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Search results for "underage prostitution" ...
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Sold On Craigslist
The popular classified website Craigslist was found to be selling underage prostitutes through it's adult services section. The website was not screening ads as promised to uncover trafficking and it was profiting from the sales.
Tags: Craigslist; underage prostitution; prostitution; human trafficking; adult services; classified; advertising; prostitute
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Sex Ghetto Raided
Police in Ghana new about the abuse of young girls ranging from 11- 14 in age in local brothels but did not have the proper evidence to close down the facility until the reporter presented the authorities with video proof. There were 60 minors after the arrest of 239 sex workers and clients.
Tags: underage; hostel; prostitution; exploitation; servicing; nudity; naked;
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The Christal Jones Story
The Free Press discovers that teenage girls from Vermont have been "hooked on heroin and whisked away to New York" where they have been forced into prostitution. Many of the young women have been in state custody, but the state lacks "the money, manpower or wherewithal to keep track of its incorrigible charges," the investigative series reveals. Some of the stories shed light on the "heroin epidemic that consumed many young Vermonters," and other articles focus on the deviant activity of a Burlington businessman who has been taking tens of thousands of pornographic pictures, some of underage girls. The coverage starts with a story about the death of 16-year-old Christal Jones, a ward of the state who died in a seedy New York apartment, and whose fate has been kept from the public by the state officials.
Tags: drugs; drug addicts; heroin; prostitution; abuse; pornography; juvenile justice; youth; FOI requests; crime; rape
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IRE Feed 3, "Hot Stories and Cool Techniques."
A compilation of 8 Stories: 1.) "License For Sale" KCBS, Los Angeles, Criminals and government employees illegally buying real drivers licenses. 2.) "Demon Drivers" WSMV, Nashville. 3.) "Ambulance Felons" KNXV, Phoenix, Paramedics and Emergency Medical Technicians stealing credit cards from victim's homes and more. 4.) "Hunter Felons" WCCO, Minneapolis, Criminals with firearm hunting licenses. 5.) "Skin Peddler" WXYZ, Detroit, Underage dancers and prostitution. 6.) "Cash, Trash, and Politics." News 12 Long Island, Campaign finance money like with the garbage business. 7.) "Toxic Traffic" WJXT, Jacksonville, Hazardous material accidents and toxic waste dumps. 8.) "Military Secrets" WRAL, Raleigh, Military personnel can't sue for malpractice.
Tags: TAPE; KCBS; WSMV; KNXV; WCCO; WXYZ; News 12 Long Island; WJXT; WRAL.
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Abuse for sale
"...the WCCO Television I-Team documented how a Minnesota man -- operating out of a respected Twin Cities law office -- was making hard core pornography with underage girls. And, then, selling the child pornography nationwide... (it) was just one example of a recent explosion of "home made" pornography -- pornography made possible by the growing popularity of home video cameras and VCRs."
Tags: VIDEOCLIP TAPE TRANSCRIPT sexual abuse prostitution runaways adult video stores X-rated