Child prostitutes rescued in US

[dipsydoodle]

Source: BBC News

US authorities have rescued nearly 50 child prostitutes - some as young as 13 - in a nationwide operation against the trafficking of children for sex.

More than 570 suspects were arrested during the action, which took place over three nights.

FBI agents and local police forces were involved in the operations which spanned some 29 cities.

Officials say a 16-year-old girl who recruits children as prostitutes is being sought as a priority.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7906616.stm

[Howardx]

1. which gop congressmen were arrested? n/t

[MUAD_DIB]

8. Careful what you ask for. Some of those sick pervs could always have a

"D" after their name.

[MrsBrady]

2. my question is...

why do we have to get this coverage from the BBC?

and 2nd.....what cities?

[Journeyman]

3. This was reported in The LA Times, CNN, Newsday, the Associated Press and

the LA Examiner.com, among many other domestic sources.

You "had to get this coverage from the BBC" because you first read about it in a thread on an internet discussion board which used the BBC as its source.

[4lbs]

4. Well, MSNBC had a big article from the AP about it this morning.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29346132/

<snip>
Meanwhile, in Memphis, Tenn., a man pleaded guilty Monday to federal civil rights charges for sex trafficking in minors. Leonard Fox faces at least 10 years in prison after admitting that he arranged for underaged girls to engage in sex for money.

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Agents in cities from Miami to Chicago to Anchorage, Alaska, took part in the operation.

<snip>

[liberalmuse]

5. How many Republicans and Libertarians in the mix?

Honestly, I have no mercy on child rapists. You rape or exploit a child, you deserve nothing less than death. I worked for an org that helps teen runaways, and the fuckers who try to exploit them are almost always "upstanding, churchgoing, conservatives".

[Ilsa]

6. No mercy. I agree. I don't care how often they go to church or mass,

i don't care how much money they give to their churches. Throw them all in a deep hole and let them fuck each other over until the end of time.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Or go to 'Gog or hockey practice. There was a Hebrew school rabbi arrested...

in Queens for decades of perversion with kids and there was a ring run out of Maple Leaf Gardens at one point.

[GinaMaria]

9. Heartbreaking. So glad they were rescued. eom

[nebenaube]

10. hmmm it sounds like they finally took down the "finders"... n/t