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Weird Science: Women's Funding Network Sex Trafficking Study is Junk Science
The story examines a series of purportedly scientific studies conducted on behalf of an advocacy group that raises money to fight juvenile prostitution. A close look at the study reveals a dubious methodology that violates most of the key tenets of sociological research.
Tags: research; sociology; juvenile prostitution; advocacy group
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Trafficked
Youth Radio covered the issue of human trafficking into the sex trade, a problem prevalent in Oakland. Their coverage focused on the perspectives of the trafficked teenagers.The story "pieces together what life is like for girls who are kidnapped or ensnared by pimps -- and how law enforcement criminalizes juvenile victims, arresting them three times as often as the traffickers who exploit them."
Tags: prostitution; human trafficking; kidnapping; Youth and Family Services; Oakland, California; sex trade
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Tiffany's Betrayal
The San Francisco Examiner tells the story of Tiffany Mason, a 15 year old who bounced between foster care, her mother and her pimp before being murdered in August 2001. The Examiner series blames the city of San Francisco, the juvenile justice system and the state Department of Human Services for her death, stating that the system did nothing to take Tiffany away from her pimp. The Examiner uses this story to illustrate a larger problem: "men buy sex from hundreds, possibly thousands of children in San Francisco each year with near impunity. Police routinely ignore or issue misdemeanor citations to men who pay children for sex." And agencies do little to prevent young women arrested for prostitution from going back to their pimps after they've been released from juvenile hall.
Tags: prostitution; children; pimps; San Francisco; police; juvenile hall; juvenile justice system; sex; department of Human Services; California
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Selling Atlanta's Children
The Journal-Constitution investigates teenage prostitution in Atlanta. The investigation focuses on the fact that prostitutes as young as 10 are going to jail while the adult men who exploit them go free. As a result of the investigation the state legislature passed laws making pimping minors a felony punishable by up to 20 years in prison and allowing the government to seize assets of those involved in child prostitution. Eleven alleged pimps were arrested on racketeering after the series ran.
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The Christal Jones Story
The Free Press discovers that teenage girls from Vermont have been "hooked on heroin and whisked away to New York" where they have been forced into prostitution. Many of the young women have been in state custody, but the state lacks "the money, manpower or wherewithal to keep track of its incorrigible charges," the investigative series reveals. Some of the stories shed light on the "heroin epidemic that consumed many young Vermonters," and other articles focus on the deviant activity of a Burlington businessman who has been taking tens of thousands of pornographic pictures, some of underage girls. The coverage starts with a story about the death of 16-year-old Christal Jones, a ward of the state who died in a seedy New York apartment, and whose fate has been kept from the public by the state officials.
Tags: drugs; drug addicts; heroin; prostitution; abuse; pornography; juvenile justice; youth; FOI requests; crime; rape
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The Detective and the Prostitute
This is the story of a detective determined to solve homicide cases involving prostitutes. Det. Wayne Robinson latest case is the murder of the 21-year-old crack-addicted prostitute Gina Moore, a young woman with a troubled life and a concerned family
Tags: prostitution; police; drugs; juvenile
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America's Troubled Children:Wards of the State
Christian Science Monitor looks at children in state custody and at the juvenile justice system, foster care and group homes.
Tags: Juveniles; Foster care; Crime; Prisons; Criminal justice; Homeless persons; Prostitution; Drugs
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Sioux City (Iowa) Journal reports at least 50 runaway juveniles were being used as prostitutes, and the police were hindered in stopping it because Iowa law prohibits the detention of runaways, March 12, 1985.
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