Volunteers ramp up efforts to rescue underage sex slaves during Super Bowl

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/fl-superbowl-sex-trafficking-20100205,0,1636107.story
'"The Super Bowl is obviously a really big deal for prostitution,'' Sandy Skelaney, a program manager at Kristi House, a program for sexually abused children, told the group. ``We have a bunch of girls being brought down by pimps.''

Just as police, hoteliers, restaurateurs and retailers have prepared for the big game, so too have children's advocates. For weeks, volunteers have printed fliers, prepared scripts and organized outreach teams in an effort to identify -- and, with luck -- rescue girls who are being forced into prostitution.

Last year, when the Super Bowl was held in Tampa, the Florida Department of Children & Families took in 24 children who were brought to the city to serve as sex workers, said Regina Bernadin, DCF's statewide human-trafficking coordinator.

``Miami is known as a destination city for human trafficking, and sporting events are generally recognized by the experts as magnets for prostitution,'' said Trudy Novicki, who heads Kristi House.

Under normal circumstances, Florida -- and Miami in particular -- draws more than its share of underaged sex workers, authorities say, lured by large numbers of transient men, the glitz of South Beach and a steady stream of conventions.

The testosterone-fueled Super Bowl is expected to generate as much traffic for prostitutes as it does for bartenders and bookies.

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'The National Center estimates there are between 100,000 and 150,000 underaged sex workers who generate billions of dollars in revenue for their pimps. The girls can travel around the country in ``circuits.'' Authorities contend the enterprise is controlled by organized crime.

In May, DCF began identifying in the agency's hot line children who fell victim to human trafficking. To date, they have recovered almost 85 children -- the largest number, 17, last month, said DCF spokesman Joe Follick in Tallahassee.'

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Who knew?

The people who run these rings and their clients are the ultimate embodiment of evil.

i would love to get my hands on him and rip him apart with my teeth. fucking demons.
let no one who stands by and accepts this say how bad any other culture and their practices are around the world when this happens in the most freedom loving democratic wonderful place in the universe. friggin sarc

What a surprise.... the Super Bowl... our age's version of Roman gladiator spectacles complete with tempting anonymous concubines strutting their bootay-on-display, to cheer them on and stir up the audience.

Nation wide worship of male virility and female availability.

Each time I was solicited (sometimes daily) by prostitutes or pimps.

I have been solicited less than a dozen times in the US in my 41 years.

Ever think that prostitution may not be a defining feature of our society?

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I assume this was after the break up of the USSR and poverty struck hard. It was the only job for many unemployed and starving women.

Wherever there are men, there will be a demand for prostitution.

Super Bowl Sunday is also a big day for Domestic Violence....the boyz get drunk, make wagers, and then go home and beat on the woman/children in his life.

BTW, internet pronography generates more money than IBM, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo combined. (From "Empire of Illusion" by Chris Hedges).

All going concerns.

The domestic violence and the Super Bowl linkage is also an urban myth. see

And the internet porn business bigger than IBM, etc...? Who pays for it when it is free? I don't believe you.

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Was in Cuba about 15 years ago, Vietnam twice including a couple of months ago. Haven't been to China yet but will be going there in August.

Sex is nice. It's wonderful. With the right partner, it's brilliant; however, it's not the end-all, be-all.

Caveat: I know there are men who don't spend their afternoons trolling for online sex. I know there are women who think their only purpose is to have sex. But, it seems that men are far more susceptible to this than women.


WHY?

Not all men a crazed for sex, and not all men who are crazed for sex are going to
pay prostitutes for it.

Where are all the women lining up to pay for men to sexually abuse?

In Miami, in communist countries, anywhere - why aren't women creating a "market" for this kind of thing???

Not all men do this, but almost all the people who do it ARE men.

That's called affirming the consequent.

not paying prostitutes, are they out there raping? There are years of DNA rape kits sitting on shelves waiting to be tested. Not much of a priority. What kind of 'gneralization' am I to make about that fact?

Hey, dudes are 95% of the prison population. The boyz are the ones starting and fighting the wars that kill and rape women and children. Look at what the boyz in Haiti are doing to women and children. Hell, rape just became a crime in Haiti in 2005.

You are your brother's keeper. Get busy.

Go read the 2nd chapter of Chris Hedges' book, 'Empire of Illusion,' and then we'll chat.

And while you're at it, go read about Patriarchy.

It turns out that happens sometime.

Don't look at me like it's my fault, I haven't committed even the most modest of crimes.
I hardly see how it's anymore my responsibility to be my "brother' keeper," than it
is anyone else's, male and female alike. After all, it takes a society to solve a
societal problem.

Kind of odd that you chose to quote from one of the most patriarchal texts of all time.

Thank you for insulting my knowledge though...it was mature.
About as mature as my sarcasm.

at rape jokes? And of course it's never YOUR fault, nor your friends' fault, no one you know fault. No one is paying for pron, no one is raping women....

You're new and I don't have the time to read your crap....go read a book on Patriarchy.

OK...you're the rapists keeper....feel better?

it's the power and the ability to abuse and degrade that is what these freaks of nature are after. Sex implies an equal and pleasant romp, at least in my opinion. Too many people also include the sex word when talking about rape - it's not sex, its violent hate. Its masturbating in a woman's body(or any recipient of violence in this way) it has got nothing to do with normal anything, espcially sex.

was Capitalism you were solicited by.

for women in many countries. Unless she's being forced to give it all to the traffickers and pimps.



anyway, I was referring to behavior in a consumer society and how women, and what I observe in one venue.

You make your own points ridiculous.

Outlaw the Y chromosome!

Iron Man 2 coming up? VERBOTTEN! Only romantic comedies are allowed!

Enthusiasm about any kind of machine shall be deemed a form of mental insanity!

Are you now, or have you ever been, a sports fan?

Many, many, many women enjoy watching sports and attending sporting events.

It's about time that both advertisers and the cretins pimps described in the OP's article realize this and ajust for the times that are a'changing.

I've about had it up to my eyebrows with commericals shown during sporting events that objectify us by showing beer commericals with skinny, scantily-clad women. Like there is no women watching this event who would enjoy advertising that is not on a third-grade level.

about that!

How much you wanna bet CBS would "refuse to air it"?

The money's in God, guns and saving fetuses.

You see, by using their terms, the kids that are kidnapped, dragged halfway across the globe, and forced into prostitution are merely "sex workers" so everything they're doing is by their own choice.

To use other terms, such as "human trafficking" or "sex slaves" or "children for sale" would imply wrongdoing and we can't have that. After all, it's so much easier to blame the victim. Especially since that's the whole system supporting the status quo is set up. Can't go around changing that now, can we? After all, that wouldn't go over too well with the PTB.

and probably too the big fat ceos that own media have their fun this way too and play with the other boys in the top crust of wealthy and influencial society. sorry, but i really think that there are huge big powers and influence behind some of these sex rings. Thats why the media 'goes lightly' on these stories.

can't destroy the apply pie and everything is ducky lovely image.

They sure are

> And though the girls who have made camp on South Beach and Downtown Miami may seem to be there voluntarily, authorities say, they almost certainly are former runaways or foster kids who fell prey to human trafficking. Some are barely out of puberty.
> Ernie Allen, who heads the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, said girls typically enter prostitution at age 11 or 12.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/fl-superbowl-sex-trafficking-20100205,0,4631115,full.story

Trying to control my nausea here.

Hekate

Apparently, ALL of the major sports national championships attract these shitbags. The Super Bowl is THEIR Super Bowl. But the World Series, NBA Championship games, and Stanley Cup all draw them en masse too.

Fuck it. I am watcing "Dr. Zhivago" on HDNet Movies tomorrow afternoon anyway! No coincidence it has the same starting time as the game.

And isn't that Jackie you have in your avatar?

:-)

Buying kids. Jesus that's fucked up.

but the kid's abortion won't.

God bless the USA.

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