On Dec. 3, MSNBC aired MSNBC Undercover: Sex Slaves in America." The first part of the program focused on college students from Ukraine who thought they were coming to the U.S. for summer jobs in Virgina, but found themselves forced into stripping and prostitution at a Cheetah's club in Detroit. They managed to escape after a year, and their traffickers are now in jail.
The second part of the program featured "inspections" of massage parlor brothels in downtown San Francisco near Union Square. Various city health and building inspectors visited brothels and noted violations. Gavin Newsom was interviewed and was quite proud of these inspection teams. But the although the brothel owners seemed cranky at the fact they had to pay a fine, the status quo seemed to be maintained. The pimp got a fine and stern talking to, the inspectors left, the women resumed. Not a good day for San Francisco. It would have been so much more powerful if one of those places had been SHUT DOWN! Clearly the inspection teams need translators and transportation to get those women out of there and into services. And why are these pimps just allowed to continue pimping in plain view?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22083762/
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http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/22056066/page/5/
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