How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls

[tabatha]

In November, a terrified 13-year-old girl pounded on an apartment door in Brooklyn. When a surprised woman answered, the girl pleaded for a phone. She called her mother, and then dialed 911.

The girl, whom I’ll call Baby Face because of her looks, frantically told police that a violent pimp was selling her for sex. He had taken her to the building and ordered her to go to an apartment where a customer was waiting, she said, and now he was waiting downstairs to make sure she did not escape. She had followed the pimp’s directions and gone upstairs, but then had pounded randomly on this door in hopes of getting help.

Baby Face said she hurt too much to endure yet another rape by a john. She told prosecutors later that she was bleeding vaginally and that her pimp had recently kicked her down a stairwell for trying to flee.

That 911 call set in motion the arrest of Kendale Judge, then 21. Judge has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex trafficking, kidnapping, rape and compelling prostitution. He is in jail, and we haven’t heard his side of the events yet.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/opinion/how-pimps-use-the-web-to-sell-girls.html

Nick Kristoff is covering this problem here and overseas.

[msongs]

1. real life is not a music video nt

[Waiting For Everyman]

2. The Village Voice. Profiting $22 million per year from prostitution advertising.

That's a long way for them to sink since the 60's.

[Mopar151]

3. NH's Union Leader has covered this extensively (Pimp on their staff!)

NH Primary watchers know the Union Leader well as a winger icon, with pious moralizing editorials on the front page.


From NECN.com, NESN story dated 3/20/2011 http://www.nesn.com/2011/03/new-hampshire-sports-reporter-pleads-guilty-to-running-a-prostitution-ring-1.html

On Friday, New Hampshire sports reporter Kevin Provencher pleaded guilty to running a prostitution business in Massachusetts.

According to the Associated Press, Provencher was sentenced to state prison on two counts of "deriving support from a prostitute, two counts of procuring a person into prostitution, two counts of solicitation for prostitution and one count of witness intimidation." On top of that, he was fined $5,000 and placed on one-year probation.

Provencher had worked for the New Hampshire Union Leader for 23 years and won four New Hampshire Sportswriter of the Year awards from the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association.

The 52-year-old created a website disguised as an "escort service" and utilized Craiglist, as well as other websites, to solicit women for his prostitution business. He received $400 a day from one of his prostitutes, according to gawker.com.

[Mopar151]

4. And he racked up the hotel reward points for himself!

http://travel.usatoday.com/hotels/post/2011/03/hotels-prostitution-sports-journalist/148691/1

Prosecutors said he recruited women into prostitution and set up meetings with male clients in hotel rooms on Minuteman Road in Andover, Mass. And they say that he kept loyalty rewards points, despite making the women pay for the hotel rooms.

From the Boston Globe's sports desk:
http://articles.boston.com/2011-03-22/news/29352067_1_hotel-room-kevin-provencher-craigslist

"A succession of men were using the rooms on Minuteman Road for, um, minutes. While the cops didn’t know it at the time, there was a dead giveaway that Provencher was a newspaperman: whenever he booked hotel rooms, he insisted on getting reward points."

[ProgressiveProfessor]

5. Duplicate thread from yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002225901

[tabatha]

6. Yeah, that happens. I did not see it.

The awesome picture of the earth by NASA that I first posted, was repeated at least 3 times later.