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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: FBI announces rescue of 105 CHILDREN in 76 cities... 150 "pimps" arrested. [View all]zazen
(2,978 posts)103. I hope they publish the photos of the johns in major papers
It's the "demand" for this shit that really blows me away. A small percentage of humans will be sick and evil, but the larger number of men who somehow deny that the girl they think is "freely" exchanging sex for money is 14 and coerced--or who don't bother to find out--just stuns me.
These are clearly not the supposedly empowered sex workers putting themselves through college or paying the bills as single parents that the pro-pornography crowd always trots out. If johns want to patronize them, so be it--but a crying or obviously drugged 13-year-old? Who could get an erection, let alone have an orgasm, while inflicting that kind of suffering?
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BREAKING: FBI announces rescue of 105 CHILDREN in 76 cities... 150 "pimps" arrested. [View all]
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
OP
Lisa Ling did a documentary on child prostitution in our nation's capital.
justiceischeap
Jul 2013
#8
True, they might have their own little NSA type thing going for crimes of this kind.
Whisp
Jul 2013
#39
Please tell me you're not trying to claim this is as a vindication of mass domestic surveillance.
Marr
Jul 2013
#97
I'm sure some asshole will argue about the methods used to rescue 105 children.
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#20
Yep, but what I'm saying is I don't care about the means that led to this end.
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#45
Find your moral bearing. You're heading straight into irrational hate-filled right wing waters.
Ed Suspicious
Jul 2013
#63
It's tough for many people to understand the difference between a visceral reaction...
LanternWaste
Jul 2013
#62
This is good news, I hope this is a crime in which there will be curtailed. Good work for all who
Thinkingabout
Jul 2013
#18
I can't imagine what it's like to work to free these kids, dealing with these scumbags.
freshwest
Jul 2013
#27
Child Sex Trafficking Rescue: FBI Saves 105 Victims in 'Operation Cross Country'
Eugene
Jul 2013
#28
Wonderful news. I can't imagine the horror of that these children's lives have been.
morningfog
Jul 2013
#50
Proud of these agents for doing this, no matter what is said about them. I wonder at times if those
freshwest
Jul 2013
#64
We already see the usual suspects chiming in with their snide remarks.
AllINeedIsCoffee
Jul 2013
#75
Cue announcement: "NSA phone data was critical to the success of our investigation"
wtmusic
Jul 2013
#72