The Dominican Republic has added an amendment to its constitution that prohibits human trafficking in all its forms. Which is really such a step up from other countries’ proposed “Make Sex Trafficking Mandatory” amendments.
23 April 2009
12 March 2009
Brooklyn Assemblyman Felix Ortiz Asks For Strip Club Tax To Help Victim Of Human Trafficking
By Alex Alvarez at 2:29 PM.
Brooklyn Assemblyman Felix Ortiz is proposing a hefty $10 tax for patrons of strip bars. To be doled out in singles. Ortiz says the revenue would help victims of sex trafficking… somehow.
The tax applies to any establishment that serves food and drink and features nude or partially nude dancers. So, if Hooters waitresses perform the electric slide [...]
13 January 2009
Bitter Barter: California Man Sells Daughter For Beer, Meat
By Alex Alvarez at 1:55 PM.
Narrowly beating out Luis Miguel for Father of the Year, a man in Greenfield, California has been arrested after selling his 14-year-old daughter into marriage (Is that the official term for sexual slavery now?) in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat. We hope it was anything but olive loaf, [...]
