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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 [...]

Prostitution in Georgian London: Harlot’s progress

Oct 15th 2009
From The Economist print edition
The Secret History of Georgian London: How the Wages of Sin Shaped the Capital. By Dan Cruickshank. Random House: 688 pages; £25. Buy from Amazon.co.uk
AS MANY as one in five young women were prostitutes in 18th-century London. The Covent Garden that tourists frequent today was the centre of a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Older Stories: Nairobi: Prostitutes from the slum may hold key to Aids cure

David Orr- Nairobi
Thursday, 23 January 1997
Monica Marwa is a 25-year-old prostitute living in the notorious Majengo slum on the outskirts of the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. She charges between 30 and 50 Kenyan shillings (between 33 and 55 pence) for sex. There is nothing extraordinary about her line of work nor about her fees – it [...]

Residents on edge as 9 women vanish from N.C. city

Search for serial killer after six turn up dead AP .
By ALYSIA PATTERSON, Associated Press Writer Alysia Patterson, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 36 mins ago
ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. – They spent their nights jumping in and out of strange cars, trolling otherwise empty streets lined with decaying storefronts and boarded-up homes. Many sold sex [...]

Hooker Hunting in God’s Country

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By Sarah Braasch
[Editor's Note: Please welcome Sarah Braasch back to Daylight Atheism for her second guest post! You can read Sarah's bio from a post last month.]
A few months ago, through some fault of my own, I found myself on a driving tour of Naples, Italy, assiduously avoiding the unwanted sexual advances of some [...]

OH: Seven arrested in prostitution sting

By Everdeen Mason, Staff writer
Updated 7:47 PM Thursday, July 2, 2009
HAMILTON — Hamilton police arrested seven people Wednesday, July 1, in an undercover prostitution sting operation in the city’s 4th Ward.
Eleven officers, six undercover posing as both customers and a prostitute, participated in the nine-hour operation in response to neighborhood complaints, said Officer Dave [...]

Old Goucher Transgender Prostitute Problem

Last Update: 9:18 am
Prostitution is an on-going problem in parts of Baltimore, and in one neighborhood, a very specific kind of prostitution has become a serious concern.
People who live in the Old Goucher neighborhood say transgendered prostitutes flock to the area every night — and they say police aren’t doing enough to keep them [...]

WA: Pierce County judge’s trial delayed until September

Friday, July 3, 2009 7:42 AM PDT
By Adam Lynn
The News Tribune
Pierce County Superior Court Judge Michael Hecht on Friday received a three-month postponement of his trial on charges he hired a prostitute and threatened to kill a man.
Hecht, charged with one count of felony harassment and one misdemeanor count of patronizing a prostitute, had been [...]