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Couple offered sex with 5yo daughter for an apartment, used car, child care
A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trying to trade sex with the woman's 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used car and child care for her 10-month old daughter.
Jennifer Richards, 25, and her married boyfriend, Sean Michael Block, 40, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Nancy Stein Nowak on Friday. Richards is charged with using interstate facilities to transmit information about a minor. Block is charged with distributing child pornography.
The couple worked at the Cheesecake Factory at North Star Mall, where he was a bartender and she was a waitress.
Court records show that Block's now-estranged wife Sarah Block filed for a protective order earlier this week on behalf of the couple's 14-month-old child. Her lawyer said she filed for divorce Friday. A San Antonio couple is accused of trying to trying to trade sex with the woman's 5-year-old daughter for an apartment, a used ca... more -
Newspaper group bans ads for 'adult services' to tackle sex trafficking
One of the largest newspaper publishers in the UK has banned advertisements for "adult services" from its titles - almost 300 publications, including 17 dailies and websites.
Newsquest South London has "taken a decision no longer to publish adult services advertisements, either in print or on its websites. Increasing concerns regarding the appalling issue of human trafficking have been significant in this decision, which is effective immediately."
Newsquest's head office would not elaborate on the decision or the possible impact on advertising revenue, but campaign groups have welcomed the move. Members of the Croydon Community Against Trafficking posed as punters answering ads. In a Society Guardian report last year, it revealed that 84% of women being sold for sex were from overseas, most of them trafficked.
About time or an overreaction? Whose responsibility is it to police how and where adult companies can advertise their services? What impact will this have on the company's revenues? Does anyone actually buy newspapers or magazines *just* for the sex ads? Will other publishers be persuaded to follow suit? And what real impact will this have on tackling sex trafficking? One of the largest newspaper publishers in the UK has banned advertisements for "adult services" from its titles - almost 30... more -
Sex trade: 18,000 women and children trafficked into UK
Up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country, a new police survey reveals. Nearly five times more women than previously thought are working in massage parlours and suburban homes.
Operation Pentameter 2, a six-month campaign by police forces across the country, has exposed the horrifying extent of the sex trade industry in the UK. Because of the booming demand for prostitutes in the UK, prostitution and people trafficking is now the third most lucrative black-market trade after gun running and drug dealing. Organised crime gangs increasingly use the internet to communicate and maximise their earnings.
Most of the victims are young and foreign, coming from countries including Brazil, China, Lithuania and Thailand. Often, women are lured away from their homes with promises of work in bars or nightclubs, before being sold for up to £5,000 to pimps and brothel-keepers. The women are then forced to work for little or no income under threat of violence against their families.
As a result of Operation Pentameter 2, 528 suspected traffickers were arrested and 822 brothels closes. 154 women and 13 girls were released. Up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country, a ... more -
Cops beat transsexual woman
Her name is Duanna Johnson, and she is yet another victim of police brutality. Memphis police were caught on tape brutally assaulting her. What was it about her that triggered such a brutal reaction? Duanna operates with many factors of social stigmatization, she is a prostitute, black, and transsexual: these aforementioned categories work to create Duanna as other, and less than in our society. The police officers in question allegedly referred to her as a he/she, and repeatedly struck her.
Read the rest of the story and catch the video at:
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/06/cops-beat-trans... Her name is Duanna Johnson, and she is yet another victim of police brutality. Memphis police were caught on tape brutally assaulting... more -
Ryzack may have to serve more than a day for killing prostitute
Ryczack murdered prostitute Stephine Beck and was sentenced to time served plus a day in St Catherines, Ontario Canada. After much community outrage the crown has finally decided to appeal the case. Looks like you cannot get away with murder after all.
More on this story at:
http://www.womanist-musings.com/2008/06/ryczak-may-yet-... Ryczack murdered prostitute Stephine Beck and was sentenced to time served plus a day in St Catherines, Ontario Canada. After much co... more -
Save Children From The Sex Trade Industry
The Blind Project is a group of concerned individuals who aim to protect children from the sex trade industry. Many people living in more affluent, civilized parts of the world are unaware and sometimes overlook the social injustice taken place towards children and sex trafficking. This non-profit organization is dedicated to raising and improving the lives for sex trafficking victims by providing education, rehabilitation, and jobs. The Blind Project is a group of concerned individuals who aim to protect children from the sex trade industry. Many people living in m... more
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Child Sex-Trafficking
The Blind Project's teaser trailer about the pandemic child trafficking problem in Southeast Asia.
Find out more at: www.theblindproject.com The Blind Project's teaser trailer about the pandemic child trafficking problem in Southeast Asia. ... more -
Student prostitution: Selling sex to study
"Handcuffs and condoms are replacing textbooks for a growing number of students who enter prostitution to pay for university."
According to this report, the number of students who work in the sex industry to meet their financial needs during university is on the rise, up 50 percent in the last 7 years. The rising costs of tuition continues to be a huge burden on students. Would you ever go to such lengths to pay for school? "Handcuffs and condoms are replacing textbooks for a growing number of students who enter prostitution to pay for university.... more -
Canadian Government: "Prostitutes aren't off-the-hook for the 2010 Olymp...
Just when you thought they had a venue for every sport at the Olympics, you realized that one was missing.
A Canadian group wanted to establish a "co-op" brothel at the 2010 games in Vancouver in order to create a safe environment for sex-trade workers. Government ministers simply said, "We're not in the business of legalizing brothels..." Just when you thought they had a venue for every sport at the Olympics, you realized that one was missing. ... more -
Girls offered for rent to undercover reporter
ITN's Chris Rogers investigates the disturbing underworld of illegal sex trafficking in the Czech Republic.
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"Survival Sex" for Iraqi Refugees
1.5 Million Iraqi Refugees now live in Syria, and many of the young women turned to the sex trade to survive. Families marry off young women, who are then sold as slaves. Others decide independently to work night clubs for ticks. They are overwhelmingly motivated by poverty. 1.5 Million Iraqi Refugees now live in Syria, and many of the young women turned to the sex trade to survive. Families marry off youn... more
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Israel's fight against Sex slavery.
Israel is a top destination for sex traffickers, who bring women from former Soviet states to work as prostitutes in Israeli cities. Prostitution is legal in the country, but brothels and pimping are not.
Things have gotten better since 2004 when the government opened a shelter for women that have been trafficked for sex. Israel is a top destination for sex traffickers, who bring women from former Soviet states to work as prostitutes in Israeli cities. P... more -
Dutch smash 'voodoo' child trade
Police in the Netherlands say they have cracked a crime ring which allegedly trafficked Nigerian children into the West to work as sex slaves. Police in the Netherlands say they have cracked a crime ring which allegedly trafficked Nigerian children into the West to work as sex... more
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Dubai Prostitution
Beneath the shimmery, prosperous surface of the city of Dubai lies one booming business that most people won't talk about. Conor Knighton checks out the bustling prostitution scene at a popular local club. Beneath the shimmery, prosperous surface of the city of Dubai lies one booming business that most people won't talk about. Conor ... more
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