Somebody's Daughter The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them

Name: Somebody's Daughter The Hidden Story of America's Prostituted Children and the Battle to Save Them
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ISBN: 9781613748084

ISBN-10: 1613748086

ISBN-13: 9781613748084

Edition: 2013

Authors: Julian Sher

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Shocking and gritty, this collection contains firsthand accounts of terror and abuse from prostituted children—and the law enforcement officers and community activists working to save them. While detailing the necessity for substantive legal and cultural change on the national level in regard to prostitution, pimps, and children’s rights, this book also provides encouraging stories of new, pioneering law enforcement initiatives and child-recovery strategies reaping positive results in urban areas inundated with children victimized by sexual exploitation and violence, such as Las Vegas, Atlantic City, New York City, Phoenix, and Dallas. This updated paperback edition includes a new,…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Author's Note


Prologue: What Happens in Vegas…



Innocence Lost



The Girl from Jersey



High-Risk Victims



Maria's Dilemma



The Wealth of Knowledge



Confronting the Pimps



Taking on Pimp Culture



"He Was Untouchable"



Takedown



"She's Not Your Ho Anymore"



"Like Attacking the Mafia"



In the Dead of the Night



"Judge People by Courage"



"Girls Are Not for Sale"



Courtroom 18



No Safe Haven



Unequal Laws



Finding Their Own Voice



Making the Invisible Visible


Epilogue: "Caught in Between Two Worlds"


Afterword


Acknowledgments


Resources For Help


Sources


Index


About the Author