California: Pimps preying on youths
In the past 10 months alone, at least 170 children between 11 and 17 were referred to a local counseling agency because they’d been peddled on the streets for sex . . .
Firm numbers are hard to come by since agencies have only just started to try to quantify the problem. In one of the most comprehensive counts to date, the Oakland Police Department identified 293 teens younger than 18 being prostituted by at least 155 pimps over the 18-month period that ended in May 2003.
Statistics show most of the young girls — and sometimes boys — who are caught in this life are fleeing physical or sexual abuse at home or have fallen between the cracks of the foster care system . . .
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Sounds like to me the US Governement hasn’t put money where it was really needed. Moms and Dads, these are your children being exploited, what you gonna do about it, seems like our government don’t care. They are to busy padding there pockets with money to really care what happens to our children.
Peddlers of our most precious commodity should automatically be imprisoned FOR LIFE. Their entire wealth should be distributed for the welfare of their victims.