FBI, police bust child prostitution ring

Just heard about this on the news, but this is the only link I could find. The news report said 500 Johns had been arrested, as well.

This is horrific, straight out of Law and Order, SVU. Glad they busted them and my thoughts are with these teenagers...

http://blackwellbrief.blogspot.com/2009/02/fbi-police-bust-child-prostitution-ring.html

edited to fix link

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My daughter is 17. I just can't even imagine what this is like for these kids. Such harshness.

that being said, i dont think we need to have children to know the outrage here. but we can all pretend about the reasons we have become such a nation to feed off our youth in such an expansive manner..... or ignore it, or deny it. :puke:

For approaching another adult male. Restroom sex doesn't appeal to me in the least, but it doesn't horrify me nearly as much as the sexual exploitation of children.

right here in the USA. It done via the internet, the pimps lure the girls in through chat rooms. Meet up with them, abduct them and force them to have sex withe their customers. It was horrific. I think it was on MSNBC but I really can't remember.

via the net. there is no longer a seperation of the two worlds.

It made me shiver. Two girls, cousins, the oldest 15, walking on their way to Wendy's were snatched by creeps in a van, was just one story.

Another was a story about a girl who was 'befriended' by a classmate at school to have a 'sleep-over' at her house. She was heavily drugged, and sold for $300,000.00. Incredibly her family got her back, but nearly lost her because of the toxic cocktail of drugs in her system.

Unfortunately the stories go on to say most police departments have the mistaken belief that missing young teens are only run-aways; they don't see that there is a problem with children being 'snatched'. The families of the two stories above ran into road-blocks because of that mistaken belief - which is why, I think, they came forward with MSNBC.

MSNBC also stated that many of the perpetrators are former drug dealers. The dealers have found that human slavery is more profitable because unlike selling drugs, they still have and control their human product to sell over and over and over again.

And, it was cautioned about calling the human slaves 'prostitutes', because most of the time they are VICTIMS!

If the DOJ, FBI, DEA, ICE & DHS were on the ball, they'd use less of their resources over-hounding political dissent and focus more on this profitable, violent, vile criminal activity.

From the link in the OP:

Cities where the FBI and local law enforcement agencies conducted operations last weekend to rescue child prostitutes and arrest their accused pimps:

_Anchorage, Alaska

_Atlanta

_Baltimore area

_Birmingham, Ala.

_Boston

_Charlotte, N.C.

_Chicago

_Cleveland

_Dallas

_Denver

_Detroit area

_Houston

_Jackson, Miss.

_Jacksonville, Fla.

_Las Vegas

_Los Angeles area

_Miami

_Minneapolis, Minn.

_Oakland, Calif.

_Phoenix

_Portland, Ore.

_Sacramento, Calif.

_San Diego

_San Francisco

_Seattle area

_Toledo, Ohio

_Washington

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Source: FBI

anyone who exploited or pimped children could get life in prison without ever having the possibility for parole. There should be no other sentence. These people should never be on the street again.

this behavior. we hear it all on this board so many times, in so many ways.

I'm pretty sure that you haven't either.

no one could tell she was a mere 12 yrs old. so many 12 yr olds look 18, utter bullshit. one poster was so blatant in disregard of a 12 yr old stripper entertaining a bunch of men, grown fuckin men, fellow strippers not stopping it or employers not doing a damn thing that he said..... once a girl hits puberty, she is free game. i replied that some girls hit puberty as young as 10, are they too free game. no comment. two poster justified his remark.

so yes

though stripping isnt prostitution it is in the same ballpark.

that thread was a same day of a sweep of kid prostitution in dallas, about 6 months ago.

i have yet to forget that lovely thread. i will probably remember that thread forever in total disgust...

and make it a holiday

it sounds a lot better reading it than it did when I was typing it too. We are a nation of laws and not of men. we must get back to that place and do it quickly.

As horrific as this is, these people need help not harm. These people are obviously suffering and "hang the guilty" is the best hope we can give them? Sad.

how do you see us doing this.

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this is a progressive forum and this is only the thoughts of a few of us, not an endorsement of us so the board goes on. There have been some grave issues concerning the murder and the destroying of a country, a way of life for a whole group of people. None of the Iraqi living today will ever see them get back to where they were, even as bad or not as you want to believe it was. Hanging of the war criminals in this cabal is warranted. sometimes there need to be detriments and that would be one for in this kinds of atrocities. I would go so far as to invite the whole of the middle east to be witness to the hanging too. Nothing and I mean nothing is too much for the likes of the perpertrators of this carnage, nothing. Progressive or not

All right, maybe not. But you understand the sentiment.

I guess until we see that evidence, we can't be sure.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5110042

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... against local RNC donors. I'll bet there will be a lot of matches.