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Child prostitution has become “an epidemic” in Oakland, CA partly because of the many foster care and group homes that are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.



 
 
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Old July 17th 07, 08:56 AM posted to alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.support.foster-parents,alt.dads-rights.unmoderated,alt.parenting.spanking
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Default Child prostitution has become “an epidemic” in Oakland, CA partly because of the many foster care and group homes that are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.

Police prostitution sting nets 131
Daily Journal wire report
Law enforcement officials said 131 people were arrested — including in
South San Francisco — in a prostitution and child exploitation sting
between July 6 and July 12 in conjunction with the Major League Baseball
All-Star game in San Francisco.

Oakland police spokesman Roland Holmgren said the sting was conducted
because “a significant number” of Oakland-based prostitutes ply their
trade at high profile events such as baseball all-star games, pro
football’s Super Bowl and the Hot August Nights festivities in Reno
every summer.

Of the 131 arrests made by 10 agencies that worked together, 46 were in
San Francisco, 40 were in Oakland, 28 were in other parts of Alameda
County, 11 were in San Jose and three each were in South San Francisco
and Campbell, Holmgren said.

Holmgren said law enforcement officials conducted undercover operations,
posed as prostitutes and engaged in Internet stings.

Joining Holmgren at a news conference at the state building in Oakland,
Nola Brantley, the director of the Sexually and Commercially Exploited
Youth program in Oakland, said child prostitution has become “an
epidemic” in the city, partly because many foster care and group homes
are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.

“Oakland is a hub for commercial sex exploitation,” Brantley said.

She said pimps recruit young girls from all over California as well as
from out of state to come to Oakland.

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums said his city can’t continue to “have children
exploited every day.”

Dellums said the solution is to coordinate law enforcement and social
services efforts from local, state and federal agencies.

“Band-aid and one-dimensional approaches won’t work,” he said.






CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....

CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.

every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.

BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...
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Old July 17th 07, 10:46 PM posted to alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.support.foster-parents,alt.dads-rights.unmoderated,alt.parenting.spanking
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Default Child prostitution has become "an epidemic" in Oakland, CA partly because of the many foster care and group homes that are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.

On Jul 17, 3:56 am, fx wrote:
Police prostitution sting nets 131
Daily Journal wire report
Law enforcement officials said 131 people were arrested - including in
South San Francisco - in a prostitution and child exploitation sting
between July 6 and July 12 in conjunction with the Major League Baseball
All-Star game in San Francisco.

Oakland police spokesman Roland Holmgren said the sting was conducted
because "a significant number" of Oakland-based prostitutes ply their
trade at high profile events such as baseball all-star games, pro
football's Super Bowl and the Hot August Nights festivities in Reno
every summer.

Of the 131 arrests made by 10 agencies that worked together, 46 were in
San Francisco, 40 were in Oakland, 28 were in other parts of Alameda
County, 11 were in San Jose and three each were in South San Francisco
and Campbell, Holmgren said.

Holmgren said law enforcement officials conducted undercover operations,
posed as prostitutes and engaged in Internet stings.

Joining Holmgren at a news conference at the state building in Oakland,
Nola Brantley, the director of the Sexually and Commercially Exploited
Youth program in Oakland, said child prostitution has become "an
epidemic" in the city, partly because many foster care and group homes
are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.

"Oakland is a hub for commercial sex exploitation," Brantley said.

She said pimps recruit young girls from all over California as well as
from out of state to come to Oakland.

Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums said his city can't continue to "have children
exploited every day."

Dellums said the solution is to coordinate law enforcement and social
services efforts from local, state and federal agencies.

"Band-aid and one-dimensional approaches won't work," he said.


I did notice that not one of the 131 arrests were children.

Where IS that epidemic?

Nola Brantley seems to be jumping on te bandwagon looking for
FUNDING!!!

http://havefundogood.blogspot.com/20...antley-of.html

September of 2006 Brantley said,

"I was sexually exploited [as a minor], and I was preyed upon by a
police officer in San Francisco who was supposed to be working a court
program that interacted with high school students, and he actually
ended up sexually exploiting me over the course of the next year, and
he did eventually exploit another minor too, and ended up getting
kicked off of the police force. I didn't realize that I had been
sexually exploited until I first started to get into this work, and
when I realized I had a personal experience with it, it really gave me
a passion, and really made me want to get involved, because I
understood how much the girls don't understand they're being exploited
at the time that it's happening. For a lot of these girls, their
stories, and their situations were so, so horrific.

Not a lot of people can do this work, because not a lot of people
could even deal with what they have to do as they listen to these
girls' stories. You think most of these girls, they're just troubled
girls. No, most of these girls that are out there, they have some
horrific stores, like, 'My mom died and I was passed around to three
relatives,' 'I was molested by an uncle.' It's not anything small.
They have really huge stories of past trauma and past abuse, and just
all kinds of things. I got kind of attached to the population, too,
and I wanted to see the work play itself through. I want to see the
numbers in the city of Oakland decrease, so I'm committed to sticking
to doing this until there's a drop. As long as it's increasing, I'm
not going to walk away from it."

She didn't realize she had been sexually expoited for a year till she
started working in the sexually expoited youth program?

Hmmmmmmmm......

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Old July 17th 07, 11:22 PM posted to alt.support.child-protective-services,alt.support.foster-parents,alt.dads-rights.unmoderated,alt.parenting.spanking
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Default Child prostitution has become “an epidemic” in Oakland, CA partly because of the many foster care and group homes that are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.

fx wrote:
Police prostitution sting nets 131
Daily Journal wire report
Law enforcement officials said 131 people were arrested — including in
South San Francisco — in a prostitution and child exploitation sting
between July 6 and July 12 in conjunction with the Major League Baseball
All-Star game in San Francisco.

Oakland police spokesman Roland Holmgren said the sting was conducted
because “a significant number” of Oakland-based prostitutes ply their
trade at high profile events such as baseball all-star games, pro
football’s Super Bowl and the Hot August Nights festivities in Reno
every summer.

Of the 131 arrests made by 10 agencies that worked together, 46 were in
San Francisco, 40 were in Oakland, 28 were in other parts of Alameda
County, 11 were in San Jose and three each were in South San Francisco
and Campbell, Holmgren said.

Holmgren said law enforcement officials conducted undercover operations,
posed as prostitutes and engaged in Internet stings.

Joining Holmgren at a news conference at the state building in Oakland,
Nola Brantley, the director of the Sexually and Commercially Exploited
Youth program in Oakland, said child prostitution has become “an
epidemic” in the city, partly because many foster care and group homes
are located there and pimps recruit girls at such facilities.


Do you think that this is accurate, or poor syntax?

It claims that the pimps are doing the recruiting AT the facilities, or
as is more likely, recruiting girls that are IN such facilities?

Like they can't leave? To go an be recruited at the mall, and other
places kids hang?

Of course they can. Hell, in a mental health treatment facility for
teens they were allowed to leave the premises. Mainly because it's (as I
suspect also in California) ILLEGAL TO TRY AND STOP THEM IF THEY WISH TO.


“Oakland is a hub for commercial sex exploitation,” Brantley said.


Makes it sound like it's not going on much anywhere else.

Kiddo, the 'burbs, are a favorite spot. They have malls, and places kids
hang too.

It's not just an urban phenomena. You, a sworn law officer, and you
don't know this?

Weird, that's what it is.

Cities and suburbs, even rural area towns, all have this problem on a
scale that likely matches, for rates, this problem and not out of foster
homes, but out of CHILDREN who live in their parents homes.

It just gets carefully buried in the "nice" places.

I don't think you have a braincell left, or an honest bone in your body
posting these bits and pieces of driveling nonsense mostly from the
opinion pages. Here, dumb one. Read and heed:

Results 1 - 10 of about 145,000 for Recruiting kids for prostitution in
the suburbs and small towns. (0.35 seconds)
Prostitution - What it is
The most tangible consequence for children involved in prostitution is
the extremely ... These children come from inner cities, suburbs, and
small towns, ...
http://www.missingkids.com/missingki...US&PageId=1494
- 31k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this
[PDF]
Prostitution of Children and Child-Sex Tourism:
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat
These children come from inner cities, suburbs, and small towns, ......
developing prevention efforts to reduce recruitment into prostitution
and ...
www.missingkids.com/en_US/publications/NC73.pdf - Similar pages - Note this
Trafficking in Children
The recruitment of children into prostitution takes many forms. .... For
example, in a small town in BC, an Aboriginal girl was kidnapped from
her community ...
www.harbour.sfu.ca/freda/articles/traf1.htm - 45k - Cached - Similar
pages - Note this
Advancing Women’s Health Research — Phyllis Greenberger, MSW
The Global Fund for Women has documented trafficking’s rapid inroads
into America’s suburbs and small towns. Some young women, it reported,
were forced to ...
http://www.socialworktoday.com/archi...t2006p22.shtml - 39k - Cached -
Similar pages - Note this

Urban gangs seen moving into suburbs - The Boston Globe
Topsfield Police Chief Daniel O'Shea agreed that gangs can be a problem
for small towns. They might not be hanging on the town green, but that
doesn't ...
http://www.boston.com/news/local/art..._into_suburbs/
- Similar pages - Note this
Woman, 19, Charged In Online Sex Ring, Minnesota Teen Accused Of ...
(AP) A 19-year-old woman faces federal charges of recruiting minors for
.... was recruiting high school girls to work for her as prostitutes at a
town house ...
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/...n3052371.shtml - 98k -
Jul 16, 2007 - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

And CPS and foster and group homes have nothing to do with the
recruitment. Like the bank robber said when asked why he chose to be a
bank robber, "that's where the money is."

She said pimps recruit young girls from all over California as well as
from out of state to come to Oakland.


Opps! What's that up there? Kind of shoots your claims in the ass, now
doesn't it. The ONLY line you chose to use from the article, to try and
mislead people reading. Tsk, Michael, tsk.

Here's the actual article title:

Police prostitution sting nets 131

They didn't think the foster/group home link was of sufficient
importance to use as a headline...why did you?


Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums said his city can’t continue to “have children
exploited every day.”

Dellums said the solution is to coordinate law enforcement and social
services efforts from local, state and federal agencies.

“Band-aid and one-dimensional approaches won’t work,” he said.


Where would you put those teens without homes, Michael?







CURRENTLY CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES VIOLATES MORE CIVIL RIGHTS ON A
DAILY BASIS THEN ALL OTHER AGENCIES COMBINED INCLUDING THE NATIONAL
SECURITY AGENCY/CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WIRETAPPING PROGRAM....

CPS Does not protect children...
It is sickening how many children are subject to abuse, neglect and even
killed at the hands of Child Protective Services.

every parent should read this .pdf from
connecticut dcf watch...

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com/8x11.pdf

http://www.connecticutdcfwatch.com

Number of Cases per 100,000 children in the US
These numbers come from The National Center on
Child Abuse and Neglect in Washington. (NCCAN)
Recent numbers have increased significantly for CPS

*Perpetrators of Maltreatment*

Physical Abuse CPS 160, Parents 59
Sexual Abuse CPS 112, Parents 13
Neglect CPS 410, Parents 241
Medical Neglect CPS 14 Parents 12
Fatalities CPS 6.4, Parents 1.5

Imagine that, 6.4 children die at the hands of the very agencies that
are supposed to protect them and only 1.5 at the hands of parents per
100,000 children. CPS perpetrates more abuse, neglect, and sexual abuse
and kills more children then parents in the United States. If the
citizens of this country hold CPS to the same standards that they hold
parents too. No judge should ever put another child in the hands of ANY
government agency because CPS nationwide is guilty of more harm and
death than any human being combined. CPS nationwide is guilty of more
human rights violations and deaths of children then the homes from which
they were removed. When are the judges going to wake up and see that
they are sending children to their death and a life of abuse when
children are removed from safe homes based on the mere opinion of a
bunch of social workers.

BE SURE TO FIND OUT WHERE YOUR CANDIDATES STANDS ON THE ISSUE OF
REFORMING OR ABOLISHING CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES ("MAKE YOUR CANDIDATES
TAKE A STAND ON THIS ISSUE.") THEN REMEMBER TO VOTE ACCORDINGLY IF THEY
ARE "FAMILY UNFRIENDLY" IN THE NEXT ELECTION...

 




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