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Jan 28, 2009

PROSTITUTION * USA - Thousands’ of teens said caught up in web of truck stop prostitution

USA -The Trucker, by DOROTHY COX -27 Jan 2009: -- Some truckers claim prostitution is only a matter of working girls trying to make a living and therefore, victimless. But according to statistics — and law enforcement — they’re either fooling themselves, misinformed, or both. An ABC TV Prime Time Crime special this summer asserted that “thousands of teens are forced into truck stop sex,” with an FBI spokesman adding that truck stops are uniquely suited to prostitution because at night the parking lots are isolated and out of the view of the public and police... One former career driver from Saline County, Arkansas, told The Trucker that the back parking lanes are known as “party row.”... “Anywhere there are big trucks delivering goods you’ll find prostitutes, both male and female; it’s a fact of life,” he said... Statistics show that these prostitutes often have been brutalized or sexually molested by a father or other male family member. Many are involved in drugs, authorities say... (One FBI “sting” on a prostitution ring in December of 2005 charged 31 individuals in four U.S. FBI districts and involving several truck stops. “These children are victimized twice,” asserts FBI Assistant Director Chris Swecker, “first by the handler who exploits them and secondly by the individual who solicits them.”)

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