Jun6
In Plain Sight…
Category Archives: Pimp
Jun2
Top 3 Types of Sex Trafficking
- Domestic Pimp (“control trafficking”)
- Asain Massage Parlor ( massage parlor which includes sexual benefits)
- Latino Residential Brothels (home/location where several females live, often within a normal residential community. Men come to the brothel to pay for sex)
**However, Gang Pimping is climbing the ladder quickly!
Jun2
The Truth Isn’t Sexy
May10
There Are Two Main Categories Of Pimps
Romeo Pimp
- Compliments
- Gifts
- Declares his love
- “Pretty Woman” life
- modeling
Gorilla Pimp
- Force (physically/emotionaly abusive)
- Kidnapping
- Usually someone they know
- Missing Children
- Drugs/Alcohol
The characteristics of these two types of Pimps are quite opposite, however, both are effective under certain circumstances. Both of these Pimps “groom” their prospective “victims” by using various methods. Regardless of the method, it is important to be aware of the “signs” for the sake of prevention.
Apr25
Lyon’s Club, Sponsors, HEALTH & SAFETY FAIRE
For those in the Turlock area this Saturday. Another opportunity to learn and find out how you can get involved!
Stop by the HUMAN TRAFFICIKING AWARENESS & PREVENTION booth at the Health and Safety Faire, Sat, April 28, 2012 from 9am-1pm, at the Turlock Covenant Church in Turlock, . “Without Permission” will be providing the human trafficking educational materials for this Event. The Event is sponsored by the 210 Lyon’s Club.
Apr21
She’s my Hero…
Diane Smith, Volunteer and Debbie Johnson, Director of WITHOUT PERMISSION Non-Profit Organization were recently part of a Seminar sponsored by MJC (Modesto Junior College) Human Sexuality Club.
Apr20
Questions To Ask Your Child or Student If You Think They May Be A Potential Victim Of Human Trafficking
The KEY for parents and teachers is to keep the lines of communication open and flowing! (Easier said than done, I know, especially when dealing with teenagers)
Some Questions to Ask?
Have you ever heard of Human Trafficking? Do you know what it is?
Do you know that it exists here in our community?
Have you heard anything about it in your Junior High or High School or College?
Have you heard of other girls getting “pimped” out?
Have you ever heard a friend’s boyfriend call her “wifey”? (This is a term many pimps call their girls)
Have you ever been approached by anyone who
Apr20
Everett Washington Mother Shares Tragic Loss to Fight Sex Trafficking
Mother shares story of daughter who vanished three years ago
By Eric Stevick, Herald Writer
She’s been told she’s living with ambiguous grief. That seems a perfect description to Sarah Collins, who has been stuck in limbo for the past three years.
She doesn’t know what happened to her daughter, who was so young she should have been enjoying her high school prom. Instead, her girl became a pawn caught in the brutal world of sex trafficking.
“There is no end to it,” said Collins, an articulate genetics researcher whose eyes can’t hide her sadness. “You always want to believe she is still alive. There are times you give up hope. It’s a back-and-forth thing.”
Kelsey Collins had turned 18 shortly before she left their south Everett condominium to catch a bus the day before Mother’s Day in 2009.
Kelsey Collins was off to visit her boyfriend the day. She didn’t take anything with her. She never came home.
Her boyfriend said she never arrived.
For weeks, her daughter’s cell phone would ring and go directly to voice mail as though it had been shut off.
Police suspect her disappearance is related to the dangerous double life the troubled teen had lived and vowed to leave.
Kelsey Collins was lured into prostitution when she was 16. Her testimony before a grand jury led to a sex trafficking indictment against a man who allegedly drove her from Seattle to Portland to peddle sex, even though she was a minor. Kelsey Collins had convinced her mom she was going to Olympia for the weekend to hang out with a friend.
When Kelsey Collins vanished, a federal case against her alleged former pimp fell apart before it got to trial.
Even so, the man she testified against was later convicted of sex trafficking charges involving a 15-year-old girl. Donnico T. Johnson was sentenced to nearly 15 years in federal prison.
These days, Sarah Collins talks to different groups about the largely invisible industry of sex trafficking that ensnares thousands of American teens each year. She’s planning to do so as a member of a Snohomish County League of Women Voters panel discussion scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Rosehill Community Center, 304 Lincoln Way, Mukilteo.
Sarah Collins senses that many people assume such an insidious trade couldn’t infiltrate their community. She wants them to know it can and does.
“I am a real person,” she said. “I lost my daughter.”
Some teen sex trafficking victims end up in counseling at the Providence Intervention Center for Assault and Abuse in Everett.
“Many of them look like every-day teenagers, and come from various socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds,” said Azra Grudic, who works with victims through the intervention center.
Local experts say the prevalence of the problem is difficult to quantify, but, make no mistake, it is real.
“The biggest challenge continues to be raising awareness that this is happening in our community and to our children on a daily basis,” Grudic said.
Paula Newman-Skomski is a nurse practitioner and forensic nurse examiner at the center who encounters teens caught in the sex industry.
“They are being trafficked up and down the I-5 corridor,” she said.
Sarah Collins fears her daughter might be dead or selling herself in “some place so awful you can’t think about it.”
Sometimes, she dreams her daughter is found, is brought home and is OK.
It’s a pleasant dream but one she concedes is unlikely.
Doug Justus is a retired detective sergeant with the Portland Police Department. He was leading a human trafficking unit when a police report about Kelsey Collins landed on his desk.
He got to know the teen and her mom.
The case still costs him sleep.
“When you broke down all of her toughness, she was just a kid, just a normal kid who unfortunately was involved in some stuff that’s hard to even talk about,” Justus said.
Kelsey Collins was an easy target for sex traffickers, he said.
“They pick these kids who are easy to manipulate,” Justus said. “They tend to have low self-esteem, do poorly in school and are looking for a father figure. They play it like a professional psychiatrist.”
Kelsey Collins had a tough childhood beginning with birth defects that required surgeries.
Her stepfather was abusive and, by age 5, as a result of his abuse, she began to have seizures at night, her mom said.
One night, Sarah Collins gathered her children and took them away. She left everything behind. All she could think about was finding a safe place for her children.
They moved from the Midwest to Washington. The family changed their names and Social Security numbers.
Years later, her former husband was convicted of abusing two of Collins’ children during the years they lived together in the late 1990s. The man now is serving a 20-year sentence in prison, according to Michigan Department of Corrections records.
Kelsey Collins also had a learning disability. By her sophomore year, she was reading at only a fifth-grade level and had the math skills of a third-grader.
Sarah Collins worked long hours in the research lab to provide for her children.
Her daughter grew frustrated with school and began skipping classes. She later was arrested for theft and prostitution.
For all her daughter’s troubles, Sarah Collins continued to see the good in her.
“She had this amazing capacity for empathy,” she said.
When elderly neighbors needed help, Kelsey Collins would show up unprompted to lend a hand.
The day before she disappeared, Kelsey Collins helped her mom bring in the spring flowers — pansies, impatiens and snapdragons — for planting. That afternoon, as her mom took a nap, Kelsey helped plan Mother’s Day.
The following morning, Sarah Collins wasn’t celebrating. She was worrying about her missing daughter.
“I just had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach,” she said.
Since then, Sarah Collins has had many conversations with other moms of missing children in Washington, Oregon and Canada.
They tell similar stories. Often, their children lived at home and attended school while carrying on a second life in the sex trade.
Justus also hears the heart-breaking tales.
“It’s happening, but people bury their head in the sand and say, ‘This won’t happen here,'” he said.
Last month, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed several bills that add teeth to state laws aimed at preventing sex trafficking. Senate Bill 6251, for instance, bans advertising of escort services that exploit children and teens. Publishers of such material can now face felony prosecution.
Sarah Collins applauds the new laws.
She just hopes focus isn’t lost on those who have already disappeared.
“What have you done to find all these missing girls?” she asked. “Some we know are involved and others are suspected to be involved, but they are forgotten. The only people who remember them are their families and the people who knew them.”
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com
She doesn’t know what happened to her daughter, who was so young she should have been enjoying her high school prom. Instead, her girl became a pawn caught in the brutal world of sex trafficking.
“There is no end to it,” said Collins, an articulate genetics researcher whose eyes can’t hide her sadness. “You always want to believe she is still alive. There are times you give up hope. It’s a back-and-forth thing.”
Kelsey Collins had turned 18 shortly before she left their south Everett condominium to catch a bus the day before Mother’s Day in 2009.
Kelsey Collins was off to visit her boyfriend the day. She didn’t take anything with her. She never came home.
Her boyfriend said she never arrived.
For weeks, her daughter’s cell phone would ring and go directly to voice mail as though it had been shut off.
Police suspect her disappearance is related to the dangerous double life the troubled teen had lived and vowed to leave.
Kelsey Collins was lured into prostitution when she was 16. Her testimony before a grand jury led to a sex trafficking indictment against a man who allegedly drove her from Seattle to Portland to peddle sex, even though she was a minor. Kelsey Collins had convinced her mom she was going to Olympia for the weekend to hang out with a friend.
When Kelsey Collins vanished, a federal case against her alleged former pimp fell apart before it got to trial.
Even so, the man she testified against was later convicted of sex trafficking charges involving a 15-year-old girl. Donnico T. Johnson was sentenced to nearly 15 years in federal prison.
These days, Sarah Collins talks to different groups about the largely invisible industry of sex trafficking that ensnares thousands of American teens each year. She’s planning to do so as a member of a Snohomish County League of Women Voters panel discussion scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Thursday at the Rosehill Community Center, 304 Lincoln Way, Mukilteo.
Sarah Collins senses that many people assume such an insidious trade couldn’t infiltrate their community. She wants them to know it can and does.
“I am a real person,” she said. “I lost my daughter.”
Some teen sex trafficking victims end up in counseling at the Providence Intervention Center for Assault and Abuse in Everett.
“Many of them look like every-day teenagers, and come from various socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds,” said Azra Grudic, who works with victims through the intervention center.
Local experts say the prevalence of the problem is difficult to quantify, but, make no mistake, it is real.
“The biggest challenge continues to be raising awareness that this is happening in our community and to our children on a daily basis,” Grudic said.
Paula Newman-Skomski is a nurse practitioner and forensic nurse examiner at the center who encounters teens caught in the sex industry.
“They are being trafficked up and down the I-5 corridor,” she said.
Sarah Collins fears her daughter might be dead or selling herself in “some place so awful you can’t think about it.”
Sometimes, she dreams her daughter is found, is brought home and is OK.
It’s a pleasant dream but one she concedes is unlikely.
Doug Justus is a retired detective sergeant with the Portland Police Department. He was leading a human trafficking unit when a police report about Kelsey Collins landed on his desk.
He got to know the teen and her mom.
The case still costs him sleep.
“When you broke down all of her toughness, she was just a kid, just a normal kid who unfortunately was involved in some stuff that’s hard to even talk about,” Justus said.
Kelsey Collins was an easy target for sex traffickers, he said.
“They pick these kids who are easy to manipulate,” Justus said. “They tend to have low self-esteem, do poorly in school and are looking for a father figure. They play it like a professional psychiatrist.”
Kelsey Collins had a tough childhood beginning with birth defects that required surgeries.
Her stepfather was abusive and, by age 5, as a result of his abuse, she began to have seizures at night, her mom said.
One night, Sarah Collins gathered her children and took them away. She left everything behind. All she could think about was finding a safe place for her children.
They moved from the Midwest to Washington. The family changed their names and Social Security numbers.
Years later, her former husband was convicted of abusing two of Collins’ children during the years they lived together in the late 1990s. The man now is serving a 20-year sentence in prison, according to Michigan Department of Corrections records.
Kelsey Collins also had a learning disability. By her sophomore year, she was reading at only a fifth-grade level and had the math skills of a third-grader.
Sarah Collins worked long hours in the research lab to provide for her children.
Her daughter grew frustrated with school and began skipping classes. She later was arrested for theft and prostitution.
For all her daughter’s troubles, Sarah Collins continued to see the good in her.
“She had this amazing capacity for empathy,” she said.
When elderly neighbors needed help, Kelsey Collins would show up unprompted to lend a hand.
The day before she disappeared, Kelsey Collins helped her mom bring in the spring flowers — pansies, impatiens and snapdragons — for planting. That afternoon, as her mom took a nap, Kelsey helped plan Mother’s Day.
The following morning, Sarah Collins wasn’t celebrating. She was worrying about her missing daughter.
“I just had a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach,” she said.
Since then, Sarah Collins has had many conversations with other moms of missing children in Washington, Oregon and Canada.
They tell similar stories. Often, their children lived at home and attended school while carrying on a second life in the sex trade.
Justus also hears the heart-breaking tales.
“It’s happening, but people bury their head in the sand and say, ‘This won’t happen here,'” he said.
Last month, Gov. Chris Gregoire signed several bills that add teeth to state laws aimed at preventing sex trafficking. Senate Bill 6251, for instance, bans advertising of escort services that exploit children and teens. Publishers of such material can now face felony prosecution.
Sarah Collins applauds the new laws.
She just hopes focus isn’t lost on those who have already disappeared.
“What have you done to find all these missing girls?” she asked. “Some we know are involved and others are suspected to be involved, but they are forgotten. The only people who remember them are their families and the people who knew them.”
Eric Stevick: 425-339-3446, stevick@heraldnet.com
Apr19
Det. Christopher Baughman’s Book, OFF THE STREET
Chris was the Guest Speaker at a recent seminar held by the Stanislaus County Board of Education and Non-Profit Organization, WITHOUT PERMISSION in Modesto ,CA. Chris is the head of a cutting edge vice group in Las Vegas called P.I.T. (Pandering Investigagtive Team) He came to educate the Community, Teachers, and Law Enforcement on Human Trafficking in the Central Valley. Chris’ Book is a fast paced read chronicling a “key” Human Trafficking Case in Las Vegas.
Apr18
Come Hear About Human Trafficing at Modesto Junior College at the Human Sexuality Club
WITHOUT PERMISSIONS, Debbie Johnson, Director of the local Non-Profit Organization, dedicated to the RESCUE, and RESTORATION of Human Trafficking Victims, will be speaking at MJC’s Human Sexuality Club on April 19th at 7pm. The meeting will be held on the East Campus in Room/Forum 110.
There will be an information/merchandise table set up in the back of the room for those that would like to get more information about WITHOUT PERMISSION and Human Trafficiking. Below is a link for more info:
http://virtual.mjc.edu/schortnerm/humantrafficking.htm
Hope to see you there! Come up to me and let me know you saw this on my blog! Thanks, Diane
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