70% of Child Prostitutes are Foster Children
According to FBI agent Gregory Christopher--who was recently named the State/Federal Law Enforcement Officer of the Year--"about 70 percent" of child prostitutes in the Tampa area are foster children.
"A lot of these kids are foster kids, runaway kids. There's not a lot of people looking out for them. I'd say about 70 percent or so are foster kids."
Last year, 22 children were removed from their pimps in Hillsborough and Pinellas county Florida. According to Christopher, "I have no doubt there's a lot more out there. I get at least two or three leads a week. We can't ...
International Perspective on Public Access to Juvenile Proceedings
Longtime contributer to this blog and internationally known social work expert Daniel Pollack has just published a fascinating article in the International Social Work Journal entitled Opening Juvenile Proceedings to the Public and the Media: An international Social Work Perspective.
According to Professor Pollack, for youth offenders around the world, any contact with their country's juvenile justice system is serious business. In this concise legal note, Pollack discusses whether there should be a presumption that juvenile proceedings to be open or closed to the public ...
Amazon Presents a Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure
There simply are not enough hours in the day to smack down all the pedo material on Wikiepdia, Facebook and now Amazon. For once the mainstream media scooped this blog by reporting on a recently listed self-published e-book entitled The Pedophile's Guide to Love and Pleasure: a Child-lover's Code of Conduct by "I-am-not-a-pedophile" author Philip R. Greaves II.
There's lots to digest in this story which MSNBC has been following closely. I'm not sure where the story first originated, but needless to say it has spread quickly around the globe. According to this excellent ...
Facebook (STILL) Promoting Child Pornography
Infamous child pornographer Richard Steve Goldberg whose trademark r@ygold is a longtime, well-recognized tag for hardcore child pornography, has a Facebook interest group with almost 300 fans.
Unfortunately, there's lots more thanks to an anonymous reader of this blog who assembled a damning cornucopia of profiles and links to such Facebook interest groups as "incest," "preteen hardcore," "our little group," and "lolita."
Favorite activities ranged from "spanking kids," to "preteen hardcore lover," "incest," and "I like chubby boys." The well known East European child ...
Judicial Stupidity – It’s Okay to Sue a Four Year Old Child
Justice Paul Wooten of State Supreme Court in Manhattan presumably doesn't have children. He also apparently doesn't have any common sense because he recently ruled that:
Infants under the age of 4 are conclusively presumed incapable of negligence, Juliet Breitman, however, was over the age of 4 at the time of the subject incident. For infants above the age of 4, there is no bright-line rule.
Juliet was 4 years 9 months old when her tricycle when she struck an 87-year-old woman who was walking in front of the building.
Judge Wooten added that any “reasonably ...
Facebook’s Child Pornography Problem
An ongoing FoxNews.com investigation has revealed that Facebook is failing to prevent child predators from posting suggestive and potentially illegal photographs of children on its website.
The world's largest social network employs content filters that automatically scan for basic keywords commonly associated with child exploitive material. Those filters, if they are properly employed, should flag much of the offensive material found on the site, cybersecurity experts say.
But in a lengthy telephone interview on Oct. 6, FoxNews.com took two Facebook executives on a ...
Facebook Purges Pedo Pages
Facebook has begun to remove pages that refer to the North American Man/Boy Love Association following a FoxNews.com exclusive report that revealed the nefarious pedophile advocacy group's presence on the popular social networking site.
Group pages that have been scrubbed from Facebook include:
The Greensburg group of the North American Man Boy Love Association, whose page featured a photo of a young child;
“N.A.M.B.L.A. (East Lansing Chapter), which had a photo of a child who appeared to be about 5 years old.
“NAMBLA” in the “Organizations-Adv...