Child Prostitution the Biggest Curse
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Teen suicide spurs war on child prostitution
Wed Nov 28,2007 8: 51am EST
By Mickey Goodman
ATLANTA (Reuters) - At the age of 15, Samantha Walker was lured into prostitution on the streets of Toledo, Ohio, then taken against her will to Atlanta.
What makes her story different from thousands of others is that she testified against one of the men who paid for sex with her, helping to send him to prison.
But just weeks after the trial she took an overdose of drugs she was taking for depression and died at the age of 18.
More than 300,000 children are being sexually exploited in the United States, according to a study by the University of Pennsylvania.
Many of them end up in Atlanta, which authorities say has become a hub for prostitution in part because its busy airport makes it a destination for men seeking sex.
Where in the past pimps advertised the girls who worked for them on the walls of men's rest rooms or on street corners, these days they use online bulletin boards like craigslist (http: //www.craigslist.org/) .
Customers set up liaisons after seeing girls on the sites, and then pay the girl or the pimp directly on the street, according to the Atlanta Police Vice Department.
Solomon Gort, a married man with two children, a white-collar job and a home in Atlanta's suburbs, offered Walker's pimp $50 for oral sex with her in June 2004. Continued...
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Child prostitution the biggest curse
A short cut ride
life cut short
to the Maker in a hearse
Ohio Atlanta in the heart of America
Wounds that will heal
Solace reimburse
But in India my homeland
Child prostitution
Has gone from bad to worse
Little girls coerced
Solicited by
Their parents to foreigners
In Goa Pushkar Manali
A scene every night they rehearse
Wanton sensuous and perverse
That as tear drops of innocence
On the soul of humanity
Weep and immerse
Wounds inflicted on
Tender bodies
That only time and tide can nurse
As a cobbled road all over the world
Little vulnerable children
Lost in the wilderness have to traverse
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