Media Advisory: Press Conference - Arizona Human Sex Trafficking Meeting
Media Advisory: Press Conference - Arizona Human Sex Trafficking Meeting
Dave notes, if anyone goes to hear all the lies about sex trafficking, the bogus studies, I'd appreciate any reporting. HUGE money coming in to arrest mostly consenting adults under the excuse of "child sex trafficking"
Tucson media releases reporting efforts to "rescue" sex workers: "New sex trafficking legislation is set to be presented to the Arizona House of Representatives by Rep. Victoria Steele. According to officials the average age a girl enters prostitution in the United States is 13; in Tucson and Phoenix it is 15. This legislation could be introduced to the house in as early as two weeks.
The Arizona Police Academy will begin new training related to sex trafficking this month. (Phone operators, drivers, web site owners and customers may be considered "sex traffickers" if encourage prostitution even if consenting adults)
Phoenix Media Release 1/5/2015
What:
Arizona elected leaders, joined by Cindy McCain, Polaris, and Clear Channel Outdoor will discuss human trafficking in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The estimated $150 billion industry forces approximately 20.9 million people worldwide to live in modern day slavery; many are oppressed or held captive for labor or sex slavery in Arizona. Human trafficking is often associated in public consciousness with large sporting events. The partners in the campaign are using the focus on Phoenix as host of the nation’s biggest sporting event to elevate the attention to a year-long dialogue that moves the needle on bringing traffickers to justice and victims to freedom.
Polaris, the McCain Institute and Clear Channel Outdoor will reveal and launch a dual-pronged bilingual anti-human trafficking public service campaign to both help victims get help to freedom and to encourage citizens to report suspicious activity. The campaign will promote the National Human Trafficking Resource Center Hotline.
Who:
Cindy McCain, Co-Chair, Arizona Human Trafficking Council and Chair of Human Trafficking Advisory Council, The McCain Institute for International Leadership at ASU.
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich
Mayor of Phoenix, Greg Stanton
Carolyn Jones, StreetLightUSA
Bradley Myles, Executive Director and CEO, Polaris
Diane Veres, President, Clear Channel Outdoor -- Arizona
When:
Wednesday, January 7, 2015
10:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Where:
602 East Grant Street
Phoenix, AZ 85004
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KVOA News 4Tucson 1/5/2015 reports
Tucson has one of the highest child runaway rates in the country. A third of runaway girls are approached by a sex trafficker within 48 hours. According to TPD 15 teenagers have been rescued in the past two years. (Dave notes and probably hundreds of consenting adults - typically arrests are at least 90% consenting adults in FBI stats before they stopped publishing totals and just reported "rescues" of teenagers.
A Tucson man whose daughter was forced into trafficking is making it his mission to prevent this from happening to others. Jerry P. wants to end sex trafficking through education and his non-profit Sold No More. He says the average age of victims in Southern Arizona is just 13 years old. "This is an under the table hidden crime," says P. "My daughter was sex trafficked in Tucson 27 years ago, so this is not new."
Human sex trafficking is a $9.8 billion business in the U.S.
During a sporting event like the upcoming Super Bowl near Phoenix, girls can be sold to as many as 45 buyers in a night.
Aimee G. with Codac Behavioral Health Services says, "It's not uncommon at all, and it's going to follow where the business is, where the demand is, is where the pimps are going to take their prostitutes."
Within the last six months 120 Tucson Police officers and detectives have shown up for voluntary training.
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