"Just Ask" Prevention Campaign Targets Teen Sex Trafficking
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News Release:/2014/LHC/
January 10, 2014



“Just Ask” Prevention Campaign
Targets Teen Sex Trafficking
Timing Coincides with Human Trafficking Awareness Day, Jan. 11

Officials from the Fairfax County Police, public schools, Office for Women & Domestic and Sexual Violence Services, and the Northern Virginia community gathered today to kick off a new education and prevention campaign on the topic of teen sex trafficking. Defined as “the act of manipulating or forcing anyone under the age of 18 to engage in a sex act in exchange for anything of value (money, drugs, shelter, food, clothes, etc.),” police identify an average of two new potential victims per week.

Many people believe teen sex trafficking only happens to runaways or in other more urban settings. But, it is on the rise across Northern Virginia and teens are now being targeted in public venues; bus stops, walking down the street, parties, shopping malls, through social media outlets, and more. Sex traffickers do not discriminate; they recruit victims across ethnic, economic and gender strata. Most teens are unaware they are being drawn in and often don’t recognize the signs of manipulation until it is too late. Traffickers are not just gang members or “criminals”; they may be business professionals, family members, students and teens they know. The trafficker may not be a stranger; rather it may be a friend or acquaintance from the classroom.

The "Just Ask" Prevention Project is a new public awareness campaign addressing the increasing prevalence of Teen Sex Trafficking in the region. A unique collaborative, the goal of the effort is to inspire residents to get involved with prevention and encourage them to learn more about spotting and reporting manipulative recruiters. It was produced by Hidden Brook Communications in Great Falls.

The campaign incorporates age-appropriate powerful illustrative new videos into the Fairfax County Public School Health & P.E. Family Life Education curriculum. An interactive website goes live Monday, January 13, JustAskVA.org, along with a Just Ask Facebook page. There will also be cadre of posters for buses, schools, and other locations. Schools will create a plastic bracelet awareness campaign.

Additionally, the campaign partners with the Office for Women & Domestic and Sexual Violence Services who will fund several prevention and education programs such as a training event on February 5-6 for counseling professionals and February10 for shelter and residential program providers. Their goal is to better prepare personnel on the front lines to respond to human trafficking victims and survivors.

Parents, family, teachers and friends will learn how to recognize the signs and symptoms of teen sex trafficking situations and be urged to report suspicious activities to the FCPD Human Trafficking Unit .
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Can they still sell their used panties?

So how much do you think the pimps make every time a girl turns tricks?

Wonder what FX County motel she's turning 10 tricks at?

eesh Wrote:
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> So how much do you think the pimps make every time
> a girl turns tricks?

If the john is paying $150-$200 I imagine pimpy is getting 75%?

At least the women get something, which is more than they got when daddy was raping them.

That last pic is classic.

If parents don't notice that their daughter is being abused and spending time with pimps, then they shouldn't be parents.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/12/2014 10:34AM by eesh.

Some girls at my school started their own sex business. They ran it themselves. I was a pimp but they onely paid me <10%. Didn't usually use motels except the Dulles Marriott and last summer for 3 days at a hotel downtown where we almost got kicked out. I heard another group was using the Marriott after their prom when someone proposinted them and that started using that hotel 4 more times. Those girls didnt have a pimp just two guys that were friends of them.

pimp Wrote:
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> Some girls at my school started their own sex
> business. They ran it themselves. I was a pimp
> but they onely paid me <10%. Didn't usually use
> motels except the Dulles Marriott and last summer
> for 3 days at a hotel downtown where we almost got
> kicked out. I heard another group was using the
> Marriott after their prom when someone proposinted
> them and that started using that hotel 4 more
> times. Those girls didnt have a pimp just two
> guys that were friends of them.

Any pics? Phone numbers?

Stabitha Wrote:
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> pimp Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Some girls at my school started their own sex
> > business. They ran it themselves. I was a
> pimp
> > but they onely paid me <10%. Didn't usually
> use
> > motels except the Dulles Marriott and last
> summer
> > for 3 days at a hotel downtown where we almost
> got
> > kicked out. I heard another group was using
> the
> > Marriott after their prom when someone
> proposinted
> > them and that started using that hotel 4 more
> > times. Those girls didnt have a pimp just two
> > guys that were friends of them.
>
> Any pics? Phone numbers?

They're too old for you Stabitha, they're probably 15 or 16 you fucking perv.

Study: Shelters for sex trafficking victims absent in Virginia
Domestic abuse sex trafficking shelters not interchangeable, says local official
http://www.fairfaxtimes.com/article/20140117/NEWS/140119368/1076/inova-creates-way-for-seniors-to-stay-in-their-homes/Study:-Shelters-for-sex-trafficking-victims-absent-in-Virginia&template=fairfaxTimes

Residential programs for victims of sex trafficking are sorely lacking in Virginia, according to a national survey and local officials.

A national survey of residential programs for victims of sex trafficking was recently undertaken by the Criminal Justice Information Authority of Illinois. Results of the national report, published in October, show that out of the 682 residential beds dedicated to victims of sex trafficking in 33 residential programs nationwide, only six of those beds are available in Washington, D.C., and none are in Virginia.

According to the authority, domestic sex trafficking is a violation of human rights and considered to be a form of modern day slavery. It is recognized as a growing issue in the U.S.; however, the full extent of trafficking remains unknown. Traffickers and victims often avoid detection since much of the criminal activity is hidden and victims rarely seek help or report their situation to police.

What constitutes trafficking is also often misunderstood.

Trafficking victims do not have to be foreign-born or transported across borders; in fact, many are born in the U.S. and are never moved from their recruitment city. Victims of trafficking often suffer from serious physical and psychological problems.

“Sex trafficking victims have very specific physical and psychological needs,” said Chris Davies, director of counseling services for the Fairfax County Department of Family Services’ Office for Women & Domestic and Sexual Violence Services. “Many times they do not see themselves as victims because the level of their manipulation is so high.” According to Davies, historically there have always been a limited number of shelters and services available for these victims, and even fewer with the capacity to appropriately treat the severity of sex trafficking victims’ problems.

“There is a shortage of shelter space throughout the U.S. and especially in Virginia. What often happens is that sex trafficking victims are sent to domestic abuse shelters, but the needs of domestic violence survivors are very different than those of sex trafficking victims, and they are not always compatible.”

In addition, shelter space strictly for domestic abuse survivors is also at a premium in Fairfax County.

Every month, Fairfax County Police receive nearly 1,000 domestic calls for service and on average make more than 160 related arrests, according to a 2013 annual report prepared for the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors by the Domestic Violence Prevention, Policy & Coordinating Council.

According to the 20-page report, domestic violence hotlines countywide receive almost 260 calls each month. Also on average each month, 65 domestic violence victims request family abuse protective orders, and 14 families escape to emergency domestic violence shelters.

Sex trafficking is also on the rise in Fairfax County, creating an even greater demand for dedicated shelter space. Since 2010, the commonwealth has obtained 50 human trafficking-related prosecutions and identified 375 victims. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria has also prosecuted 24 federal cases against 50 defendants since 2011.

In October, The Fairfax County Police Department received a $1 million grant from the U.S. Dept. of Justice to be able to better battle the growing trend of human trafficking in the county. Half the award, $500,000, will enable the police department to have one full-time detective and one crime analyst dedicated to the issue.

The other half of the award went to the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Polaris Project, which provides services to human trafficking victims. Polaris is the organization outlined by the Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority national survey as providing six residential beds for the entire Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.

“Polaris does a great job,” said Davies, “But they generally serve a different population in D.C. We could really use a sex-trafficking victim residential program right here in Northern Virginia.”