Facing an expected onslaught of prostitutes seeking to sell their services to drunken football fans, Indiana legislators are attempting to fast-track sex-trafficking legislation ahead of the February 5 Super Bowl XLVI at Indianapolis’s Lucas Oil Stadium. Citing data that claims more than 10,000 prostitutes descended on Miami for 2010’s Super Bowl XLIV, as well as 133 reported prostitution arrests in Dallas related to Super Bowl XLV in 2011, Republican state senator Randy Head wants to arm local prosecutors with more tools to combat the sort of sex-for-pay activities that Governor Mitch Daniels described as “abominable” while rolling out his 2012 legislative agenda. Meanwhile, police in the Indianapolis suburbs are already seeing a rise in Super Bowl–related prostitution. “Prostitution used to be just an inner-city thing,” says suburban police officer Matthew Fillenwarth, whose department made three arrests last week after reportedly using information gathered on the website Backpage.com to set up a sting operation at the local Red Roof Inn and In Town Suites. recommended

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  2. Characterizing what is about to happen in Indianapolis as an “onslaught of prostitutes seeking to sell their services” shows a complete ignorance of how sex trafficking really works. The average age of entry into commercial sex in the US is 13. That’s statuatory rape.

    Girls and boys are about to be transported to the Super Bowl from all across the country by pimps and then sold over and over again for sex. That’s human trafficking, and it’s a horrifying tragedy.

    To find out what “prostitution” really looks like, visit http://www.polarisproject.org/human-traf…

  3. Before we get too carried away purifying America, please note that all those numbers come from Linda Smith, a notoriously unreliable source. If you want reliable numbers and information about prostitution or sex trafficking, do a statistically valid study. Except Linda Smith has been key to preventing the funding of any statistically valid study. Last year, for example, there were three underage prostitution arrests made in Seattle.

  4. YouthCare’s program for sexually exploited youth received referrals for 185 girls and boys 16 and under in the last year alone. That’s just here in Seattle, and that’s only the tiny percentage of victims who connected with services!

    Those are real kids (as young as 11), not unreliable studies, and 119 of them received YouthCare’s help.

    SPD is getting better at not actually arresting underage trafficking victims they pick up for prostitution, which is why juvenile court and law enforcement counted for 116 of those referrals with such a low “arrest” rate.

    Prostitution is not a victimless crime of adults, and the girls and boys getting support from YouthCare’s programs are clear evidence of that fact.
    http://www.youthcare.org/our-programs/se…

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