Detectives Recover Three 15-Year-Olds In Backpage Prostitution Stings

Score one for Mike on a bike

You say that Backpage responded to McKenna in a letter last week. Do you have a link to the actual letter? The link given goes to another Publicola page that also doesn’t link to this letter.

6 women and 3 three girls? So a task force specializing in underage prostitution is successful in identifying minors 33% but they expect Backpage to be successful 100% of the time?
Also, pimps don’t need Backpage to find minors but it looks like SPD vice does.

Gee, they can’t actually catch Backpage in a real crime, so they have to invent one. I’m so impressed!

When did 15 year olds become children, not to mention 16 and 17 year olds? As a native speaker of english I think of children as under 12. After that they’re teens, and minors if it’s a legal matter. This is just spin to make it sound more outrageous. Why not go all the way and call them infant prostitutes?

Better not give Michael “One Term” McGinn any ideas!

Oh so this is about getting rid of the adult services section after all.   At first it was grandstanding about doing something about child trafficking.  If they remove the adult section, how will this put a dent in child prostitution?

I guess I’ll be the minority voice and congratulate the police depts. on a great save and I hope that all the women identified are able to get the help they need. I also hope that the home lives of those teenagers is better than being on the street, but it might not be.

Uh, “Frequent Poster”….HUMAN TRAFFICKING & letting pimps sell girls in the VV Backpage strikes me as a REAL CRIME. Where do you live?? PLEASE…go Google YOUR state + Human Trafficking…THEN come back here & talk about “REAL CRIMES”.

In between your pitiful and cheesy all-caps SHOUTING, you should actually go back and read the coverage of that one. The police called escort-ettes, and some of those who responded were underage. There is nothing to indicate that they advertised themselves as being underage. Look, teenage prostitution is not pretty, nor was it invented yesterday.

pimps dont find minors on backpage, the creeps get  these vunerable girls, via bus stations, lost kids, looking for a meal,etc..they then take these young,naive, girls..and try to sell them on backpage…for money.And thank God for vice, who else would save them, surely not some random dude with a tude like yours…I dont particularly like cops either, but lets face it…their needed, now certainly ,more than ever…

Thankyou paratrooper, you sound like a decent “Man” as for the males above with their, dismissive, morally bankrupt attitudes,  Feemster, and the rest of you winners,  sound  like your upset, that your playground is being cleaned up..you’d do a 15-17 year old, and not feel bad about it at all…angry?, that you cant find random women, to use as a recepticle..women have wised up, and you certainly dont like women you cant manipulate, who can sense you jerks a mile away…with your predatory behavior, . thats why you have to pay for it.. maybe the cops are monitoring this site…they know who you are,  looking up your handle, and your record…good. They dont make men like they use to..they died for this country…the best and the brightest..now we have 4F floating around, serial killers, men that shoot and maime the woman who doesnt want to have anything to do with them.

I’m a woman, not a man. goddammit.

Well, I don’t care if they are underage or if they are old women, prostitution is illegal in the first place. Back page is simply where they advertise. Have you been to  Theeraticreview, or Euros and Frontpage? It’s all over the net. It’s pandering. They know why women put ads on their site and they know what the result is and they are acting as the referring agent and that my friend is Pandering. Freedom of the press and freedom of choice. If two consenting adults want to help each other out and have a little fun so what. But it’s still illegal no matter what the age. If they want to regulated it they need to legalize it, that’s the only way they have any real power over it. Tests, licenses, ect. If you are a ‘pimp’ you loose your license (25k or so) if caught with underagers. Then the cops could walk right in and take a look for youngsters. The way they do  it now is not working very well and not cost effective. It’s illegal Federally yet the states are the ones having to take action. I think the states should go to the Fed and ask why they aren’t upholding their own laws. Maybe because the FBI is too busy with loan fraud. It’s all corrupt. We really haven’t made any progress since we became a nation. Same shit different Millennium! But yes, it would be harder for John’s to find girls if they weren’t at their fingertips. On the flip side, it would be easier for cops to control if the Fed or States legalized it. We can see the old ways aren’t working, time to try something new.Doing the same thing and expecting diferent results is the deffinition of insanity 

they are children if they are having sex with dirty old men…. to a 15 yr old that’s anyone old enough to be out of high school. They still own barbies and snuggle teddy bears at this age and they are still in school or should be becuase they are kids. Apparently you don’t have kids. You’re not officially a teen until you are 16 and that is far to young to be having sex with an adult, which is some creepy old guy who she doesn’t  go to school with. You’re probably that creepy old guy.

Why is prostitution illegal everywhere except Nevada?  Its happening everywhere – why not legalize it?

Because that would save time, save money, make sense and, worst of all, deprive police of the opportunity to work “dangerous jobs” such as setting up hookers to be arrested unless they agree to give the cop a free blowjob in the back of the SPD cruiser. How much taxpayer money was squandered on paying girls for lap-dances at Rick’s in order to secure a few misdemeanor arrests, again? 

Here is a radical idea:

Stop concerning yourself with whether grown, adult, of-legal-age-to-consent men and women are voluntarily exchanging sex for money.

Stop indulging your silly and selectively hypocritical outrage at the idea that women trying to feed, shelter, clothe and care for themselves and their families are surviving in this cruel economy thanks to the donations of horny men.

Stop sputtering in rage at the fact that women are being saved from having to cram themselves and their family members into sleazy, frightening and dangerously unsafe shelters, thanks to the financial contributions of their customers.

Learn to get a grip and accept the fact that there are women who are grateful to have a roof over their head, clothes on their back, food in their stomachs, coffee and cigarettes and the occasional medical care when they need it — and that all of this is made possible by the $40-to-$60 contributions they receive in exchange for 10-20 minutes’ work in performing oral sex.

If you truly want to crack down on underage prostitution and the sexual abuse of minors (and we all should want that, and most of us generally do — including most men who pay for sexual services)…

… then, here is your solution.

Stop wasting time, energy and taxpayers’ money on chasing, arresting, prosecuting and criminalizing grown, of-legal-age-to-consent sexual providers and sexual customers.

Instead, adopt the safe, sensible, enlightened and low-key approaches adopted in other, more-enlightened countries around the world:

* Decriminalize the sale of sexual services by people over the age of 18.

* Decriminalize the purchase of sexual services by people over the age of 18.

* Set aside a particular area of town (almost certainly one zoned primarily for commercial or industrial use, not a residential area) to be a dedicated full-time red-light district.

* Require women wishing to work “The Zone” to purchase an individual license good for 3 months at a time.

* In return for issuing the license, require women to supply proof of legal age along with fingerprints and DNA samples. The fingerprints and DNA can be cross-checked against databases containing fingerprints and DNA samples from convicted criminals (to verify age) and families of missing children (to determine if women applying for the licenses have ever been reported as missing or kidnapped).

* Use the funds collected from issuance of licenses to fund programs to perform regular health checks of working girls and/or assist underage sex workers to exit the sex trade and receive training in life skills, non-sexual employment and becoming independent and self-sufficient.

* Focus on arresting and prosecuting pimps, abusive / violent customers and sexual predators to the fullest extent of the law.   

Tony Ortega, Village Voice editor, in an effort to protect prostitution ad revenue, belittles anti-child trafficking activists and tries to manipulate statistics on child sex trafficking to create an illusion that this is a minor problem.  See here: http://villagevoicepimp.com/tony-ortega-2/

So-called “child sex trafficking” is not only a minor problem, it is a NEARLY NONEXISTENT problem. The LIES about “massive numbers of children being sexually trafficked” have been exposed and the LIARS debunked.NEW RESEARCH DEMOLISHES THE FALSE AND MISLEADING STEREOTYPE OF “Underaged sex workers” — AND SPARKS AN OUTBREAK OF DENIALAMONG “CHILD-SEX-TRAFFICKING” ALARMISTS NATIONWIDEhttp://www.riverfronttimes.com/2011-11-03/news/commercial-sexual-exploitation-of-children-john-jay-college-ric-curtis-meredith-dank-underage-prostitution-sex-trafficking-minors/