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Running in the Shadows
October 27, 2009
By IAN URBINA
ASHLAND, Ore. — She ran away from her group home in Medford, Ore., and spent weeks sleeping in parks and under bridges. Finally, Nicole Clark, 14 years old, grew so desperate that she accepted a young man’s offer of a place to stay. The price would come later.
They [...]

Press Release: More Than 50 Children Rescued During Operation Cross Country IV

For Immediate Release
October 26, 2009
Washington D.C., FBI National Press Office (202) 324-3691
Over the past 72 hours, the FBI, its local and state law enforcement partners, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) concluded Operation Cross Country IV, a three-day national enforcement action as part of the Innocence Lost National Initiative. The operation [...]

Internet fuels virtual subculture for sex trade, study finds

Published: Oct. 21, 2009 E-mail Editor
EAST LANSING, Mich. — The Internet has spawned a virtual subculture of “johns” who share information electronically about prostitution, potentially making them harder to catch, according to a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University criminologist.
The research by MSU’s Thomas Holt and Kristie Blevins of the University of North [...]

MA: Man arraigned for murder of Everett woman

Tuesday, October 13, 2009
By Independent Staff
A 38-year-old Somerville man was arraigned in Malden District Court on Tuesday morning for the stabbing death of Sheila Santos.
The 26-year-old exotic dancer was allegedly stabbed 33 times by Antonio Marcos Ferreira, who dumped her body on the back stairs of the Everett apartment house she was living in at [...]

MA: Prosecutor: Blood ties ex-beau to stripper’s death

By Laurel J. Sweet
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 – Updated 4h ago
Prosecutors revealed today they found a spot of slain exotic dancer Sheila Dos Santos’ blood on a sneaker belonging to the spurned ex-boyfriend accused of slashing her to death on the doorstep of her Everett apartment building.
Dos Santos, 26, the stripper known as “Kelly” at [...]

Lessons from a Mexican Brothel

by Patty Kelly on June 16, 2009
On a chilly March morning, my friend Abraham and I head out by car from Washington, D.C. to rural Virginia to do some exploring. Visiting from Mexico City, Abraham has been to New York City many times. But large cities can give a visitor the wrong idea about a [...]

LV: CLARK COUNTY: Anti-prostitution codes eyed

Oct. 09, 2009
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal
By SCOTT WYLAND
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
ACLU officials say new rules would be infringements
She sits at a slot machine beside a walkway, her legs crossed and her shiny black stilettos poking out for passers-by to see.
Dressed in jeans and a draping cotton top, Marcella could pass for a tourist absorbed in [...]

MA: Somerville man charged in connection with Everett exotic dancer’s murder

Wicked Local Cambridge
Posted Oct 09, 2009 @ 07:37 PM
Cambridge —
The following is a press release from Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone’s office:
A Somerville man has been arrested in connection with the stabbing death of Sheila Dos Santos, 26, of Everett, Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone and Everett Police Chief Steven Mazzie informed the public today.
Antonio [...]

MA: Investigation continues in homicide – Young Brazilian woman murdered on Main Street

Wednesday, October 7, 2009
By Independent Staff
The stabbing death of a 26 year-old Everett woman early Friday morning between 1:30 – 2:30 a.m. outside of the 154 Main Street building where she lived has led to an intense hunt for her murderer.
Sheila Santos, an immigrant from Brazil, who worked as an exotic dancer at a club [...]

LV: CLARK COUNTY COMMISSION: Dancer crackdown sought

Police want new code to pursue improper touching in strip clubs
By SCOTT WYLAND
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Oct. 07, 2009
Lap dancers would be cited for lewd conduct for improperly touching customers under a new code proposed by Las Vegas police.
In the dances, patrons sit while topless, nude or scantily clad women tease them with suggestive [...]