January 09, 2006
Toledo - Recruiting Hub for Teen Prostitutes
(Toledo, Ohio) Police and social service workers are stunned.
From ToledoBlade.com:
[A] two-year U.S. Justice Department probe of underage prostitution revealed a nationwide problem of such magnitude that it took many police and social-service agencies by surprise.
"Innocence Lost," the cooperative investigation by federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies so far has saved 200 minors from the sex trade and led to more than 500 arrests.
The federal probe also revealed a "loose confederacy" of Toledo men who, according to investigators, have recruited local girls as young as 12 years old - shuttling them across the country and forcing them into the sex trade.
The perpetrators are alleged to have lured young girls in troubled circumstances into running away with promises of glamour and travel. Once taken, the girls are forced into prostitution at locations throughout the U.S.
It would be nice to know how long the "loose confederacy" has been operating and how many of the girls disappeared, never to be heard from again. And, in my opinion, the dismal circumstances of some foster care programs are at least partially responsible for the teen girls being easily lured away.
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For the scum that did these things, I can only say:
Rope. Tree. Skittish horse. Some assembly required.
In all seriousness, why isn't this sort of crime a capital offense? Have we become so mushy as a society that it would never occur to anybody to execute the monsters who so blatantly and systematically abuse children?
Posted by: docjim505 at January 10, 2006 06:03 AM (MC8cP)
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Didn't this used to be called 'white slavery'?
All the more reason to make brothels legal, IMO.
Posted by: Rusty at January 10, 2006 08:14 AM (JQjhA)
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Rusty, you can make brothels legal but it won't stop the sex trade. Many of these girls are addicted to drugs, scared for their lives, or mentally ill. These scum that prey on children should be shot. Sorry, that's how I feel.
Posted by: jesusland joe at January 10, 2006 10:33 AM (rUyw4)
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Considering what I see of the average teenage girl nowadays, there are few that have to be forced into any sort of sexual act, and many see nothing wrong with stripping or whoring their way through college or the rest of their lives for that matter.
Posted by: Improbulus Maximus at January 10, 2006 11:58 AM (0yYS2)
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The Slave Trade is not surprising.
What is surprising is that websites
such as www.theeroticereview.com and
www.bigdoggie.net actually place
"reviews" of the sexual services of
Sex Slaves and children forced into
prostitution. If the police wanted to
locate some of these human trafficking
groups, all they have to do is check
these sites and the local prostitution
ads.
Posted by: bob at January 14, 2006 10:49 PM (Ffvoi)
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I have first hand knowlege. The people at theeroticreview and thebigdoggie are low life scum who live off the misery they inflict on others. Let's get the SOB's and free the ladies.
Things like this should not exist in this greatest of nations...
Posted by: Sheika Fatima at March 10, 2006 01:27 PM (0yz2Z)
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