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Advocate.com
April 26, 2018
Thomas Roberts — the out journalist who recently hosted an MSNBC program — is in the middle of the Special Counsel investigation probing whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russian officials to influence the 2016 election. (RELATED: After Leaving MSNBC, What's Next for Thomas Roberts?)
Newstalk ZB
April 26, 2018
A law expert believes the legal wording is stopping prostitution from counting as points towards immigration. Immigration New Zealand has confirmed sex work is on the skilled employment list, despite it not being on the skill-shortage list. But Queen City Law senior solicitor Bradley So says told KateÃâà...
Zee News
April 26, 2018
New Zealand has opened its doors to immigrants who are sex workers, prostitutes, and escort service providers. According to Immigration NZ (INZ) website those desirous of migrating to New Zealand for a new life can now claim valuable points as skilled sex workers or escorts add it as a new skill to theirÃâà...
Independent.ie
April 26, 2018
On at least one occasion he threatened to contact a newspaper and expose the prostitutes' clients, which gardai believe was an attempt at further extorting the robbery victims. Detectives at Store Street Garda Station have identified a chief suspect in the case, who they are convinced was behind all of theÃâà...
CBS Los Angeles
April 26, 2018
SAN BERNARDINO (CBSLA) — San Bernardino police arrested two Colton residents on charges of human trafficking last week after the pair allegedly tried to run down a a 17-year-old girl who refused to work as a prostitute, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. According toÃâà...
The Independent
April 24, 2018
Newly declassified memos seem to show the president twice told FBI director James Comey that he could not possibly have watched prostitutes urinate on a bed once used by Barack Obama because he did not spend a night in Moscow in November 2013. Instead, the president allegedly claimed,Ãâà...
Ghafla!
March 27, 2018
The commissioner of CHRAJ, Mr Joseph Whittal proposes a controversial idea. Also, the idea is unconventional. However, it is a way to deal with the numerous issues facing prostitutes in Ghana. Loading... Women who engage in prostitution in this country have to deal with endless challenges. MoreoverÃâà...
WQOW TV News 18
March 27, 2018
Wayne S. Erickson was charged with responding to an ad on backpage.com, and arranging to meet a prostitute for sex for $50. The ad was actually placed by an undercover officer. When he was arrested, Erickson first said he had been set up by a girlfriend who placed the ad, then claimed to have no ideaÃâà...
Bristol Post
March 27, 2018
A convicted rapist who preyed on prostitutes in a series of ferocious attacks in Bristol has died in prison. Ricardo ... At his trial in 2001, prosecutor Martin Picton said Holgate had targeted women in St Paul's and Easton areas of the city, who were funding their drugs habit by working as prostitutes. He hadÃâà...
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
March 27, 2018
WILKES-BARRE — After spending nearly a decade in prison on a child rape charge, a Nanticoke man found himself being sent back for at least two years on Friday after telling prosecutors during a polygraph test that he was seeking out prostitutes. Victor J. Keller, 49, pleaded guilty in 2008 to sexuallyÃâà...
The News Minute
March 26, 2018
For decades, women from the film industry have been characterised as 'prostitutes' and 'homewreckers', discouraging many from taking up the profession. ... While being a 'prostitute' is considered shameful, their (mostly) male visitors are only euphemistically referred to as 'customers' or 'clients'. It's onlyÃâà...
ChristianityToday.com
March 26, 2018
Raskolnikov later meets a young woman, Sonia, who has been compelled by poverty to become a prostitute to support her family. He is immediately drawn to her, and after he learns that Sonia had been friends with Lizaveta, he feels compelled to confess his murders to her. He finally musters up theÃâà...
Berea Mail
March 24, 2018
A resident of Churchill Road, Morningside said the road was becoming a taxi rank and haven for prostitutes. 6 hours ... A FAST developing 'taxi rank' and an influx of prostitutes in Churchill Road, Morningside, has local residents calling on authorities to put a stop to these activities as a matter of urgency.
Mirror.co.uk
March 24, 2018
A drunk woman was thrown off an easyJet flight from Manchester after launching a tirade of abuse at fellow passengers and crew. The plane's captain was forced to land in Athens, Greece, when trouble erupted on the way to Paphos, Cyprus, on Friday night. Four passengers were thrown off the flight afterÃâà...
Houston Chronicle
March 24, 2018
“Why,” asks one detractor, “would @real DonaldTrump want to risk infecting himself with venereal diseases harbored by the prostitute third rate porn star @StormyDaniels.” As if it's her morality that should trouble us. Granted, few of us would run bragging to the neighbors if a daughter — or son — enteredÃâà...
Chicago Sun-Times
March 23, 2018
When threatened by a prostitute for not producing the cash during an agreed upon sex transaction, her 88-year-old customer grabbed a handgun from beneath his pillow and shot her in the leg, Cook County prosecutors alleged during a bond hearing Thursday. “You'll see what happens,” the 22-year-oldÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
March 23, 2018
An 88-year-old Rosemoor man who police said suffers from dementia shot a pregnant young prostitute after they quarreled over a $20 debt at his Far South Side home, Cook County prosecutors said Thursday. The shooting at Gene Sanderlin's home in the 10400 block of South King Drive about 3:45 p.m.Ãâà...
News 12 Bronx
March 23, 2018
Police say the 30-year-old man met with the three prostitutes inside of a motel room for a night of partying. However, police say around 7 a.m., two men armed with guns broke into the motel room and stole $96,000 from inside a backpack. Police say the victim told investigators the cash was from a recentÃâà...
Miami Herald
March 22, 2018
They chatted on Facebook, and he agreed to pay her $75 and meet at a Circle K Tuesday in Jacksonville, according to Putnam County Sheriff's Office. When Patrick Dean arrived at the store on State Road 20, he reportedly messaged the “woman” to tell her he was there and “waiting.” But the “woman” onÃâà...
The Sun
March 19, 2018
Jeremy Kyle Show guest shocks audience as she hits prostitute in the head after accusing her of stealing ... Self-declared prostitute Danielle, who viewers likened to Little Britain's Vicky Pollard due to her rapid fire mouth, admitted she slept with men for money and used to take heroin in a bid to own herÃâà...
STLtoday.com
March 19, 2018
ST. LOUIS • Two men were indicted here on a sex trafficking charge Thursday and accused of recruiting three heroin addicts as prostitutes, including one who was underage. Alexander J. Coleman, 33, and Demarcos V. Bolden, 30, were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force,Ãâà...
Stuff.co.nz
March 18, 2018
Often temporary migrants, particularly international students, were unaware it was illegal for them to work in the sex industry, she said. The application of the Immigration Act, section 19, in the Prostitution Reform Act deems it illegal for any temporary migrant to work as a prostitute or invest in any businessÃâà...
The Star
March 16, 2018
The rape of a woman working as a prostitute in Sheffield has lead to a police warning being issued. ... DCI Jackson said the city's sex industry has changed over recent years and there are fewer prostitutes now working on the streets, with punters often using massage parlours and 'pop up brothels' instead.
Irish Times
March 16, 2018
Garth Davis's film is here to inform us – or remind us – that Mary Magdalene was, contrary to the teachings of medieval popes, never described in the gospels as a prostitute. The explanation is there in black and white at the end of the picture. “You are my witness,” the risen Jesus says elsewhere. So sheÃâà...
The News Journal
March 16, 2018
More than 150 people called or texted a phone number posted in an advertisement by Newark police, thinking the woman they were contacting was a prostitute. Six men showed up at the undisclosed hotel after texting with undercover officers and detectives, looking to "solicit the female for prostitution" inÃâà...
CTV News
March 16, 2018
A first investigation into what happened during a bloody hammer attack on a sex worker in Maple Ridge five years ago was concluded after police investigated the victim's record as a prostitute, documents show. But this year, officers investigating a string of attacks against women – many of them sexÃâà...
Artsy
March 16, 2018
Nineteenth-century Paris was obsessed with prostitutes. Courtesans (as the expensive mistresses of politicians, businessmen, and princes were known) rose from poverty to enjoy the glitz and glamour of the city's wealthiest elite using what can only be called sheer hustle. They commanded the era'sÃâà...
STLtoday.com
March 16, 2018
ST. LOUIS • Two men were indicted here on a sex trafficking charge Thursday and accused of recruiting three heroin addicts as prostitutes, including one who was underage. Alexander J. Coleman, 33, and Demarcos V. Bolden, 30, were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force,Ãâà...
CTV News
March 15, 2018
A first investigation into what happened during a bloody hammer attack on a sex worker in Maple Ridge five years ago was concluded after police investigated the victim's record as a prostitute, documents show. But this year, officers investigating a string of attacks against women – many of them sexÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 13, 2018
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles prostitute known as "Pretty Hoe" on social media has been charged with sex trafficking. Federal prosecutors said Melanie Denae Williams was charged Tuesday with trafficking minors for sex and using force or fraud to coerce an adult into prostitution. The indictmentÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 9, 2018
John Steinberger, shown here as the commander of Destroyer Squadron 1, worked for a sexual assault prevention program while awaiting a court-martial in connection with charges of patronizing prostitutes as part of the "Fat Leonard" scandal. (MC3 Christine Walker-Singh/Navy). An officer accused ofÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
March 6, 2018
PATERSON — A jury this morning convicted Samuel Rua III of murder and all counts of weapons possession in the fatal stabbing of Nadhjier Barner-Timmons, the teenage prostitute who was killed on the railroad tracks in Paterson on the night of April 25, 2015. Rua, a machinist from Union City, showedÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 6, 2018
Earlier, as soon as Mangiacapra realized he was unfortunate enough to have become the priests' favorite boy toy, started to write a book called "Il Numero Uno. Confessioni di un Marchettaro" ("The Number One. Confessions of a Prostitute"), in which he included messenger chats, provocative screenshotsÃâà...
WSOC Charlotte
March 6, 2018
CHARLOTTE, NC - A criminal complaint filed in federal court alleges a man at a hotel in Hickory, NC contacted an escort on the backpage.com website and asked what she'd charge to help him sexually assault a 6-year-old girl. The woman was in Charleston, SC and contacted police there. Police wereÃâà...
cleveland.com
March 6, 2018
The circumstances surrounding his arrest have not been released and a Cleveland police spokeswoman said they had no additional details because his arrest resulted from an Internal Affairs investigation. Strollo about 1 p.m. Sunday solicited a prostitute on Chambers Avenue in Cleveland's Slavic VillageÃâà...
NJ.com
March 2, 2018
Simon was arrested by Clifton police on Feb. 17, two days after an incident at a hotel in the Harmon Meadow complex in which he is accused of robbing two cellphones from a prostitute after demanding drugs and money. Police in the Passaic County city found the badge, jacket and handcuffs in Simon's carÃâà...
Express.co.uk
March 2, 2018
Lorenzo is currently serving a life sentence in the United States for killing 13 women, most of whom were prostitutes. Despite being one of ... Have you ever had sex with a prostitute?" "I don't know? ... Shocked by what he just heard, Piers cut in saying: “So you think all women are prostitutes? Explain whatÃâà...
Seattle Times
March 2, 2018
CHICAGO (AP) — An attorney wants a court to impose sanctions on the city of Chicago after one of its attorneys asked the mother of a teenager fatally shot by a police officer three years ago whether she conceived her son while working as a prostitute. The Chicago Tribune reports that Basileios FoutrisÃâà...
The Independent
March 2, 2018
Former prostitutes should not be made to reveal their convictions, the High Court has ruled, in a landmark judgment that marks a step towards decriminalisation. Three female former sex workers who said they were “groomed, pimped and trafficked” argued that the law currently discriminates against womenÃâà...
The Guardian
March 2, 2018
Lawyers said the case has the potential to bring about real change for sex trade survivors. Photograph: Alamy. A woman who was forced into sex work as a teenager will no longer have to reveal her criminal convictions to potential employers after winning a battle in the high court. Fiona Broadfoot, whoÃâà...
Marshfield News-Herald
March 1, 2018
At 3:29 p.m. Wednesday, a caller said someone was speeding near the intersection of 80th Street North and State 54 in Grand Rapids. Ãâû At 5:38 p.m. Wednesday, a woman said she was receiving sexual text messages from someone she believed was a male prostitute in Seneca. Ãâû At 8:10 p.m. Wednesday,Ãâà...
KOLO
February 28, 2018
RENO, Nev. (KOLO) - A Reno man has been sentenced to ten years in prison on pandering charges. The case stems from an investigation by the Reno Police Department's Street Enforcement Team (RPDSET) into reports that 22-year-old Diondrea Lamar Parker was bringing teenage girls to the Reno areaÃâà...
Chron.com
February 27, 2018
Of the 178 men arrested in Houston last year during a massive crackdown on prostitution, charges have been dismissed or are on track for dismissal in nearly 70 percent of the criminal cases a year later, according to a Houston Chronicle review of public arrest records. The high rate of dismissals for menÃâà...
The Guardian
February 9, 2018
Lee, a law graduate, said the law had not diminished the supply and demand for sex work in Northern Ireland. Photograph: Charles McQuillan/Getty Images. An Irish sex worker and international campaigner against laws that criminalise the clients of prostitutes has died suddenly, aged 39. Dublin-bornÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
December 31, 1999
The robberies involved a man posing as a police officer to hold up prostitutes throughout North Jersey, police said. Law enforcement officials said a series of robberies, all with similar or identical methods of operation, have targeted hotels in Clifton, Wayne, Lyndhurst, Rutherford, Morris Plains andÃâà...
Independent Online
December 31, 1999
“We are not vigilantes, we are not physically chasing anyone away, we are not accusing anyone of being a prostitute. ... There is an elderly couple whose house is at the beginning of a road well known as a hotspot where prostitutes solicit business, and the residents are old and can't get much sleep,” heÃâà...
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