Authorities have arrested 20 people in Atlantic City for prostitution. A woman who recruited a year-old runaway to be a prostitute and solicited clients on a website that advertises escort services is now headed to prison. Police say they cracked an Austin prostitution ring they were led to by a drainage pipe clogged with condoms. Police say they have two suspects in custody, the male driver and a woman. A central Pennsylvania woman accused of running a prostitution service out of her home says she charged only for massages, and that any sex that occurred with clients afterward was just "free fun.
He also talked with aviation lawyer Arthur Wolk and Dr. Katie Schultheis. The Eyewitness News I-Team went inside a Philadelphia hotel with police to reveal how Citywide Vice is changing its tactics to target prostitution. An investigation then revealed that Hall was allegedly forcing the woman to engage in prostitution several times a day by threatening her with violence.
Rich talked about the reaction to the latest edition of the Charlie Hebdo magazine in France, the re-defining of prostitution in Seattle, and Nancy Grace's interview with rapper 2 Chains. He also talked to Ariela Migdal from the ACLU about her representation of a woman fighting to keep her job while she is pregnant. Is the posting of a suspect's mug shot without his consent legal? Does it matter if the person is never convicted? Officials say the three ran a striptease club and brothel they called "Passionate Touch" in the Cathedral Park section of the city between May and August Robert Menendez said Tuesday that he has asked the Justice Department to investigate whether the Cuban government had a role in allegations against him that have made him a target of a federal probe.
A man and woman have been charged with allegedly committing human trafficking by prostituting a year-old girl. A year-old male was among five suspects arrested in a prostitution crackdown in Philadelphia. The investigation began when a year-old woman from South Carolina called police from New Jersey hotel reporting that she had been held against her will for week and was forced to perform sexual acts with numerous males for money.
The FBI and dozens of law enforcement agencies rescued 16 juveniles during an operation that targeted forced prostitution around the Super Bowl. Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia have jailed a city man on sex trafficking charges, saying he forced two women and a minor girl into prostitution after first dating them. The attorney general's office said Thursday that year-old Marc A. Branch faces first-degree human trafficking and sexual assault charges as well as other counts.
