Washington DC Massage Parlors: National safety net: A strike against sex trafficking
Written on June 25, 2010 – 6:24 am | by rubmedownthere
Hawaii is one of six states that do not have any laws against human trafficking, and each one of them — Massachusetts, Ohio, South Dakota, West Virginia and Wyoming — is a hole in what should be a national safety net. Without strong and vigorously enforced statutes, these states not only risk becoming unintended havens for traffickers, but when confronted with the crime they are more likely to rely on outdated prostitution laws instead of up-to-date laws regarding modern slavery. The Aloha State, however, is poised to leave this small club of outliers and become the 45th state to enact anti-trafficking legislation; we encourage Gov. Linda Lingle to sign the legislation now sitting on her desk.
The bill is not perfect; it focuses solely on sex trafficking, making it a felony, and does not address the thriving business of trafficking in slave labor, which in the U.S. is even more common. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, hundreds of thousands of people are at any given moment being forced or misled into working in hotels, agricultural fields and janitorial services in addition to brothels, strip clubs, massage parlors and other commercial sex outlets.
See the full article from “Daily Camera”