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Jury hears case alleging 4 cops enabled prostitution ring

A woman who says she was lured from Costa Rica into a Virginia-based sex-trafficking ring says that a former police chief and three other officers were clients of the enterprise and allowed it to operate

The Independent UK

Lockdowns, shootings, prostitution. How a school fought a 'crime magnet' motel and won

LOS ANGELES — The September 2021 shooting at the "crime magnet" motel flanked by two schools crystallized the urgent mission at hand for the campus community.

Los Angeles Times

Hyderabad: 14k Rescued In Prostitution-Racket Bust, 17 Accused Arrested

Hyderabad Police have busted a notorious organized gang of prostitution racket and rescued 14,190 women including foreigners from across the country. Read on for details:

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Gardai probe ‘pimp’ suspected of controlling sex workers' earnings in investigation spanning 11 counties

Last Thursday and Friday, gardai carried out intelligence led searches in 11 counties. During the course of the operation, 46 people were identified as having allegedly purchased sexual services from an individual involved in prostitution.

Irish Mirror

Woman groomed and abused in care gets apology after 30 years

Leeds city council letter accepting responsibility believed to be the first of its kind

The Guardian - UK

Rome police hunt for possible serial killer after three women found dead

Bodies of three sex workers found stabbed to death in two apartments in upmarket district of Prati

The Guardian - UK

Former Italian PM Berlusconi acquitted in bribery case

An Italian court on Thursday acquitted former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi of bribing a witness in a 2013 underage prostitution case, giving a boost to the veteran politician weeks after his return to parliament.

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Multi-storey ‘erotic centre’ set to replace Amsterdam red light district – if locals can agree where

The city authorities have commissioned a complex with bars, restaurants, theatres and rooms for sex workers – but nobody wants it in their backyard

The Guardian - UK

Human trafficking gang behind Scots prostitution racket jailed for 31 years

The gang of four lured victims from China and Thailand – then seized their passports and forced them to work in brothels.

Daily Record

Sex trafficking gang who forced women to work in Glasgow brothels jailed for 31 years

Four people involved in trafficking vulnerable women into Scotland and forcing them to work in brothels across Glasgow have been jailed for 31 years at the High Court.

Glasgow Live

Woman Reports Rape to Pennsylvania Cops, Winds Up In Prison for Prostitution

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Reason

Health clinic was front for sex services, police allege

A woman was arrested on charges of operating a health clinic as a front for prostitution at a housing estate in Bangkok’s Bung Kum district on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Health clinic was front for sex services, police allege

A woman was arrested on charges of operating a health clinic as a front for prostitution at a housing estate in Bangkok’s Bung Kum district on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Legal sex work in South Africa won’t create new problems, just help solve old ones

South Africa’s post apartheid government has been toying with the idea of decriminalising sex work for almost two decades. But it has hesitated to act with the necessary courage to regulate the industry in a progressive way.

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Underage Girls Arrested in Florida 'Human Trafficking' Sting

Once again, policies billed as helping people coerced into prostitution wind up harming those that cops say they're trying to help.

Reason

Canadian Sex Workers Fight for Full Decriminalization of Prostitution

Plus: Why China didn't liberalize, rescheduling marijuana could take years, and more…

Bangkok Post

Former school director arrested for procuring schoolgirls

Police have arrested a retired school director accused of procuring schoolgirls for a prostitution ring whose customers included local officials and politicians in Kalasin province.

Daily Mirror

Inside city's red light district, where sex sold from 8am and syringes left on ground

Sex work, drug use and anti-social behavior in a Birmingham suburb is leaving business owners and residents exasperated and scared. They are calling for the police and local council to take action

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Girl, 19, 'murdered' by Uttarakhand resort owner, son of BJP ex-minister, for 'refusing prostitution'; leaves painful text with friend

DEHRADUN: A 19-year-old girl from Pauri Garhwal, who went missing four days ago from a Rishikesh resort in Uttarakhand where she used to work as a receptionist, was allegedly pushed from a cliff into the river Ganga by the owner and his two employees for "refusing to indulge in prostitution…

Reason

There's No Way FOSTA Isn't a First Amendment Violation, Says Lawsuit

The case is now on appeal after a lower court said the ban on websites promoting prostitution didn't concern protected speech.

Reason

'I Have My Own Life': The Case for Legalizing Sex Work

It would be far easier to prosecute sex trafficking if voluntary sex work were legal.

The Independent UK

Spanish sex club owners, workers protest prostitution bill

Protesters including brothel owners and sex workers have demonstrated in front of the Spanish Parliament over a bill that would penalize prostitution customers and sex club owners or pimps with sentences up to 4 years in prison

Reason

Review: HeidiWorld Wants You To Rethink Prostitution

Podcaster Molly Lambert's gambit to get listeners to critically examine the conflation of sex work is mostly successful.

Reason

Google Says Truth Social Must Clean Up Act Before Gracing Android App Store

Plus: Vermont city repeals prostitution ordinance, political correctness revisited, and more...

Daily Mirror

Young mum-of-four turned to sex work to fund £200-a-day heroin habit

Jade Taylor-Harrison, a mum to four children from Chell Heath in Stoke-on-Trent, was caught red handed selling drugs and she confessed to using heroin daily and funding her habit through prostitution

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