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Nat’l: Mary Magdalene Project celebrates 30-years of aiding prostitutes

7/19/2010 – Los Angeles, CA — The Mary Magdalene Project (MMP) never turned its back on women most communities do, providing day-to-day services and an escape route for some of the city’s most disenfranchised populations, women prostitutes. Unique among nonprofit social service agencies, MMP implemented supportive and comprehensive programs starting in 1980 to help Los [...]

Pimp arrested in California for human trafficking has Oklahoma ties & warrants

6/29/2010 – Santa Barbara, CA — (You heard it locally here first) An alleged pimp from Oklahoma has been arrested in Santa Barbara for the sexual trafficking of a teenager. Patrick Boughton, 20, was arrested last Friday after a missing 18-year old girl’s mother called police claiming her daughter had been kidnapped by Boughton and [...]

Gang members target schools for prostitute recruits

6/21/2010 – Brooklyn, NY — (as reported on nydailynews.com) Brooklyn prosecutors have busted Bloods gang members on charges of running several sex trafficking rings that recruited girls from junior high schools.
Prostitutes as young as 15 were routinely beaten and deprived of food if they didn’t earn $500 a day selling their bodies, the Brooklyn district attorney’s office [...]

Day care operator part of prostitution bust

6/21/2010 – Naperville, IL — A woman who owns and operates a child care facility out of her home in Naperville has been arrested, along with two others, for prostitution. Amy Thoren, 42, reportedly owns the ABC & TLC Day Care according to the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. An emergency order was [...]

Hooker Shorts for 6/21/2010

The following is a summary of prostitution news from around the globe.

Pimp sentenced for trafficking two teenage girls: Dwayne Lawson, 29, of Washington, D.C. was sentenced to 17 1/2 years in federal prison as part of a plea agreement for his part in prostituting two teenage girls. According to court papers, Lawson met a 17-year [...]

Nat’l: Pennsylvania woman sentenced for pimping teens

5/21/2010 – Chanbersburg, PA — A Chambersburg woman accused of forcing two teen runaways into prostitution pled guilty on Wednesday and was sentenced to seven years of restrictive intermediate punishment.
Candy Lee Hubbard, 33, was originally charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of children, promoting prostitution and corruption on minors.
Hubbard’s sentence includes 20 months work [...]

Nat’l: Houston Vice cops shot at and returned fire during sting

5/21/2010 – Houston, TX — An alleged pimp was shot by police after allegedly shooting at an undercover Vice officer.
According to police, the Vice Unit was conducting an undercover sting in a Southwest Houston motel. The shooting occurred when a police officer was completing paperwork in a hotel room with a woman who had just [...]

Nat’l: Arkansas middle school coach arrested for operating a prostitution ring

5/21/2010 – Springdale, AR — A volunteer coach at Springdale Central Middle School is accused of luring young women into prostitution.
According to police Christopher Wayne Foster, 27, of Rogers, was arrested by Bentonville police Wednesday and charged with kidnapping, aggravated assault and promoting prostitution.
The investigation began about 6:30 p.m. Wednesday when a 23-year old woman [...]

Nat’l: Nashville mom admits to pimping teens

5/21/2010 – Nashville, TN — A Nashville mom pled guilty to her involvement in a sex trafficking ring that recruited local high school teens.
Teresa West, 46, (click on photo upper left) was identified as the ring leader and organizer for a prostitution and human sex trafficking business that operated out of Nashville and Pigeon Forge.
West [...]

Nat’l: San Antonio plans ‘prostitution free corridors’

5/20/2010 – San Antonio, TX — No,  Texans are not planning to offer free prostitution to residence and tourists along the San Antonio River Authority project with their newly announced ‘prostitution free’ zones. Actually The idea is to create areas where police are going to emphasize a zero tolerance to individuals who are known to [...]

Nat’l: Jersey City pimps sentenced to 18 years in prison

5/20/2010 – Jersey City, NJ — Jersey City pimp Allen E. Brown, 48, appeared shocked by the 18-year sentence he received by Judge Kevin Callahan in the Hudson County Superior Court. Brown reportedly blurted out “Eighteen years?” after his sentence was announced.
This wasn’t Brown’s first off hand comment overheard in court. Brown apparently greeted his [...]

Nat’l: Mother of sex trafficked teen wants Craigslist shut down

5/20/2010 – Northern California — A mother of a mentally disabled teen who was abducted and sold for sex on Craigslist.com doesn’t have anything good to say about the multi-million dollar classified website that is often the critic of anti-sex trafficking advocates; “It’s absolutely unacceptable that you have a spot on your web site where [...]

Nat’l: Serial prostitute killer in Chicago claims 4th victim

5/20/2010 – Chicago, IL — A suspected serial killer who targets street prostitutes is on the loose in Chicago and may have just claimed its fourth victim.
According to published reports, over the past two years four women have been found strangled to death in vacant buildings. Three of the deaths have been linked by evidence [...]

Nat’l: Pornland Oregon: Child prostitution in Portland

5/19/2010 – Portland, OR — (via Huffington Post, by Dan Rather) To pick just one example among many, Portland, Oregon is without doubt one of the nation’s treasures. It has been voted one of the best places to live and work. But according to police, the city and its outlying communities has become a hub [...]

Oklahoma City truck stop prostitution (PEOPLE mag ‘06)

5/18/2010 – OKC, OK — I recently came across an interesting article that was originally published in PEOPLE magazine in May of 2006.
The article, entitled ‘Nightmare at the Truck Stop’ by Alex Tresniowski, reveals the reality of young girls lured into prostitution that often leads to trolling ‘party row’ and having sex with dozens of [...]