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Volunteers try to dissuade young sex workers on Super Bowl weekend |
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Sunday, 07 February 2010 |
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By Emmanuella Grinberg, CNN February 6, 2010 (CNN) -- Volunteers are taking to the streets of Miami, Florida, this Super Bowl weekend to inform teenage girls of alternatives to working as prostitutes. Just as Miami's hotels, restaurants and retail stores are seeing a bump in business for one of the biggest sporting events of the year, law enforcement and social service agencies say they are also witnessing a spike in trafficking of underage sex workers. |
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Sex trafficking: An American Problem Too |
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Wednesday, 25 November 2009 |
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By Bridgette Carr, Special to CNN November 25,2009 Editor's note: Professor Bridgette Carr directs the Human Trafficking Clinic at the University of Michigan Law School. The Human Trafficking Clinic provides direct representation to victims of human trafficking and works to identify solutions to combat human trafficking. Ann Arbor, Michigan (CNN) -- "We did not have a right to choose where we lived ... freedom of speech, or freedom of actions. The traffickers had keys to our apartment. They controlled all of our movement and travel. They watched us and listened when we called our parents. They didn't let us make friends or tell anyone anything about ourselves. We couldn't keep any of the money we earned. We couldn't ask anyone for help." -- Lena |
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 25 November 2009 )
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'Shock' at N.C. girl's death in prostitution case |
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Tuesday, 17 November 2009 |
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MSNBC Associated Press SANFORD, N.C. - When 5-year-old Shaniya Davis was reported missing, suspicion turned to a man described as her mother's boyfriend. As he was let go, police targeted another man spotted on hotel surveillance footage holding the child. Then, authorities arrested the girl's mother and accused her of offering her daughter for prostitution. |
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 17 November 2009 )
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Two Men Plead Guilty to Helping Run Multi-State Teen Prostitution Ring |
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Wednesday, 16 September 2009 |
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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 Associated Press BOSTON — Two men have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges in connection with a ring that forced teenage girls to work as prostitutes in several states, including Massachusetts, Maine, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Shaun Leoney and Aaron Brooks were among six men who were indicted in 2007 for participating in a Boston-based prostitution ring that operated from 2001 to 2005. Leoney, of Boston, and Brooks, of Quincy, were originally charged with conspiracy and transportation for prostitution. Leoney was also charged with sex trafficking of children.
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