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NEWS ABOUT: child prostitution

child prostitution stories: 12 news summaries

Shaniya Raped, Killed on Day of Abduction: Cops

NC 5-year-old was asphyxiated, arrest warrant says

Nov 20, 09 5:04 PM CST
(AP) - A 5-year-old North Carolina girl was raped and killed the same day she was taken from her home, according to an arrest warrant released today. Shaniya Davis was sexually assaulted and asphyxiated Nov. 10, the day her mother reported her missing from the trailer park where she was staying, according... More »

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NC Police
Find Body of Missing Girl, 5

Mom was charged with trafficking after Shaniya Davis spotted with man

Nov 16, 09 1:13 PM CST
(AP) - Searchers found the body of a missing 5-year-old off a road today, ending a weeklong search for the girl, whose mother stands accused of offering her for sex, police said. A Fayetteville Police spokeswoman says that searchers found Shaniya Davis' body southeast of Sanford in central North Carolina. Two people... More »

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NC Girl, 5,
Still Missing; Mom Charged

Faces trafficking charge after man seen with daughter at hotel

Nov 15, 09 6:23 AM CST
(AP) - The mother of a 5-year-old girl who disappeared Tuesday in North Carolina was charged yesterday with human trafficking and other offenses, though authorities said they still did not know the girl's whereabouts. Antoinette Nicole Davis, the mother of Shaniya Davis, faces a child abuse charge involving prostitution as well as... More »

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Busted Teen 'Madam' Rips Pimp Charges

Ariz. 16-year-old denies running ring, says she was only a follower

Feb 26, 09 10:08 AM CST
(Newser) - A 16-year-old girl charged with running a child prostitution ring calls the charges "ridiculous," the Arizona Republic reports. The girl and a pal were the madams of a ring that recruited girls as young as 14 to have sex for money, according to Phoenix police. "We have... More »

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(Newser) - The FBI rounded up 48 suspected teen prostitutes and arrested 571 others on a range of prostitution charges this weekend, the AP reports. The nationwide offensive, Operation Cross Country, rescued girls as young as 13 years old. "The goal is to recover kids," one FBI official said. "... More »

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 FBI Sex-Ring Bust 
 Frees 47 Kids 

Multi-agency crackdown snares more than 600 adults involved in '21st century slavery'

Oct 28, 08 7:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - A huge nationwide crackdown has smashed apart a dozen child prostitution rings and rescued 47 juveniles, the Washington Post reports. The joint effort from the FBI, Justice Department, and local law enforcement agencies led to the arrest of more than 600 adults in 29 cities, including 73 pimps. Ten of... More »

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 Teen Prostitutes
 Find Help at
 LA Shelter 

Helping girls, rather than treating them as criminals, focus for Children of the Night

Jul 6, 08 5:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - "I'm their mother," says the founder of a Los Angeles shelter for teen prostitutes. For almost three decades, Children of the Night has focused on helping girls recover from their past rather than treating them like criminals, Good Magazine reports. Shelter founder Lois Lois "isn’t like... More »

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FBI Busts Child Prostitution Networks

It rescues 21 kids, arrests hundreds of adults in 16 cities

Jun 25, 08 9:29 PM CDT
(AP) - Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution. In all, authorities arrested 345 people, including 290 adult prostitutes, during the operation that ended this week in 16 major cities. "... More »

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 Afghan Sex
 Trade Thrives
 Despite Taboos 

900 foreigners hustle in Kabul brothels, but locals do it secretly

Jun 15, 08 5:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sex is selling in Afghanistan despite Islamic laws that make prostitution punishable by death, the AP reports. At least 900 women do it in Kabul, but residents admit only to brothels full of Chinese prostitutes; to be a native Afghan hooker is "very, very bad," one expert said.... More »

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4 Charged as Craigslist Pimps

Chicago-area prostitution ring included high school runaways

Dec 21, 07 4:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Four Chicago-area men were charged today with running a Craigslist prostitution ring that included girls who were high school freshmen and sophomores. The perps are accused of pimping at least 11 women under the popular site’s “erotic services” section, the Chicago Tribune reports. “If you’re looking... More »

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Pervy Billionaire
or 21st-Century
Hugh Hefner?

Oops: Epstein 'playmates' turned out
to be underaged

Dec 11, 07 9:06 PM CST
(Newser) - He owns the largest residence in Manhattan, several planes, and a private island. A superstar financial adviser to seriously wealthy clients, Jeffrey Epstein is also a patron of cutting-edge scientists and an FOB. But, New York magazine writes, he inhabits a sexual dream world populated by young girls giving "... More »

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Voodoo Child Smugglers Busted in Netherlands

Young prostitutes
took mystic vows

Oct 25, 07 6:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dutch police have broken a child prostitution ring that used voodoo to control its young charges, authorities announced today. Authorities found missing Nigerian children prostituting themselves in France, Italy, and Spain, apparently obeying mystic vows given them by their kidnappers and voodoo shamans. Police have so far arrested dozens accused... More »

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