"Typically, she's a 13-year-old girl of color from a troubled home who is on bad terms with her mother. Then her mom's boyfriend hits on her, and she runs away to the bus station, where the only person on the lookout for girls like her is a pimp. He buys her dinner, gives her a place to stay and next thing she knows she's earning him $1,500 a day.
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Our system has failed girls like her. The police and prosecutors should focus less on punishing 12-year-old girls and more on their pimps - and, yes, their johns."
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..and how will legalizing prostitution help these girls? It's more likely they will be victimized more when prostitution becomes legal.
Before the mantra of oldest profession begins, keep in mind assaulting or murdering people for profit is just as old and just as unacceptable.
How about letting the police and social services take these girls into custody whether they like it or not? Why are her "rights" more important than her future? Those rights protect and empower the pimp more than the victim in these circumstances but socially progressive lawyers don't seem to care. In fact, I think it is disgusting that the only time these types care about individual rights is when they are being exercised by self-destructive individuals.
Prostitution should be legal, it would give those who genuinely want to do it a safe place to do it, it works in Nevada.
As for the 13 year old girls I agree wholeheartedly that those who traffic them and pimp them should be tossed in jail to rot for the rest of their miserable lives, none of this parole shit.
"Our system has failed girls like her."
That statement is false.
No system can protect anybody.
Morton knows this.
Take your emotions out of every decision and post you choose to put here Morton.
When you try to tell me that your friends can protect me, I just laugh.
You are so out of touch with reality.
as usual Anon, YOU are the one with no sense of reality
First, that opinion piece published in the NYT is entitled: "What About American Girls Sold on the Streets?" which confirms why any relevance to Canada is accidental.
Then, none of the gross generalizations quoted are backed up with research or stats.
If blame for parental negligence is assigned, it's should not be solely directed towards mothers. There is only so much women can do to provide redress or remedies for inappropriate actions and behaviours by fathers and male figures in a girl's familial environment, which can harm and wound her deeply, leaving her vulnerable to the manipulations of pimps.
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