Prostitutes

"Work abroad. High pay. No experience needed." Such ads appear daily on the Internet and in newspapers across Russia and other nations of the former Soviet Union. In many cases, according to a coalition of women's and human rights groups here, they are the hook that lures girls and women into sexual slavery.

WASHINGTON - The prostitution scandal that has embroiled the Secret Service is not evidence of a wider culture of boozing and paying for sex among those who are trained to take a bullet for the president, the director of the agency told skeptical senators. The senators challenged Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan to explain how it was possible, without an atmosphere of permissiveness among the agency's supervisors, that 12 agents could go out in separate groups on April 11 in Cartagena, Colombia, independently decide to bring women back to their hotel rooms, and then sign the women in at the front desk next to the agents' real names.

About a dozen Philippine prostitutes infected with the AIDS virus have vanished and health officials said today they fear the women have gone underground to continue working in the sex trade.

The woman at the heart of the scandal that has tarnished the image of the Secret Service worldwide called the agents she ran into “stupid brutes” in an interview with NBC's “Today.” Dania Londono Suarez, speaking through a translator, had nothing but contempt for the agents and their behavior in Cartagena, Colombia prior to President Obama's arrival for the Summit of the Americas. “They were full of themselves,” she said. “I'm not to blame for being attractive,” she said after being asked if she has culpability for tempting the agents.

Cardinal Jaime Sin of the Philippines is a hypocrite! Moreover, his denunciation of prostitution in the Philippines as a moral failure of the Aquino government is undermined by his reluctance to acknowledge the major cause of the world's oldest profession. Blind to the rampant unemployment that daily squeezes hope from so many Filipinos, "his eminence" self-righteously admonishes prostitutes to "look for other employment, another way to work." Yet, he offers nothing concrete concerning the work these poor women might find.

Police in Anaheim and Stanton have stepped up their arrests of female prostitutes and their male customers along Beach Boulevard, where authorities say street prostitution has been on the increase since last summer. Recent large-scale arrests by both police departments have focused on the "Johns"--the male customers who cruise the north-south thoroughfare lined with motels and convenience stores as it passes through the two cities.

Apolice sting on Sepulveda Boulevard resulted in the arrests of 34 men and two women on suspicion of prostitution-related offenses, the Los Angeles Police Department reported Monday. Undercover policewomen walked along on the boulevard near Rayen Street in Sepulveda for about seven hours Friday night, and arrested men who solicited them for sex, Sgt. Frank Reynoso said. Male officers arrested two women for prostitution and lewd conduct, Reynoso said. Police set up the sting in response to residents' complaints that men driving along the boulevard were harassing neighborhood women, mistaking them for prostitutes, Reynoso said.

I realize that it must be difficult to find important news copy on the Tuesday after Labor Day, but how could you justify the article "Status Jobs," about a USC/UC Irvine "prestige" survey? I noticed that college professors rated high, but school teachers were omitted. To me, the teachers that deserve the most "prestige" are those that return to inner-city schools year after year. As for the "least prestigious jobs" ranking (dishwashers and prostitutes ranked 17th and 14th respectively)

An Orange County sheriff's deputy pleaded guilty Friday to falsely imprisoning prostitutes to sexually touch and photograph them under the guise of police work. Richard Rodriguez, 44, of Chino was convicted of two felony counts of false imprisonment by fraud and deceit in Orange County Superior Court. While in uniform, the deputy, assigned to the Orange County Transportation Authority, approached prostitutes along Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove between November 2005 and March 2007, according to Orange County prosecutors.

Tucked away by the railroad tracks near Sepulveda Boulevard is a bleak Van Nuys neighborhood where bravely tended bungalows are surrounded by aging apartments and industrial parks, check-cashing outlets, motels and other signposts of transiency and quick-hit crimes. At night its dead-end streets come alive with sex--perfunctory acts performed by prostitutes who walk Sepulveda and, to a lesser degree, Van Nuys Boulevard.

Two more Secret Service employees have resigned and another two have been cleared as part of the ongoing prostitution scandal investigation. According to the agency, the actions Tuesday bring to eight the number of employees who have resigned or left the agency for alleged misconduct in Cartagena, Colombia, ahead of President Obama's arrival for an international summit April 13. Three employees have now been cleared of serious misconduct but...

WASHINGTON -- An internal review found no evidence that White House staff members engaged in "improper conduct" in Cartagena, Colombia, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said. Carney said the Office of White House Counsel conducted the review of White House staff members "out of due diligence" and not in response to a "specific credible allegation. " The Colombian prostitution scandal has consumed much of Washington for more than a week and led to rampant speculation, as reports of heavy drinking and hard partying among a Secret Service and military advance team have leaked out.   "There is no indication that the White House advance team engaged in any improper conduct or behavior," Carney said.

? Three more Secret Service employees who were involved in the Colombian prostitution scandal are leaving the agency, bringing the total to a half-dozen agents or uniformed officers who saw their careers cut short in a widening investigation of alleged misconduct. The latest casualties of the embarrassing episode "have chosen to resign," according to Paul Morrissey, spokesman for the Secret Service. He also announced that a 12th agency employee is being investigated, one more than previously known.

WASHINGTON - Three more Secret Service employees who were involved in the Colombian prostitution scandal are leaving the agency, bringing the total to half a dozen agents or uniformed officers who saw their careers cut short in a widening investigation of alleged misconduct. The latest casualties of the embarrassing episode “have chosen to resign,” said Paul Morrissey, spokesman for the Secret Service. He also announced that a 12th agency employee is being investigated, one more than previously known.

WASHINGTON - More resignations are expected soon in the Secret Service prostitution scandal. "It is our understanding the resignations could come today or tomorrow," Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Thursday. He has been briefed by Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan. The Secret Service announced Wednesday that it was seeking to fire one supervisor tied to the alleged misconduct. Another supervisor is retiring, and a third agent will be allowed to retire.

WASHINGTON - Three Secret Service agents implicated in a prostitution scandal in Colombia - including two supervisors - are leaving the agency as investigators seek to determine whether the embarrassing episode led to a security breach. Officials said it appeared that none of the 11 Secret Service agents who allegedly brought prostitutes to their hotel rooms in Cartagena before President Obama arrived for the Summit of the Americas last weekend had weapons, radios, schedules or other potentially sensitive material in their rooms.

Prostitutes in the Turkish town of Nazilli expect trade to pick up since they helped to buy AIDS diagnosis equipment for the local hospital. The Anatolian news agency quoted the hospital chief, Dr. Hasan Yildirim, as saying the women contributed over half the cost of the $650,000 equipment. He said none of the women tested positive for the virus which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

The body of a 20th prostitute has been found in Iran less than a week after the capture of a suspect who confessed to killing prostitutes for "the sake of God." The killings have forced officials in Iran to acknowledge the existence of widespread prostitution in the fundamentalist Muslim country. The latest victim was found on a highway near Tehran, the Jam-e Jam newspaper reported. Editors at the state-owned daily said the body was discovered Wednesday.