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Criminalizing clients would harm sex workers, not help them
It makes the industry more dangerous because clients are less willing to participate in safety screening, and it makes sex ...
Newsom (again) overrides Dems on sex trafficking
And Gov. Gavin Newsom is again intervening at the eleventh hour, issuing a statement moments before publication of this ...
What to know about California’s fight over harsher penalties for soliciting sex from older teens
A debate over whether to create harsher penalties for soliciting and buying sex from older teenagers exploded in the ...
Answering a prostitution ad is not trafficking, Massachusetts top court says
Responding to an online prostitution ad does not count as human trafficking, the state’s highest court ruled Friday, heading ...
Diddy's claims of 'diminished' mental capacity take center stage days before sex trafficking trial
Prosecutors in Diddy's sex-trafficking case asked for expert testimony regarding the rapper's "diminished" mental capacity be ...
Man who financed FLDS cult leader to be sentenced in Arizona child sex trafficking case
LaDell Bistline had the girls and women. Torrance Bistline had the money,” federal prosecutor Dimitra Sampson said during the ...
Who is Diddy? Everything to know about hip-hop mogul facing federal sex crimes trial
Sean "Diddy" Combs is set to go to trial in his federal sex crimes case. Here's a look back at the hip-hop mogul's life, career and fall from grace.
Author of California child sex trafficking bill forced to exclude felony charge for buyers of teen victims
A bill intended to target those who purchase teenagers of a certain age for sex is being challenged by Democratic California ...