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Teenage escort talks to News 8 about sex trafficking in San Diego |
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Friday, 26 October 2012 08:02 |
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SAN DIEGO (CBS 8) - Sex trafficking is taking off in San Diego, in part, because pimps are using the Internet to market young boys and girls.
But there is a new effort to slow down the online sex trade by shutting down the adult sections of web sites like Backpage.com.
News 8 spoke with a local teenager who advertises herself as an escort on Backpage. See Full Story
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Stolen Youth: Fighting Back Against Sex Trafficking |
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Saturday, 22 September 2012 08:33 |
Street gangs have found that pimping out girls is a good business. It’s more lucrative and lower-risk to traffic a young girl than to sell guns or drugs.
The FBI estimates that 100,000 children are sold for sex each year. Three of the “high intensity prostitution” areas identified by the FBI are in California – and San Diego is one of them. The other two are Los Angeles and San Francisco.
But San Diego County is aggressively attacking the problem and becoming a national model in the fight against the commercial sexual exploitation of children. The battle to keep young girls and boys from becoming ensnarled in a seemingly never-ending world of sexual and physical abuse is complicated because of the many ways gangs and pimps are finding new victims.
“One of the ways girls are recruited is through boyfriend seduction,” said Charisma de los Reyes, a San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency (HHSA) social worker who is heavily involved in the anti-exploitation efforts. “Older guys seduce them and then turn them out; basically telling the girl ‘this is what you’re going to do now.’”
See Full Story on CountyNewsCenter.com |
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Underage sex trade still flourishing online |
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Thursday, 20 January 2011 17:14 |
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Las Vegas, Nevada (CNN) -- Her ankles and wrists are shackled. She's wearing used sweats in the bright colors of the jailhouse, orange, blue and yellow. She shuffles to the courtroom to face the judge, her mother, and an uncertain future.
Selena is a 13-year-old who was sold for sex.
She wants to go home to her house in the suburbs and the baby sister she hardly knows. And now, facing a sympathetic judge and a loving mother who wants to make sure she's safe, Selena is being told she can't go home.
"I want to go home and I want to be with my family, that's all I want," she tells Juvenile Court Judge William Voy, her face bathed in tears. "This isn't making me any better in here."
Selena was arrested by undercover police on the Vegas strip on prostitution charges. But although she exchanged sex for money, in the eyes of the law, she's a victim, by virtue of her age and the circumstances under which she was sold: by a pimp on the website backpage.com, a pimp who used drugs to entice her, and took everything she earned.
"It made me feel so nasty, I always just want a shower and get it off. I was like, oh, it's so disgusting," she said. "And it never made me feel pretty, not one time, not one time."
Read Full Story - CNN
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County cracking down on teen prostitution |
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Wednesday, 12 January 2011 09:17 |
By Christopher Cadelago
Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 2 p.m.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/jan/11/county-cracking-down-teen-prostitution/
A move to toughen penalties for street gangs engaged in pimping and pandering got a boost from the San Diego County Board of Supervisors Tuesday.
Supervisors unanimously called for state legislation that would add pimping, pandering and human trafficking to the list of activities required to define a criminal gang. The board also endorsed firmer penalties for people convicted of prostitution-related crimes on or within 1,000 feet of a school.
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Law enforcement takes aim at curbing teen prostitution |
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Thursday, 18 November 2010 06:54 |
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By Kristina Davis
November 9, 2010
Local law enforcement officers who investigate human trafficking are seeing a disturbing number of cases involving teen girls who are being pimped by increasingly violent street gang members, a concern that has prompted officials to take aim at the prostitution problem.
After listening to a 45-minute presentation on modern-day pimping, the county Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved a measure to explore creating a full-time comprehensive task force that would address the issue regionally and push for stronger penalties against traffickers of teen prostitutes.
The task force would possibly blend the resources of two multiagency efforts that already exist — the San Diego Anti-Human Trafficking Task Force, which the Sheriff’s Department runs, and the Innocence Lost task force, which the FBI leads.
Read Full Story in Union Tribune |
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