By Shea Rhodes, Sarah Robinson and Jamie Pizzi
In October, (click here) Gov. Wolf signed a law to protect children from being arrested, charged, and adjudicated delinquent for prostitution. Known as a "SafeSubscribe to read more!
An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) (click here) and 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in human trafficking, further providing for definitions, providing for concurrent jurisdiction, repealing provisions relating to appropriate implementation for minor victims of human trafficking, providing for special relief to restore victim's dignity and autonomy and for safe harbor for sexually exploited children, establishing the Safe Harbor for Sexually Exploited Children Fund and imposing penalties; and, in juvenile matters, providing for dependency in lieu of delinquency....
November 29, 2018
Camden -A man from Camden (click here) could spend the next 30 years in prison for running a sex-trafficking ring out of hotels in Pennsylvania.
A judge sentenced Dominic Roach to at least a decade behind bars.
According to prosecutors, Roach forced two drug addicts into prostitution and then took the money they made.
Prosecutors say the women had sex with customers for money in exchange, Roach provided them with drugs and let them keep a small amount of money.
He was convicted of 15 felonies.
November 29, 2018
By Alex Mester
Monroe — A former Monroe County district judge (click here) will serve time in prison for misconduct in office, related to hiring prostitutes.
Jarod Calkins, 41, of Carleton, Mich., pleaded guilty in September to four counts of misconduct in office following his March arrest. On Thursday he was sentenced in Monroe County Circuit Court and will serve between one and five years in prison, with no alternative programs allowed.
Calkins resigned in April after he was initially charged with one felony count of transporting a person for the purposes of prostitution as well as four misdemeanor counts of hiring women for the purpose of prostitution following an investigation by the Michigan State Police.
The investigation started after state police were told of “prostitution-related activities” at a Monroe Township hotel. Investigators learned a person matching Calkins’ description met women at the hotel for sex in exchange for money, according to a news release....
November 29, 2018
By Alex Newman
Arlington – The owner of an Arlington massage parlor (click here) was arrested Wednesday in connection with a large-scale human trafficking operation in greater Boston, the Middlesex District Attorney's office said. Dan T. Zheng, 47, owner of Lisa Massage Therapy on Massachusetts Avenue, was arrested at Rose Health Spa in Boston Wednesday.
She was turned over to Arlington police to be arraigned in Cambridge District Court on charges of trafficking of persons for sexual servitude, deriving support from prostitution and procuring support for prostitution, according to the DA's office.
Zheng also owns massage parlors in Stoneham and Dracut. Six female workers were found in the four spas after months of investigation....
November 29, 2018
The various societal crises affecting Belgium and Europe as a whole have had a strong impact on prostitution, Espace P…, a non-profit association that assists sex workers, noted on Thursday.The
sector has had gone through various migratory waves these last decades, it said, while the economic crisis in the late 2000s also had an impact on sex workers, some of whom are women who forced to work in the sex industry to survive financially.
Espace P… plans many activities in connection with the 30th anniversary of its creation.
The association, which is present in Wallonia and Brussels, notes that the economic and migrant crises, and armed conflicts that have wracked Europe in the past 30 years have had a marked effect on the sector.
“There have been many different waves of migrant men and women, which was already the case after the fall of the Berlin Wall, with women coming from Eastern Europe,” recalls Espace P… Coordinator Cécile Cheront. The war in Kosovo later led to an influx of Albanians, which went hand in hand with the arrival of mafias and human trafficking. Today it’s mainly Bulgarians and Rumanians who practice this occupation....
