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• Minors Trafficked through UK Children's Home

  A home for children near Heathrow airport in London has been leaking kids since 2006.  Now an investigation has revealed that at least 77 children have gone missing from the home, most of whom were likely to have been trafficked into sex and drug work throughout the UK.The home is a place where unaccompanied minors, arriving at Heathrow from abroad are often sent to stay while their fates are determined by social service agencies.  Workers at the home are apparently not involved in any child trafficking themselves, but  Read More... Posted May 13 2009, 11:01 AM by Shannon LC Cate with | with no comments Filed under: child trafficking, child prostitution, Shannon LC Cate, heathrow

• Child Prostitution On the Rise on Craigslist

  Need another sad and horribly depressing story about kids? Sorry to have to oblige. Craigslist, home of the great deals on couches and awesome hand-me-down sources for kids clothes, has become the go-to source for people trying to pimp out little kids. And numbers are rising. Read More... Posted Apr 20 2009, 10:29 AM by JeanneSager with | with no comments Filed under: internet, child abuse, child endangerment, child prostitution, economy, Craigslist, Jeanne Sager, economic crisis

• Teen's Suicide Motivates Fight Against Child Prostitution

  I drove past our local high school the other day, and when I saw the kids gathered in small, rowdy clumps outside the school walls, I was struck by how young they are. "They look like babies," I thought. And I thought of them again when I saw this story on child prostitution. Samantha Walker started working as a prostitute when she was 15, and was basically kidnapped and brought to Atlanta. Her pimp was paid $50 for oral sex with her, but the customer, a married guy with kids, raped her and kept her trapped in a hotel room. She escaped and testified against him, but shortly after the trial ended Samantha took an overdose of depression medication and killed herself. Atlanta has a major prostitution problem (as a travel hub, pimps do good business with folks in transit) but authorities there... Read More... Posted Nov 28 2007, 07:39 PM by Kelly Mills with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: exploitation of children, abused children, samantha walker, atlanta, child prostitution