The couple's daughter, who had just turned 17, was detained but not arrested. He pleaded not guilty to charges of statutory rape and was held in lieu of $35,000 bail. Vice squad officers found her in a downtown apartment with Bruce William Carter, a 21-year-old man who police said had posed on the Internet holding fistfuls of cash. They waited for hours at police headquarters in hopes that their daughter would be found. Roslyn and Sergio's daughter had been missing for more than two weeks. Watch how investigators work to catch pimps »Ĭhild prostitution is even tougher on the parents of these girls. Oftentimes, their work is heart-wrenching. ![]() It is not uncommon for the officers on the unit to put in 30-hour shifts. "I think everybody on the team has different reactions to it, but I just flat out get really angry that some guy thinks he can take this girl and basically deprive her of her freedom." "It really makes me angry," Seyffert said. cities, is to decriminalize the girls and concentrate on catching the pimps who control them. The goal of the program, which is now in almost 30 U.S. Sacramento police are working with the FBI as part of a nationwide campaign to combat underage prostitution called Innocence Lost. Surviving is basically what they're doing." Pam Seyffert of the Sacramento Police Department. which is to stop what they're doing," said Sgt. "We're asking these girls to do a big thing. Those are just the official figures investigators think there are many more child prostitutes out there. Most of the girls were released to foster or group homes. Two Utah men, Matthew Duhamel and Charles Granere, are facing federal child pornography charges for a child modeling site that featured minors in lingerie.Police have nabbed nearly 70 girls under the age of 18 since 2005. The filing of criminal charges against Webe Web is at least the second federal criminal case brought against operators of Web sites featuring minors in provocative poses. The bill died in committee amid objections from civil libertarians and commercial interests.įoley resigned from Congress in September after it was reported that he exchanged inappropriate e-mails with a teenage page. ![]() Mark Foley, R-Fla., who in 2002 introduced a bill called the Child Modeling Exploitation Prevention Act to attempt to tighten restrictions on the sale of photographs of minors. The sites also attracted the attention of Rep. Webe Web representatives defended the business model, denying the sites were aimed at pedophiles, but the controversy snowballed, and soon the company was featured in unflattering spots on national news programs like “Dateline NBC” and “Oprah.” Some are posed with facial expressions and in positions that suggest a willingness to engage in sexual activity.” “The children are dressed in underwear, adult lingerie, high heels, etc., and placed in sexually suggestive poses which focus the viewer's attention on the genital or pubic area. “There are no semi-nude or nude images,” she said. No nudity, but ‘sexually suggestive poses’ ![]() In an e-mail interview, Martin told that prosecutors will press charges against the defendants for photos showing the young girls scantily clothed but not nude under a federal statute that deems images that “show lascivious exhibition of the genitals or pubic area” to be child pornography. “Here lewd has met lucrative, and exploitation of a child’s innocence equals profits.” Martin said in a statement announcing the indictments and the closure of all the Webe Web sites. “The images charged are not legitimate child modeling, but rather lascivious poses one would expect to see in an adult magazine,” U.S. Authorities said Pierson is cooperating with prosecutors. Photographer Jeff Pierson of Brookwood, Ala., also was charged with two counts of using a computer to “transport child pornography in interstate commerce” from January 2003 through 2004.
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