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Wed, Dec 8, 2010 -- 9:00 AM
Underage Sex Trafficking
Brett Myers/Youth Radio
An Oakland police officer takes a booking photo of an adult woman arrested for prostitution
More than 100,000 children are trafficked into prostitution nationwide each year. Oakland is known as a hub for the underage sex trade, but it's also home to model social service and criminal justice programs working on the issue.
Host: Scott Shafer
Guests:
- Denise Tejada, reporter for Youth Radio behind a two-part series on underage sex trafficking, part one of which aired on NPR's "All Things Considered" this week
- Holly Joshi, former member of the Human Trafficking Task Force and current public information officer for the Oakland Police Department
- Nola Brantley, executive director and co-founder of Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting, and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth (MISSSEY)
- Sharmin Bock, assistant district attorney in charge of special operations and policy development and head of the Human Exploitation and Trafficking Watch Unit at the Alameda County District Attorney's Office
More info:
- "Trafficked: A Youth Radio Investigation" : Slideshow and much more, at YouthRadio.org
- "Trafficked Teen Girls Describe Life In 'The Game'" : Part 1 of Youth Radio's two-part series, at NPR.org
- "Arresting Youth In Sex Trafficking Raises Debate" : Part 2 of Youth Radio's two-part series, at NPR.org
- About MISSSEY : at MISSSEY.org
We discuss the scope of underage sex trafficking with those working to stop it in Oakland, and with a Youth Radio reporter who has just concluded a six-month investigation of teen prostitution.
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