WRATH Campaign

By LEVI PULKKINEN
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/417564_child29.html
March 29, 2010

A man and woman accused of abducting and pimping a University Place teen have been charged with child prostitution.

Behind bars since their arrests by Kent police Wednesday, Tory R. Hayes and Iesha R. Young are accused of luring the 17-year-old to a hotel and forcing her to “walk the track” on Pacific Highway South. According to charging documents, Young and Hayes threatened to harm the girl or her family during the day they held her against her will.

Speaking with detectives, the girl said Young approached her on March 12 at a Tacoma hotel. The girl told officers she was trying to get in touch with her mother at the time, and asked Young for help.

Young and the girl stayed up much of that Friday night discussing the hair salon Young claimed to operate.

“Iesha (Young) befriended (the girl) and the two talked quite a bit,” a Kent detective said in charging documents.

Before driving the girl home, Young offered her a job at the salon, according to charging documents. The prospect excited the girl, who was looking for work to help with her mother’s rent.

The girl contacted Young days later about the job offer, and was picked up by Young and a man. Rather than drive her to a SeaTac salon described by Young, though, the pair took the girl to a Kent hotel.

At the hotel, the girl saw a change in Young and Hayes, according to charging documents. Hayes told the teen she could make him “a lot of money.”

“You’re not going home tonight,” the 40-year-old Tacoma resident allegedly told the girl. “You’re gonna make me money.”

Young, 24, allegedly threatened to shock the girl with a Taser if she did not comply, and both reminded the girl they knew where she lived, according to charging documents.

Hayes drove Young and the girl to “the track” on Pacific Highway South, where Young supervised the girl as they solicited “johns,” prosecutors allege. During the night and the following day, March 18, Young found several men willing to pay for sex with the teen.

Investigators claim Young and Hayes forced the girl to take cocaine several times during the ordeal. They also allege Young and Hayes discussed taking the girl to Georgia.

At 11 p.m. on March 18, the pair took the girl to a Tacoma bar where Hayes allegedly instructed both females to solicit sex.

Seeing a chance to break free, the girl asked a bartender for help. As she did so, prosecutors allege Young and Hayes tried to drag her from the bar; a woman there ultimately gave her a ride home, where her mother called the police.

Having collected hotel records supporting the girl’s story, Kent police arrested Hayes and Young. According to police statements, Young attempted to blame the events on Hayes.

“I didn’t do none of this,” she allegedly told police. “(She) was here, but he did it all.”

Speaking with detectives, the girl said she felt “the emotional scarring she endured would last for the rest of her life,” the Kent detective told the court.

“She informed me that she felt angry and hurt by what Tory and Iesha did to her,” the detective said in court documents. “She also told me she wanted them to be held accountable so they wouldn’t hurt any other young girls like they hurt her.”

Both Hayes and Young remain jailed at the Norm Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Each has been charged with commercial sexual abuse of a minor, a felony.
Levi Pulkkinen can be reached at 206-448-8348 or levipulkkinen@seattlepi.com.

March 31, 2010 4:00 A.M.

Getting Serious About Pornography
It is ravaging American families.
http://article.nationalreview.com/429884/getting-serious-about-pornography/anonymous

Imagine a drug so powerful it can destroy a family simply by distorting a man’s perception of his wife. Picture an addiction so lethal it has the potential to render an entire generation incapable of forming lasting marriages and so widespread that it produces more annual revenue ­ $97 billion worldwide in 2006 ­ than all of the leading technology companies combined. Consider a narcotic so insidious that it evades serious scientific study and legislative action for decades, thriving instead under the ever-expanding banner of the First Amendment.

According to an online statistics firm, an estimated 40 million people use this drug on a regular basis. It doesn’t come in pill form. It can’t be smoked, injected, or snorted. And yet neurological data suggest its effects on the brain are strikingly similar to those of synthetic drugs. Indeed, two authorities on the neurochemistry of addiction, Harvey Milkman and Stanley Sunderwirth, claim it is the ability of this drug to influence all three pleasure systems in the brain ­ arousal, satiation, and fantasy ­ that makes it “the pièce de résistance among the addictions.”

Earlier this month, the Witherspoon Institute released a report examining “The Social Costs of Pornography,” signed by more than 50 scholars representing a wide array of professions, academic disciplines, and political views. The report details the considerable social costs that pornography exacts upon men, women, and children.

The findings of the report hit particularly close to home for me. By his own account, my husband of 13 years and high-school sweetheart, was first exposed to pornography around age ten. He viewed it regularly during high school and college ­ and, although he tried hard to stop, continued to do so throughout the course of our marriage. For the past few years he had taken to sleeping in the basement, distancing himself from me, emotionally and physically. Recently he began to reject my sexual advances outright, claiming he just didn’t “feel love” for me like he used to, and lamenting that he thought of me “more as the mother of our children” than as a sexual partner.

Then one morning around 2am he called, intoxicated, from his office to announce that he had “developed feelings” for someone new. The woman he became involved with was an unemployed alcoholic with all the physical qualities of a porn star ­ bleached blond hair, heavy makeup, provocative clothing, and large breasts. After the revelation, my husband tried to break off his relationship with this woman. But his remorse was short-lived. Within a few months he had moved permanently out of the home he shared with me and our five young children. In retrospect, I believe he succumbed to the allure of the secret fantasy life he had been indulging since his adolescence.

My husband is not alone. According to Dr. Victor Cline, a nationally renowned clinical psychologist who specializes in sexual addiction, pornography addiction is a process that undergoes four phases. First, addiction, resulting from early and repeated exposure accompanied by masturbation. Second, escalation, during which the addict requires more frequent porn exposure to achieve the same “highs” and may learn to prefer porn to sexual intercourse. Third, desensitization, during which the addict views as normal what was once considered repulsive or immoral. And finally, the acting-out phase, during which the addict runs an increased risk of making the leap from screen to real life.

This behavior may manifest itself in the form of promiscuity, voyeurism, exhibitionism, group sex, rape, sadomasochism, or even child molestation. The final phase may also be characterized by one or more extramarital affairs. A 2004 study published in Social Science Quarterly found that Internet users who had had an extramarital affair were 3.18 times more likely to have used online porn than Internet users who had not had an affair. Among other things, the Witherspoon report is a stern warning to all married women to take seriously the signs of a sexual addiction, before it is too late.

Perhaps the greatest hardship for women who fear they have lost (or are losing) a husband to Internet porn is the absence of a public consensus about the harmful effects of pornography on marriage. Consider what we know. In a study published in Sexual Addiction and Compulsivity, Schneider found that among the 68 percent of couples in which one person was addicted to Internet porn, one or both had lost interest in sex. Results of the same study, published in 2000, indicated that porn use was a major contributing factor to increased risk of separation and divorce. This finding is substantiated by results of a 2002 meeting of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, during which surveyed lawyers claimed that “an obsessive interest in Internet pornography” was a significant factor in 56 percent of their divorce cases the prior year.

Porn use creates the impression that aberrant sexual practices are more common than they really are, and that promiscuous behavior is normal. For example, in a 2000 meta-analysis of 46 published studies put out by the National Foundation for Family Research and Education at the University of Calgary, regular exposure to pornography increased risk of sexual deviancy (including lower age of first intercourse and excessive masturbation), increased belief in the “rape myth” (that women cause rape and rapists are normal), and was associated with negative attitudes regarding intimate relationships (e.g., rejecting the need for courtship and viewing persons as sexual objects). Indeed, neurological imaging confirms the latter finding. Susan Fiske, professor of psychology at Princeton University, used MRI scans to analyze the brain activity of men viewing pornography. She found that after viewing porn, men looked at women more as objects than as human beings.

The social implications of these data are significant, but we need to know more. The American Psychiatric Association is likely to add pornography addiction to their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual this year. Congress should fund a long-term, multidisciplinary analysis of the effects of porn addiction on marriage and family life. The National Institutes of Health are granted billions of taxpayer dollars for research on a wide variety of public-health problems, and yet pornography addiction is not among them. Most health-insurance companies provide little to no coverage for treatment of this problem, and the health-care legislation signed into law last week promises more of the same. The fact is that the moral and financial needs of couples struggling with this form of addiction will remain unaddressed in a country that views pornography use as a constitutional right.

I will never know with full certainty that pornography caused my husband to abandon me and our children. Although I loved him deeply, I was far from a perfect wife. In retrospect, I wish I had understood what he was experiencing and had acted to help him. If anything is clear to me, it is this: We must learn more about this scourge and its effects on families. The Witherspoon report makes it clear that countless women ­ and increasingly many men ­ have experienced the devastating effects of their spouse’s pornography use. Countless more will experience it in the future. It is our obligation as a nation to pursue the truth for their sake, no matter how inconvenient for some the verdict may be.

­ The author is a psychologist who lives with her children in Virginia.

CHICAGO (AP)  

Clinton Danner, 32, of Rockford, Minn., is charged with felony pandering for allegedly sending his wife to at least eight states to have sex with men in encounters he set up on online and forcing her to deposit the proceeds into his own bank account.

Cook County Sheriff’s Department/CBS

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster is reacting to the arrest of a Minnesota man accused of selling his wife’s sexual services on the online classified site.

Buckmaster didn’t comment on the specifics of the Chicago arrest. But he said Wednesday that Craigslist works with law enforcement when called upon to help solve and prosecute crimes.

He also warns that using Craigslist for criminal purposes “is extremely unwise” because it leads to an electronic trail.

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart says 32-year-old Clinton Danner from Rockford, Minn., convinced his wife she would never see their preschooler again if she didn’t have sex with strangers for money.

Danner was arrested Sunday at a Chicago hotel. He faces a felony charge and is being held on $150,000 bond. It isn’t clear if he has an attorney.

Come Visit WRATH at Marked: Coming March 27, 2010

Mar 01, 2010 10:49 PM EST Updated: Mar 01, 2010 11:42 PM EST By Jody Barrhttp://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=12066724 COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) -

$32 billion — that’s how much United Nations officials estimate human trafficking is worth around the world.

Now, before you go and dismiss it as a crime that only happens elsewhere in the world, be aware that the Palmetto State has seen a human trafficking case. Tucked away in a trailer park just a few miles outside the Columbia city limits was the center of South Carolina’s first human trafficking case. Inside was a child, smuggled into the US, then trafficked to a pimp and forced to service dozens of men a day in the Midlands.

 ”I told my agents, I said, ‘We’re going to treat this little girl like she’s our daughter and we’re going to hunt this little girl down and get her out of this trailer,’” said Ken Burkhart, an agent from Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Burkhart got a call from Mexican authorities in February 2007 about a 14-year-old runaway who called her sister in Mexico for help and gave a vague description of the trailer on Sharpe Road. ICE agents put the trailer under surveillance. On Feb. 27, 2007, the agents moved in.

 ”Wasn’t really seeing anything and with a minor being involved, I didn’t want to wait much longer, so we made the decision to simply knock on the door. When I knocked on the door the 14-year-old answered the door,” said Burkhart. “I was shocked. I didn’t expect that, I expected anybody else but my girl to answer that door.”

Unaware of who was inside, Burkhart knew he had to act fast. “I told her we had been in contact with her sister and shook her hand and just gently led her right out of the door and I had several agents, along with officers from the Richland County Sheriff’s Office who assisted, and just kind of passed her right over to those agents,” said Burkhart.

It took days, Burkhart says, before the girl agents called “AR” could trust them. “They have been trained not to trust law enforcement, that we’re the bad guys, that we’re really not there to help them, so initially AR would tell me that everything was fine, she was okay; she was in no danger,” said Burkhart.

 When she opened up, AR told investigators she was smuggled in from Mexico in July 2006 by Jesus Perez-Laguna. Perez-Laguna ran a sex trafficking ring in Charlotte where he pimped AR and several other girls out around the area for several weeks, pocketing the money the girls made. AR told investigators she was then traded out to Guatalupe Reyes-Rivera, also known as Mama Martina, who lived in Columbia.

 ”She actually liked her because she didn’t beat her like the man in Charlotte did,” said Burkhart. AR told investigators a third pimp, Ciro Bustos-Rosales, pimped her out at Columbia’s Mauldin Village Apartments on Mauldin Avenue, a few miles away from Columbia College. The girl was forced to have sex with dozens of men a day. In 2007, SLED director Reggie Lloyd was the US attorney who prosecuted the case against the three.

“We got our first look at really an organized human trafficking network in that case,” said Lloyd. It took Lloyd only six months to get convictions on Perez-Laguna and Bostos-Rosales.

“It ratchets up what is already a very horrible crime when you see women being treated like this, but when you see children being treated like this, it really makes you want to go after these guys and put them away,” said Lloyd.

 The obstacle for law enforcement is getting the public to accept the fact that human trafficking isn’t a foreign crime. “Most people don’t believe that this is going on, most people that have never seen it, never heard of it, so it makes it very difficult for them, as the average citizens to take a look at a situation and say, you know, this could be a human trafficking case,” said Lloyd. David Thomas heads up the FBI’s Columbia bureau.

“In it’s most basic form, it’s slavery,” said Thomas. Thomas says hot spots for trafficking include agriculture, strip bars, massage parlors, and tourist areas. Department of Justice figures show worldwide, there are nearly 900,000 human trafficking victims, with 20,000 inside the United States. Thomas says traffickers mainly target Asian and Latin American countries. The FBI says traffickers use natural disasters like the Indonesian tsunami, and the earthquake in Haiti to kidnap victims.

“They can be removed from those countries and no one knows who is the father of that child, or where is the family member, so it’s something that we really have to gear up and look at when we see these types of disasters occurring around the world,” said Thomas.

 For Lloyd, the only way to break human trafficking cases is for the public and law enforcement to accept the reality that human trafficking is real, and to take a closer look at crimes, like prostitution that could lead authorities to something much bigger. “These guys aren’t going to stop with just the women they’ve already put in these situations, they’re going to be constantly recruiting and bringing in more women and more girls into these situations,” said Lloyd. “If it’s not for the attention, if it’s not for the people understanding that yes, this is going on right here in our own backyard, it makes it very difficult for us to be able to identify and investigate these kind of cases,” said Lloyd.

 This case we profiled is still not closed. Federal agents are still trying to hunt down Mama Martina, whose real name is Guatalupe Reyes-Rivera for her role in this trafficking case. Both Perez-Laguna and Bostos-Rosales pleaded guilty in 2007. Perez-Laguna is serving a 14-year sentence, Bostos-Rosales is serving five-and-a-half years. The penalties for trafficking carry up to life in federal prison, and in some cases, qualifies for the death penalty