Feds rescue 105 teenage girls forced into prostitution

[Darth_Pelican]

Feds rescue 105 teenage girls forced into prostitution

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Ron Hosko, assistant director of the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division, speaks during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington, Monday (July 29) about "Operation Cross Country." The FBI says the operation rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution in the US and arrested 150 people it described as pimps and others in a series of raids in 76 American cities. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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(http://connect.nola.com/user/nolaap/index.html)By The Associated Press (http://connect.nola.com/user/nolaap/posts.html)The Associated Press
on July 29, 2013 at 2:42 PM, updated July 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM


WASHINGTON -- Authorities rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution and arrested 150 pimps and others in a three-day law enforcement sweep in 76 American cities, the FBI said Monday. The victims, almost all girls, range in age from 13 to 17.
The largest numbers of children rescued were in San Francisco, Detroit, Milwaukee, Denver and New Orleans. The campaign, known as Operation Cross Country, was conducted under the FBI's Innocence Lost initiative.
"Child prostitution remains a persistent threat to children across the country," Ron Hosko, assistant director of the bureau's criminal investigative division, told a press conference.
The FBI said the campaign has resulted in rescuing 2,700 children since 2003.
The investigations and convictions of 1,350 have led to life imprisonment for 10 pimps and the seizure of more than $3.1 million in assets.
For the past decade, the FBI has been attacking the problem in partnership with a non-profit group, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
John Ryan, the head of the center, called the problem "an escalating threat against America's children."
The Justice Department has estimated that nearly 450,000 children run away from home each year and that one-third of teens living on the street will be lured toward prostitution within 48 hours of leaving home.
Congress has introduced legislation that would require state law enforcement, foster care and child welfare programs to identify children lured into sex trafficking as victims of abuse and neglect eligible for the appropriate protections and services.
"In much of the country today if a girl is found in the custody of a so-called pimp she is not considered to be a victim of abuse, and that's just wrong and defies common sense," Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing last month. Wyden co-sponsored the bill with Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio.

[Rogue]

you can take a bitch out of the job but can't prevent her sucking a cock

[KoolAid Mans Brother]

Has anyone heard from Avante lately?

[SupremeGuy]

How many of those girls will go right back into prostitution? 90%?

I have mixed feelings about this story. I think the age of consent(as well as the legal age to start working) should be lowered to 13 and that prostitution should be legal, so I think the federal government is more responsible for these girls and their situation than they're willing to take responsibility for. Make it legal, let them start working, tax them, and let them start a union; that would help these girls more instead of just arresting/"rescuing" them.

[DUNCANownsKOBE]

Prostitution should be legal and the age of legal consent should be 16, imo. 13 is really young :lol

For that matter the age legal of prostitution should be 18. A 16 year old girl getting legally tricked out by her parents because they're too lazy to support her/themselves is an unsettling scenario.

[SupremeGuy]

lol it's fucked up situation for sure, but there isn't really anything you can do...

Girls are going to become prostitutes regardless, might as well try to make it as safe and monetarily beneficial to them as possible, you know?

[lil'mo]

How many of those girls will go right back into prostitution? 90%?

I have mixed feelings about this story. I think the age of consent(as well as the legal age to start working) should be lowered to 13 and that prostitution should be legal, so I think the federal government is more responsible for these girls and their situation than they're willing to take responsibility for. Make it legal, let them start working, tax them, and let them start a union; that would help these girls more instead of just arresting/"rescuing" them.

:lmao

[TDMVPDPOY]

lol pimps = fagots who deserve a hard dick in prison

[Rogue]

Whether a bitch offers sexual service to one single dude or a wide range of random dudes doesn't make any significant difference to me. They're bitches and and that's just what they're designed to be by their genes. Even those bitches who're "lucky" enough to not become pros in the industry of prostitution will still get dressed or behave like professional prostitutes because the old golden moral standards are gone.

In today's screwed-up society bitches have more freedom than their moms and aunts could ever imagine in their generation, so the bitches can simply let "nature" take care of themselves, they spread their legs to allow dicks in and show off their nude pics like nothing. But nature won't bother to lend them a helping hand when they get pregnant or infected with HIV, or when their nude pics are leaked out on the internet via their hacked iphones.

[Biernutz]

These children are 13-17, they are not adults. They are not bitches they are victims. What is wrong with you men? These were kids forced into prostitution. Unreal........

[Blake]

WASHINGTON -- Authorities rescued 105 children who were forced into prostitution and arrested 150 pimps and others....

some of the kids required more than one pimp

[SupremeGuy]

These children are 13-17, they are not adults. They are not bitches they are victims. What is wrong with you men? These were kids forced into prostitution. Unreal........According to biology and puberty, they are adults. Young adults have fought and been killed in wars, ruled over empires, conquered kingdoms, and have dictated history. Only recently(~200-300 years) have we started convincing young adults that they're still children; as a result, you now see a far more immature young adult than we saw just a few hundred years ago.

I think the millions of years of evolution that led us to puberty is a stronger indicator for when someone becomes an adult, then a group of people coming together and deciding an arbitrary age of their choosing is when someone becomes an adult.

[mrsmaalox]

According to biology and puberty, they are adults. Young adults have fought and been killed in wars, ruled over empires, conquered kingdoms, and have dictated history. Only recently(~200-300 years) have we started convincing young adults that they're still children; as a result, you now see a far more immature young adult than we saw just a few hundred years ago.

I think the millions of years of evolution that led us to puberty is a stronger indicator for when someone becomes an adult, then a group of people coming together and deciding an arbitrary age of their choosing is when someone becomes an adult.

But physical development is not an indicator of emotional/psychological maturity. That is why people decide an age, not arbitrarily, when most average humans have the skills to make responsible decisions for themselves, and be safe from being forced to do anything as these children were. For whatever reason, kids are coming into puberty earlier and earlier, some as young as 10----pretty obvious that puberty is not a strong indicator for when someone becomes an adult.

[SupremeGuy]

It's cultural. Start treating young adults as adults again and you'll begin to see them develop emotionally and psychologically. As for 10 year olds, they're obviously the exception, not the rule.

[Rogue]

People who're under 18 should all be considered as "kids" by the UN's standard but most little bitches in today's society start to have sex on a regular basis even before the age of 15. If they're still kids then why are they allowed to do adult stuffs?

[ashbeeigh]

They found a NINE year old during this sting. Do not even dare try to tell me that a 9 year old is physically and mentally capable of making these decisions. http://www.foxsanantonio.com/newsroom/top_stories/videos/child-prostitution-crackdown-reaches-san-antonio-16647.shtml

[Creepn]

According to biology and puberty, they are adults. Young adults have fought and been killed in wars, ruled over empires, conquered kingdoms, and have dictated history. Only recently(~200-300 years) have we started convincing young adults that they're still children; as a result, you now see a far more immature young adult than we saw just a few hundred years ago.

I think the millions of years of evolution that led us to puberty is a stronger indicator for when someone becomes an adult, then a group of people coming together and deciding an arbitrary age of their choosing is when someone becomes an adult.
So ths is what you tell yourself when you're molesting 13 year old KIDS?

Pervert.

[SupremeGuy]

So ths is what you tell yourself when you're molesting 13 year old KIDS?

Pervert.
lol it's fucked up situation for sure, but there isn't really anything you can do...

Girls are going to become prostitutes regardless, might as well try to make it as safe and monetarily beneficial to them as possible, you know?

[silverblk mystix]

I know a lot of trolls in here think it is funny to come in here and spew any garbage that enters their stupid brain - but this is a -far from funny crime.

These pimps are the most fucked up people we have in society and these are the type of "people" who make the death penalty something to support. If one day your daughter or a female in your family is a victim of one of these crimes - you might not think it is funny.

Have a little decency and at least try to "filter" some of your stupid garbage before polluting everyone around.

Rant over.

[cantthinkofanything]

I know a lot of trolls in here think it is funny to come in here and spew any garbage that enters their stupid brain - but this is a -far from funny crime.

These pimps are the most fucked up people we have in society and these are the type of "people" who make the death penalty something to support. If one day your daughter or a female in your family is a victim of one of these crimes - you might not think it is funny.

Have a little decency and at least try to "filter" some of your stupid garbage before polluting everyone around.

Rant over.

This.

But why do you make your inmates dress up as Ash Ketchum when you touch their privates?