I remember a few girls who were "stripping" for money after school; I'm not quite sure what happened to them. The fact that I don't know speaks to a greater problem that the city of Atlanta has had for a long time: child sex trafficking.

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Florida Mom Pimped 6-Year-Old Daughter For Money, Drugs, Cops Say

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 03.08.2012

Read More: Video, Child Abuse, Rape, Child Rape, Dalina Nicholas, Crime, Crime News, Mug Shots, Quinn Brooks, Florida, Georgia, John Hagans, Child Prostitution, Jacksonville Beach, Norman Thompson, Crime News

A Florida mother has been jailed in Georgia, accused of prostituting her 6-year-old daughter to support herself and her drug habit. Police in Colum...

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Is the Superbowl the Largest Child Sex Trafficking Event in the US?

Soraya Chemaly | Posted 04.06.2012

Read More: Indiana Senate, Child Prostitution, Super Bowl, Slavery, Human Trafficking, Super Bowl Committee, Football for Good, Dna Foundation, Demi Moore, Adrian Peterson, Ashton Kutcher, Superbowl, Women News

The Super Bowl is known for the bacchanalia that surrounds it. However, we don't typically think of the illegal prostitution of minors at the same time.

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Nicholas Kristof Blasts Backpage For Aiding Child Prostitution

The Huffington Post | Simon McCormack | Posted 03.27.2012

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New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof has penned a scathing piece about Backpage and the site's links to child prostitution. Kristof desc...

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The Truth About Modern Sex Slaves

Corban Addison | Posted 03.27.2012

Read More: Sex Slavery, Sex, Child Sex Trade, Indian Sex Trade, Sex Trade, Child Slavery, Child Sex Slavery, Child Prostitution, Prostitution, Books News

There are more slaves in the world today than were taken from Africa in the four centuries of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade--over 27 million. Of those, two million are children exploited in the commercial sex trade.

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Florida Community Rallies In Support Of 8-Year-Old Girl Allegedly Forced Into Prostitution

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Holidays, Video, Child Abuse, Sue Ellen Mims, Crime News, Crime, Christmas, Donating to Charity, Panama City, Florida, Donations, Child Prostitution, Crime News

It's hard to get into the Christmas spirit when you hear a mother in your community allegedly offered up her 8-year-old daughter for prostitution, but...

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Making Sex Workers Visible in the Village Voice Ad Controversy

Michelle Chen | Posted 01.18.2012

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Women, Prostitution, Human Rights, Children, Sex Workers, Labor Rights, Village Voice Media, Sex Offenders, Child Prostitution, Feminism, Village Voice, Human Trafficking, Media News

The perspectives of sex workers are sidelined in the public discourse on sex ads. Of the many politically savvy voices that fill the debate, few belong to the human beings on whose bodies this culture war is being waged.

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'She Makes Money Any Way She Knows How'

California Watch | Posted 12.18.2011

Read More: Child Prostitution, Oakland Prostitution, Oakland Sex Trafficking, Oakland Child Prostitution, San Francisco News

Oakland teenager Daisy Armstrong held the audience at the city's First Unitarian Church captive with her spoken-word performance. "She makes money ...

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Former Sportscaster Pleads Guilty In Child Prostitution Case

New York Post | LAURA ITALIANO | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Marvell Scott Child Prostitution Case, Child Prostitution, Marvell Scott Case, Marvell Scott Pleads Guilty, Crime, Marvell Scott, Crime News

Disgraced WABC sportscaster Marvell Scott will serve only 20 days of community service after pleading guilty in a sickening child prostitution rap. ...

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Sunflower, Wild Oats Founder Resigns After Child Prostitution Arrest

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wild Oats, Sunflower Farmers Market, Michael Gilliland, Wild Oats Founder, Child Prostitution, Gilliland Resigns, Online Sex Sting, Denver News

PHOENIX — The founder of two chains of natural foods grocery stores has resigned after he was arrested in a child prostitution sting in Phoenix....

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Sex Trafficking In The United States: Children Across America Are Unseen Victims

Mickey Goodman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sex Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Trafficking, La Impact, Human Trafficking, Sex Trafficking in the United States, Child Sex Trafficking, Impact News

Julie is just one of the young girls Lee has rescued since she founded Children of the Night in 1979.

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End Slavery Now

AnnaLynne McCord | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Southeast Asia, Child Sex Trafficking, Human Rights, Somaly Mam, Slavery, Cambodia, Sex Trafficking, Nicholas Kristof, AnnaLynne McCord, Child Prostitution, Rape, Somaly-Mam-Foundation, Sexual Slavery, Human Trafficking, Impact News

A true heroine of our time, Somaly was sold into slavery at age 12 and forced to work in a brothel. Somaly managed to escape her captors, vowing to never forget those left behind.

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FBI Shuts Down U.S. Child Slavery Ring

AP | ALICIA A. CALDWELL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Washington DC, Operation-Cross-Country, Child Prostitution, Child Slavery, Fbi, Impact News

WASHINGTON — More than five dozen child prostitutes have been found in the last three days as part of a nationwide crackdown on the sexual explo...

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The Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children in NYC - An Update

Lia Petridis Maiello | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gems, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, Child Prostitution, Ecpat, New York News

The commercial sexual exploitation of children or, colloquially, child prostitution, is nothing New Yorkers would expect in their own back yards.

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Susan Sarandon Campaigns Against Prosecution Of Child Sex Slaves

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Safe Harbor Laws, Sex Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Somaly Mam, Susan Sarandon, The Body Shop, The Barnaba Institute, The Somaly Mam Foundation, Ecpat-USA, love146, Impact News

Susan Sarandon has joined other celebrities and activists -- including Somaly Mam, a sexual slavery survivor and major force in the fight against chil...

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Brilliant Film Premiers Monday in NYC, Offering Solution to Global Child Exploitation

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

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Not often does a filmmaker present both an untenable social problem - and its solution. Not often is its filmmaker an artist as well as a banker and ...

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Franck Ribery, French Soccer Star, Questioned In Child Prostitution Probe

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Champs-Elysees, Franck Ribery Child Prostitution, French Football Team, French Soccer Team, Child Prostitution Paris, France, Franck Ribery, France Soccer, Sidney Govou, France Soccer Team, Child Prostitution, Child Prostitution France, World News

France's international soccer team has become mired in scandal after two of its most famous players were called in for questioning by police investiga...

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Craig, Please Listen to Us

Malika Saada Saar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Prostitution, Sex Trafficking, Craig Newmark, Child Prostitution, Human Trafficking, Craigslist, Impact News

These are the stories of two sex trafficking survivors who were sold by traffickers on Craigslist. Now, they are speaking out to urge Craig Newmark to put an end the Adult Services section.

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Pornland, Oregon: Child Prostitution in Portland

Dan Rather | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Portland Oregon, Child Prostitution, Underage Prostitution, Child Abuse, Portland Child Prostitution, Media News

How many children are being peddled on the streets of Portland and in other cities and towns, to say nothing of the Internet? Whatever the number, it is a national outrage and disgrace. And the problem is growing, not diminishing.

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Anita Alvarez Tells Congress About Child Prostitution In Chicago

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chicago Human Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Prostitution, Sex Work, Anita Alvarez, Sex Workers, Human Trafficking, Chicago News

WASHINGTON--Some young Chicagoans are practicing "survival sex" and selling their bodies for food, clothing or a safe place to sleep, according to Coo...

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Minors in Migration: Child Trafficking in the Caribbean

Arlene M. Roberts | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abduction, Anti-Trafficking in Persons Initiative, Anti-Kidnapping Unit Trinidad, Child Abduction, Child Abuse, Child Labor, Child Prostitution, Child Trafficking, Child Trafficking in Caribbean, Child Trafficking Dominican Republic, Child Trafficking Haiti, Child Trafficking Trinidad, Domestic Servitude, Human Trafficking, International Office of Migration, Iom, Kidnapping, Kidnapping Trinidad, Lena Johnson, Lena Johnson Trinidad, Missing Persons, Missing Persons Association, Mpa, New Life Children's Refuge, Oma Nanan, Oma Nanan Trinidad, Sale of Children, Sex Slavery, Tara Ramoutar, Tara Ramoutar Trinidad, Trafficking in Persons, Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, Tvpa, Debt Bondage, Nathiffa Mitchell, World News

One aspect of the human trafficking equation that does not get the attention it deserves is child trafficking - particularly in the Caribbean.

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Half The Sky And Fighting Gender Violence

The New York Review of Books | Sue M. Halpern | Posted 05.25.2011

Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence Sue Halpern The New York Review of Books Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by N...

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Shaniya Davis Still Missing: 5-Year-Old Girl's Mother Antoinette Nicole Davis Charged

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Daughter, Girl, Crime, Little Girl, Sold for Sex, North Carolina, Antoinette Nicole Davis, Mario Andrette Mcneill, Sexual Abuse, Pimped, Nc, Human Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Fayetteville North Caroline, Child Abuse, Shaniya Davis, Sold, Home News

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. — Authorities acted on a tip Sunday and searched a wide area in south-central North Carolina trying to find a 5-year-old girl...

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Child Prostitution Ring: 24 Arrested In Denver During Nationwide Raids

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Child Prostitution Ring, Massage Parlors, Prostitution, Operation Cross Country, Fbi, Child Prostitution, Colorado, Denver, Prostitutes Arrested in Denver 2009, Arrests Child Prostitution, Ring Child Prostitutes Arrested, Denver News

During a three-day FBI-led crack down on child prostitution nationwide, 27 people in the Denver area were arrested late last week and over the weekend...

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