sassa Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Major Increase In Teen Prostitutes In USRediff.com 8-11-3There has been a marked increase in teen prostitutes in cities across the United States during the last year, a media report said on Monday quoting local and federal law enforcement officials. "Compared to three years ago, we've seen a 70 per cent increase in kids from middle-to-upper-middle class backgrounds, many of whom have not suffered mental, sexual or physical abuse," Frank Barnaba of the Paul and Lisa Programme, which works with the Justice Department and the FBI in tracking exploited kids, told Newsweek magazine. The Newsweek report quotes FBI as saying that average age of a new recruit is just 13; some are as young as 9. While the vast majority of teen prostitutes are runaways, illegal immigrants and children of poor urban areas, experts say a growing number now come from middle-class homes. Child advocates are especially concerned that pimps are increasingly targeting girls at the local mall, a place many parents consider a haven for their kids to gather after school and on weekends. "Ten years ago you didn't see this happening," says Bob Flores, who heads the Justice Department's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. "We've got kids in every major city and in suburbia all over the place being prostituted." "Potentially, good sex is a small price to pay for the freedom to spend money on what I want," said a 17-year-old girl who liked to hang out after school at the Mall of America, Minnesota's vast shopping megaplex. After being approached last summer by a man who told her how pretty she was, and asked if he could buy her some clothes, she agreed and went home that night with a $ 250 outfit, Newsweek reported. The girl, who lives with her parents in an upscale neighborhood, began stripping for men in hotel rooms - then went on to more intimate activities. The Mall of America, whose spokesman declined to comment, has an extensive security operation, and rules requiring juveniles to have chaperones on weekend evenings. Law-enforcement officials, who praise the mall's efforts to combat the problem, nonetheless concede pimps are active there. Child advocates are just as worried about and puzzled by girls who aren't forced into prostitution but instead appear to sell themselves for thrills, or money, or both. Richard Estes, a University of Pennsylvania researcher, told the magazine that so-called designer sex is becoming more common in cities across the country. "Everyone thinks they are runaways with drug problems from the inner city," says Andy Schmidt, a Minneapolis detective who helped bust a major Twin Cities prostitution ring. "It's not true. This could be your kid." FBI identified 13 cities - including Los Angeles and New York - that have juvenile-prostitution problems. © Copyright 2003 PTI. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of PTI content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent. http://www.rediff.com/us/2003/aug/11us1.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covetoys Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 I need to move back to the states ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abortionator Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Originally posted by sassa Child advocates are especially concerned that pimps are increasingly targeting girls at the local mall, a place many parents consider a haven for their kids to gather after school and on weekends. :clap: :clap: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
covetoys Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Originally posted by covetoys I need to move back to the states ASAP. what am I thinking? Prostitution is legal here at age of 16. No need. I'll stay here and in Bangkok until I die. Unless of course I can lease a room at the Mall of Americas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 nice... i'll have to carry some extra cash when i hitup the mall... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted August 13 Author Report Share Posted August 13 Originally posted by joeg nice... i'll have to carry some extra cash when i hitup the mall... ha...that's fucked up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tastyt Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Originally posted by sassa The Newsweek report quotes FBI as saying that average age of a new recruit is just 13; some are as young as 9. NINE YEARS OLD??? What kind of sick fucking bastard... jesus christ some men deserve to get their balls chopped off. Originally posted by sassa "Potentially, good sex is a small price to pay for the freedom to spend money on what I want," said a 17-year-old girl *shakes head* Never... having... children... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sassa Posted August 13 Author Report Share Posted August 13 there's a lot of sick fucks out there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ou812 Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 :rock: :rock: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entheogen808 Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 who's doing this research?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuturephunk Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 ..Good, I love when this type of shit afflicts the kids from the suburbs, for no other reason then to stick it to the parents... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetie029 Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 .....That shit is crazy....effin pervsAnd these young girls need to wise up.....too many girls are a little too loose for their age Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wideskies Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 it's the economy, stupid! daddy didn't get his raise...monthly allowance went down to $250... high school prep girls gotta find SOME way to pay for the weed and beer! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mala Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Yeah, I read an article about the whole mall teen prostitution thing a couple of weeks ago. I don't really think it is as big of a problem as the media makes it seem. I think its just a handful of teens whose parents don't keep a tight enough leash on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranzwhore Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 "how sad" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tastey Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 you offering sass? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nSyNcBaBy Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 thats terrible poor girls just dont know any better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
entheogen808 Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 hell, i wish i were a teenage girl...sounds like there's a good job market out there and they're making some serious $$$$ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranzwhore Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Originally posted by entheogen808 hell, i wish i were a teenage girl...sounds like there's a good job market out there and they're making some serious $$$$ saving towards their college education Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phuturephunk Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Originally posted by linabina thats terrible poor girls just dont know any better .....don't be that fucking naieve... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeg Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Originally posted by phuturephunk ..Good, I love when this type of shit afflicts the kids from the suburbs, for no other reason then to stick it to the parents... :laugh: i really hate the awful rightwing scumbag parents who pretend to pay attention to their kids but don't notice when little jenny is sucking C in the mall, or little eric is building bombs in the basement to kill his playmates.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tastyt Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 Originally posted by phuturephunk .....don't be that fucking naieve... Go ahead, try and tell us how young girls (*ahem*- 13 years old on average) aren't impressionable and fairly easy to sway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gabo Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 what was the name of that hbo show about the hookers at the point? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest gabo Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 ummmm I think I just answered my own question. imma moron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fliptoniaaa Posted August 13 Report Share Posted August 13 hey ugly people gotta get some to!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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