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Friday, June 29, 2007
Wednesday, June 20, 2007
News: There was a major brothel bust in Rhode Island. The details about the laws surrounding prostitution and such are (sarcasticaly) interestering. Also, it is just a current and eye opening story. This is from JFCI's blog...
Friday, April 27, 2007
Rhode Island's Sex Trade Raises Concerns
The article below was on NPR earlier this week ....
..> Rhode Island's Sex Trade Raises Concerns
April 25, 2007 from Day to Day
ALEX CHADWICK, host: For a good time, call Rhode Island, where it turns out prostitution is legal as long as it happens indoors. This legal quirk made the news recently when federal officials raided 20 brothels across the northeast. But because of state law, they could not charge anyone from Rhode Island. Nancy Cook of member station WRNI has more.
NANCY COOK: Felicia Delgado(ph) is driving through the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She's looking at Payne Park, known for its drinking, drugging and prostitution.
(Soundbite of car horn honking)
Ms. FELICIA DELGADO (Outreach Worker; Former Prostitute): What's up, mommy?
COOK: Delgado is an outreach worker and a former prostitute. Now she helps Rhode Island women get out of the business.
Ms. FELICIA DELGADO (Outreach Worker, Former Prostitute): It's not New York. It's not big, fancy prostitution. Like, I'm used to doing the streets of the Bronx, you know, where it's live, but it's not as lively like that. It's real hidden.
COOK: Prostitution is hidden here because state law only bans streetwalkers. Cities across the state say they're seeing more and more brothels that advertise as massage parlors. The city of Providence has tried to shut down these places with the laws it has, code violations or building inspections, but it hasn't had any luck. Providence Mayor David Cicilline worries that Rhode Island is developing a reputation.
Mayor DAVID CICILLINE (Democrat, Providence, Rhode Island): Rhode Island is becoming more well-known and as a consequence, Rhode Island is becoming a place where people can engage in human trafficking and acts of prostitution and be protected from criminal prosecution.
COOK: A few Rhode Island lawmakers recently proposed legislation that would have made indoor prostitution a crime, but the bill didn't receive much political support. For the second year in a row, legislators have failed to do anything. The state Senate majority leader, Teresa Paiva Weed, says the lawmakers are mostly concerned about massage parlors staffed by illegal immigrants from Korea or Cambodia who are held against their will. Legislators are less concerned about prostitution in general.
State Senator TERESA PAIVA WEED (Democrat, Rhode Island): It was our position last year that simply modifying the prostitution laws did not address the issue of human trafficking. Rather, it in fact made victims twice of the same individuals that we are allegedly trying to protect.
COOK: She says that's because the illegals working in massage parlors could face deportation if they're caught. Massage parlors and spas are overseen by the State Department of Health, but brothels and prostitution aren't regulated. A University of Rhode Island professor, Donna Hughes, says Rhode Island's prostitution laws are too lax.
Professor DONNA HUGHES (University of Rhode Island): In a few counties in Nevada, it is legalized, but along with legalization comes regulation, and in Rhode Island, there's no regulations or oversight of it at all.
COOK: The brothels have managed to stay out of the public glare. Providence legislator Edith Ajello says this is because Rhode Islanders traditionally haven't seen prostitution as a crime.
Ms. EDITH AJELLO (Legislator, Providence): There are people who live in Rhode Island and have lived in Rhode Island who've thought that what happens behind closed doors between consenting adults was none of our business as long as there was no victim. I think many people have seen indoor prostitution as a victimless crime.
COOK: There's no doubt that locals are making money off the sex trade. Providence's alternative weekly newspaper rakes in about $20,000 a month in various sex-related advertising. A former Providence mayor rents downtown storefront to a well-known brothel. Bally(ph) Day Spa is right next to a trendy furniture store and a block from city hall.
For NPR News, I'm Nancy Cook in Providence
Friday, April 27, 2007
Rhode Island's Sex Trade Raises Concerns
The article below was on NPR earlier this week ....
..> Rhode Island's Sex Trade Raises Concerns
April 25, 2007 from Day to Day
ALEX CHADWICK, host: For a good time, call Rhode Island, where it turns out prostitution is legal as long as it happens indoors. This legal quirk made the news recently when federal officials raided 20 brothels across the northeast. But because of state law, they could not charge anyone from Rhode Island. Nancy Cook of member station WRNI has more.
NANCY COOK: Felicia Delgado(ph) is driving through the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She's looking at Payne Park, known for its drinking, drugging and prostitution.
(Soundbite of car horn honking)
Ms. FELICIA DELGADO (Outreach Worker; Former Prostitute): What's up, mommy?
COOK: Delgado is an outreach worker and a former prostitute. Now she helps Rhode Island women get out of the business.
Ms. FELICIA DELGADO (Outreach Worker, Former Prostitute): It's not New York. It's not big, fancy prostitution. Like, I'm used to doing the streets of the Bronx, you know, where it's live, but it's not as lively like that. It's real hidden.
COOK: Prostitution is hidden here because state law only bans streetwalkers. Cities across the state say they're seeing more and more brothels that advertise as massage parlors. The city of Providence has tried to shut down these places with the laws it has, code violations or building inspections, but it hasn't had any luck. Providence Mayor David Cicilline worries that Rhode Island is developing a reputation.
Mayor DAVID CICILLINE (Democrat, Providence, Rhode Island): Rhode Island is becoming more well-known and as a consequence, Rhode Island is becoming a place where people can engage in human trafficking and acts of prostitution and be protected from criminal prosecution.
COOK: A few Rhode Island lawmakers recently proposed legislation that would have made indoor prostitution a crime, but the bill didn't receive much political support. For the second year in a row, legislators have failed to do anything. The state Senate majority leader, Teresa Paiva Weed, says the lawmakers are mostly concerned about massage parlors staffed by illegal immigrants from Korea or Cambodia who are held against their will. Legislators are less concerned about prostitution in general.
State Senator TERESA PAIVA WEED (Democrat, Rhode Island): It was our position last year that simply modifying the prostitution laws did not address the issue of human trafficking. Rather, it in fact made victims twice of the same individuals that we are allegedly trying to protect.
COOK: She says that's because the illegals working in massage parlors could face deportation if they're caught. Massage parlors and spas are overseen by the State Department of Health, but brothels and prostitution aren't regulated. A University of Rhode Island professor, Donna Hughes, says Rhode Island's prostitution laws are too lax.
Professor DONNA HUGHES (University of Rhode Island): In a few counties in Nevada, it is legalized, but along with legalization comes regulation, and in Rhode Island, there's no regulations or oversight of it at all.
COOK: The brothels have managed to stay out of the public glare. Providence legislator Edith Ajello says this is because Rhode Islanders traditionally haven't seen prostitution as a crime.
Ms. EDITH AJELLO (Legislator, Providence): There are people who live in Rhode Island and have lived in Rhode Island who've thought that what happens behind closed doors between consenting adults was none of our business as long as there was no victim. I think many people have seen indoor prostitution as a victimless crime.
COOK: There's no doubt that locals are making money off the sex trade. Providence's alternative weekly newspaper rakes in about $20,000 a month in various sex-related advertising. A former Providence mayor rents downtown storefront to a well-known brothel. Bally(ph) Day Spa is right next to a trendy furniture store and a block from city hall.
For NPR News, I'm Nancy Cook in Providence
Sunday, June 17, 2007
I believe that we all have a reason to be here on this earth. Some people may never find out why the Creator put them here and so may know just exactly why. And I know that a soul is not put on this earth to be raped for profit. Let us find ways to make sure traffickers are put and kept in jail so that they do not wound any more children, mentally and physically. Children trafficked for sex NEED freedom. It truly hurts to know what madness they endure. Their reason to be here (in general) is to just live and embrace their childhood! How can we as humans let this trade exist? These children are not living at all. At the hands of filthy rich traffickers, they slowly fade away.
Abolition and Restoration,
Elizabeth
Abolition and Restoration,
Elizabeth
Saturday, June 02, 2007
-Feel The Word-
Manna* – South Asia
Manna lived with her brother and was beaten by him on several occasions. When she was 14, she decided running away was her best option. Passing through the clutter and scuffle of a train station, a young woman noticed Manna crying and offered to help. She listened to Manna and won her trust, promising a job selling fabric. The woman led Manna to a place to rest and slept beside her that first night, but when Manna woke the woman was gone and another woman warned that her life was no longer her own. She would not sell fabric but her body.
Manna refused her first three customers, but the brothel keeper pulled her hair, punched her and beat her repeatedly until she gave in to the men who had come to rape her. She tried to run away and even begged the men who raped her to rescue her or call the police.
The nightmare continued for two years until another girl whom IJM had rescued led IJM operatives back to rescue more girls hidden in a soundproof dungeon. Manna was one of four young girls rescued from that dark place. She now lives in the freedom of an aftercare home that provides love, safety and schooling where she studies to become a social worker. IJM helped build a case against her brothel keepers. They were both convicted and sentenced in 2004 to five years rigorous imprisonment.
With a smile that filled the room like sunlight Manna said, “I came to prison, but I am not alone. God took me from that place to here. I am requesting to God that like IJM saved me they will save even more. What is impossible for men is possible for God.”
I want to free girls enslaved in brothels!
* In order to protect the individuals IJM serves and those who carry out the work, faces of sex abuse victims and particular IJM investigators have been blurred. To further conceal the identities of victims and safeguard ongoing IJM casework, pseudonyms have been used though the accounts are real. Actual names and casework documentation on file with IJM.
Manna* – South Asia
Manna lived with her brother and was beaten by him on several occasions. When she was 14, she decided running away was her best option. Passing through the clutter and scuffle of a train station, a young woman noticed Manna crying and offered to help. She listened to Manna and won her trust, promising a job selling fabric. The woman led Manna to a place to rest and slept beside her that first night, but when Manna woke the woman was gone and another woman warned that her life was no longer her own. She would not sell fabric but her body.
Manna refused her first three customers, but the brothel keeper pulled her hair, punched her and beat her repeatedly until she gave in to the men who had come to rape her. She tried to run away and even begged the men who raped her to rescue her or call the police.
The nightmare continued for two years until another girl whom IJM had rescued led IJM operatives back to rescue more girls hidden in a soundproof dungeon. Manna was one of four young girls rescued from that dark place. She now lives in the freedom of an aftercare home that provides love, safety and schooling where she studies to become a social worker. IJM helped build a case against her brothel keepers. They were both convicted and sentenced in 2004 to five years rigorous imprisonment.
With a smile that filled the room like sunlight Manna said, “I came to prison, but I am not alone. God took me from that place to here. I am requesting to God that like IJM saved me they will save even more. What is impossible for men is possible for God.”
I want to free girls enslaved in brothels!
* In order to protect the individuals IJM serves and those who carry out the work, faces of sex abuse victims and particular IJM investigators have been blurred. To further conceal the identities of victims and safeguard ongoing IJM casework, pseudonyms have been used though the accounts are real. Actual names and casework documentation on file with IJM.
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