American Football: Under-age sex trade booming at Super Bowl

[babsbunny]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/american-football-underage-sex-trade-booming-at-super-bowl-2205745.html

Thousands of young girls are trafficked by pimps cashing in on the biggest sports event in the US

By Mickey Goodman in Atlanta

Sunday, 6 February 2011

Pimps will traffic thousands of under-age prostitutes to Texas for today's Super Bowl, hoping to do business with men arriving for the big game with money to burn, child rights advocates said.

The country's largest sporting event, the game between the Green Bay Packers and the Pittsburgh Steelers will make the Dallas-Fort Worth area a magnet for business of all kinds, including the multimillion- dollar, under-age sex industry, said activists. Authorities are trying to combat the annual spike in trafficking of under-age girls that coincides with the game.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good luck to the authorities...

They're going to need it.

My heart goes out to the trafficked girls...

[Odin2005]

2. These fuckers make me wish there were a hell.

[provis99]

3. what a shitty article.

This crap pops up for every Superbowl; urban legends about how prostitution goes up. This article is a slimy attempt to link a real problem (underage prostitution) with a sporting event, for which they have absolutely zero evidence.

This article is no different than articles which proclaim year after year that wife beating goes up on Superbowl Sunday, again without any evidence.

[wtmusic]

4. Yes, but it sells newspapers. nt

[Sonoman]

6. Have you ever been in a city during SB or World Cup?

Or The Olympics?

Hookerville Deluxe.

The hotels simply look the other way.

Heck, in Dallas during World Cup games some years back, I even ran into multi-lingual hookers.

Sonoman

[catabryna]

5. This is like...

soooo two weeks ago. OMG!

[madrchsod]

7. ya right...what about their big football game?

[Obamanaut]

8. Additional responses at these earlier threads ->

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=355542

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=348527

[Dokkie]

9. I wonder what effects

legalizing prostitution would have on underground child prostitution?

Anyway K & R