August 12, 2015
By AP
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — A 56-year-old northwest Missouri man (click here) has been sentenced to nearly 21 years in federal prison for transporting a minor across state lines for prostitution.
U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson says Tony Eugene Wardlow of St. Joseph was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday after being found guilty in December.
The commercial truck driver and registered sex offender also pleaded guilty in February 2014 to a charge of interstate transportation for prostitution.
Prosecutors say Wardlow paid the minor victim for sex numerous times while she worked as a prostitute in Kansas City. He also took her out of town in his truck on several occasions, including a trip to Texas in September 2011.
Wardlow became a registered offender after being convicted in 1997 in Nodaway County of several sex crimes involving minors.
Girls should NEVER be criminalized in the USA when they are actually crying out for help. Judicial and prison reform are desperately needed for girls and women in the USA.
August 12, 2015
By Lane Anderson
Underage girls detained for running away, truancy and prostitution are often trying to escape abuse and exploitation, study says. Instead of getting help, they are put behind bars. (Shutterstock)
Too often, (click here) underage American girls who are sexually assaulted or exploited don't get help. Instead they get sent to prison, according to a new report. And while recent media focus has been on incarceration of black men and boys, black girls are especially likely to end up behind bars.
The report, The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls' Story, put together by the Human Rights Project for Girls, the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, and the Ms. Foundation for Women, documents how girls in foster care and child welfare, especially those who are abused, are often funneled into the juvenile justice system.
In Oregon, 93 percent of girls in prison had a history of sexual or physical abuse, including 76 percent who were sexually abused before the age of 13. In California, the number of abused girls in prison was 85 percent, including 45 percent who had been raped or sodomized, and 45 percent who were burned or beaten....
"The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls' Story" (click here)
By AP
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — A 56-year-old northwest Missouri man (click here) has been sentenced to nearly 21 years in federal prison for transporting a minor across state lines for prostitution.
U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson says Tony Eugene Wardlow of St. Joseph was sentenced in federal court on Wednesday after being found guilty in December.
The commercial truck driver and registered sex offender also pleaded guilty in February 2014 to a charge of interstate transportation for prostitution.
Prosecutors say Wardlow paid the minor victim for sex numerous times while she worked as a prostitute in Kansas City. He also took her out of town in his truck on several occasions, including a trip to Texas in September 2011.
Wardlow became a registered offender after being convicted in 1997 in Nodaway County of several sex crimes involving minors.
Girls should NEVER be criminalized in the USA when they are actually crying out for help. Judicial and prison reform are desperately needed for girls and women in the USA.
August 12, 2015By Lane Anderson
Underage girls detained for running away, truancy and prostitution are often trying to escape abuse and exploitation, study says. Instead of getting help, they are put behind bars. (Shutterstock)
Too often, (click here) underage American girls who are sexually assaulted or exploited don't get help. Instead they get sent to prison, according to a new report. And while recent media focus has been on incarceration of black men and boys, black girls are especially likely to end up behind bars.
The report, The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls' Story, put together by the Human Rights Project for Girls, the Georgetown Law Center on Poverty and Inequality, and the Ms. Foundation for Women, documents how girls in foster care and child welfare, especially those who are abused, are often funneled into the juvenile justice system.
In Oregon, 93 percent of girls in prison had a history of sexual or physical abuse, including 76 percent who were sexually abused before the age of 13. In California, the number of abused girls in prison was 85 percent, including 45 percent who had been raped or sodomized, and 45 percent who were burned or beaten....
"The Sexual Abuse to Prison Pipeline: The Girls' Story" (click here)
