Nevada Brothel
Nevada Historical Marker 54
Reform Gulch, or Frogtown, was located a mile south of the city. Here, ladies of the night set up for business in tents. One abandoned brothel was used for a school house. No movement was ever started to build a church. ... [Read More]
Official State of Nevada Website - In the News
Amusement tax may hit brothels ... Brothel owners willing to be part of entertainment tax ... EDITORIAL: Brothel ad battle brewing? ... [Read More]
United States Libraries in South Africa: Topics--Social Affairs
In the third installment of "In the Footsteps of Tocqueville" Levy visits death row and a brothel in Nevada; the Grand Canyon; Salt Lake City; the Air Force Academy; Sun City, Arizona; and the Dallas book depository where President Kennedy was shot, among other places and events. He also spends time with the Kerry campaign; a class studying Tocqueville; and a pilot who lectures on creationism; and attends the rainy opening of the Clinton Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. As in the previous articles, Levy offers contrasts between Europe and the United States (in their social-welfare systems, for example), debunks some commonly-held European views ("The Myth of the American Empire"), and looks to Tocqueville for insight ("Americans have even less inclination for war than for politics"). ... [Read More]
Implementation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act
Important evidence filmed during a brothel intervention of ownership of a brothel and the bank passbook for the brothel account were ''lost'' by the police. This was discovered when IJM lawyers met with the prosecutor to discuss case progress and the prosecutor explained that he cannot determine brothel ownership. IJM later learned that the brothel is police owned. ... Well, what does there actually look like in these countries? Well, attached to my written statement is just a number of scenarios that we have been able to document ourselves. The first one is an open market for girls from the ages of 8 to 13 where our investigators were purchasing girls for $1 for sex, $5 for the night, or $30 to buy the girls outright. This was not hard to find. And yet we presented this information to the Minister of Justice three times with all of the video over 6 months. No effort at all to shut down the brothels that are open to the public and clearly available for prosecution. Apparently, the police official owns a series of brothels in this area, including this one. ... [Read More]
Global Trends in Trafficking and the "Trafficking in Persons Report"
Of course, most of what we have learned has come from the victims of sex trafficking themselves—the hundreds upon hundreds of individual women and girls whom we have come to know by name around the world. The hundreds of women and children who have been abducted, assaulted, bought and sold, tortured and raped as part of a moneymaking enterprise. Everything useful that we have learned has emerged from entering into the nightmare experience of girls like Balamani. We first came to know Balamani because another girl we had rescued from a brothel took us back on a follow-up raid to show us the underground dungeon in which other young trafficking victims were being hidden. Balamani was about 17-years-old when she was lured from her rural village in South Asia with promises of a job working as a domestic servant or at a medical center in the city. A local trafficker won her trust and diverted her to a larger city on the other side of the country where she was sol ... [Read More]
Utah History To Go - Silver
Given the Mormon preoccupation with building a stable society based on agriculture, the development of mining in Utah remained, for the most part, in non-Mormon hands, but there were exceptions. One of the best known mine owners was "Uncle" Jesse Knight, an active Mormon with extensive holdings in the Tintic Mining District. His company town, Knightsville, was probably the only saloon-free, brothel-free, mining town in the United States. Old-timers said that no man prayed more and met with more success than Knight. "He prayed for silver and gold in them thar hills, and there was silver and gold, and sure enough, he struck it," one man said. In time, as the mining industry developed, more and more Mormons went to work in the mines. Still, non-Mormons predominated. ... [Read More]
Trafficking in Persons: A Global Review
By effective, I mean are girls like Jar being rescued from the brothels? Are the traffickers, brothel keepers, and sex tourists who brutalize girls like her being put in jail? Are other girls like Jar being prevented from entering the brothels and are girls like Jar being given the protection and rehabilitative services they need to live their restored life? ... 1) The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (''TVPA'') can be effective (and, in fact, is only effective) when the State Department, through the U.S. Embassy, is willing and equipped to make an objective assessment of a country's efforts to combat trafficking. How can we measure whether the TVPA is effective? The TVPA is effective when women and children who were being serially raped in a brothel one day are free the next. The TVPA is effective when traffickers and brothel keepers, and pimps who profit from serial rape are arrested, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced. These convictions and sentences not only prevent the ... [Read More]
The U.N. and the Sex Slave Trade in Bosnia: Isolated Case or Larger Problem in the U.N. System?
In May 2001 the Hotline appealed against the Israeli police on behalf of four women. Three of the women stated that the policeman who arrested them had been a client at the brothel one day before their arrest while the policeman who investigated them at the police station had been a client at the brothel that very morning. The forth woman said that she was scared of testifying because the pimp held close relations with policemen who used to visit the brothel, and that three women who had been detained by the police at the time she was in brothel were returned the same day to the brothel, indicating again in her eyes, police cooperation with the pimp. Even when an investigation was carried out into the matter, after the appeal had been presented by the Hotline, to the best of our knowledge the suspicions relating to police involvement were not investigated. ... [Read More]
Foreign Government Complicity in Human Trafficking: A Review of the State Department's "2002 Trafficking in Persons Report"
Nita was not so lucky. Also trafficked from Eastern Nepal, from an extremely poor family in a town called Melumchi, Nita was one of the first girls I interviewed in my studies. Nita refused to cooperate with her brothel owners. She received particularly harsh treatment—torture of her genitals, burning, stomping on her chest, being whipped all over until passing out. But she never gave in, and was eventually sold and re-sold to eight separate brothels. ''I never respected my customers and never cooperated with them,'' she told me. Nita went on to say, ''In September 1992, I got sick and it took a long time to get recovered. And the sickness repeated in December too. The second time the brothel doctor suspected I was HIV positive and informed the brothel owner. They took me to hospital to get a blood test and I was found HIV positive. After getting this message the brothel owner sent me back home. I refused to leave the brothel, as I had nowhere to go. I had ... [Read More]
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE: U.S. Attorney: District of New Jersey
08-07-2003 -- NEWARK - Two Mexican nationals were sentenced today to 210 months in prison for luring four teenage Mexican girls to the United States and holding them captive as prostitutes at a brothel they ran in Plainfield, N.J., Attorney General John Ashcroft and U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced. Contacts: Michael Drewniak, NJUSAO Public Affairs Officer, 973-645-2888; Jorge Martinez, DOJ Press Officer, 202-514-2008. ... [Read More]
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