Ohio nuns tackle sex trade at Super Bowl

CLEVELAND - Nuns from Ohio are part of an effort to keep the Super Bowl from becoming a big event for the sex trade.

WKYC-TV reports members of the Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Cleveland have helped contact scores of hotels within a 50-mile radius of Indianapolis. The nuns have asked the hotels to be alert for possible sex trafficking and take steps to stop it. (See video report below).

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Congregation president Sister Nancy Conway says if one woman is saved at Sunday's Super Bowl, the work will be worth it.

Officials have said that about 1,000 American-born children are forced into the sex trade each year in Ohio alone.

[longtree-2009]

just leave the prostitutes alone. child sex should be stopped just as catholic pedophile priests and nuns. these nuns should clean up their own backyard, the catholic church, before complaining of others.

[Transatlantique]

This blurb ends with a sentence that is partially unrelated to the headline. Child sex trafficking is one thing, adult consensual prostitution is another.

[billpl-2009]

I'd like to know their definition of the word "forced"

Technically, "forcing" a woman into prostitution would be kidnap and rape which is a crime punishable by life in prison.

If so, the problem wouldn't be with the prostitution, but rather the inadequacies of the Ohio Police.

I doubt that's the case.

[oldabner]

If the nuns have their cool outfits in a knot over under age sex, that's a good thing - go get 'em girls. But, they should not interfere with the adult ho's trying to make a buck. Hey, it's Super bowl, let the boys party hard with the ho's if they choose.

[omded]

If two (or more) consenting adults enter into an agreement where one party pays the other money, and the receiver of the money participates in a s e x ual encounter in return for that money, the entire affair is between the concenting adults. It's none of our business. Those of us who chose not to participate in such activity should simply stay out of it.

I think almost all of us agree with the nuns that forced participation needs to stop, however, stopping everything, mutually consnsual and otherwise, is not the solution. The vast majority of participants are participating of their own free will. In fact, every year, hundreds of women voluntarily travel to the city where the Super bowl is held in search of "prostitution" business. It's money for the prostitute. It's pleasure for the customer. Let it be.

[oldabner]

Hey newmark3 - did you miss the part about consenting adults? Read, newmark3, read - it will help a moron like you.

[rwsmith29456]

Sure, no children and sex slavery is a crime, but if a woman has decided to hook on her own, no big deal.

[retiredgustav]

What are these nuns going to do beat the streetwalkers with a steal edge ruler?

[omded]

Steel edge rulers are too hard to find these days. I think they'll just make them recite rosaries now. Midway through your second rosary, you probably would prefer the steel edge ruler though. Hey, some of the customers would prefer the steel edge ruler too! They would just say "strike me sister! Now I don't need to spend my money! You're giving it to me for free! God bless you!"

[mecanik-2009]

I tip my hat to them. I hope they do some good because sex trafficking is a major problem in the United States. Anyone that steps in and stops even a little of it is a good thing. Good job girls!

[sweet_sue_ohio]

Good luck!

[Lerianis4]

Here is a better idea nuns.... butt the hell out and leave these women alone. If they really want to leave the sex trade, there are numerous ways for them to do so.

[KnowerseekerReturns]

Lerianis4 likes 'em young and helpless.

[Believerisme]

Lerianis4 - needs to wake-up...or, at least, keep opinions to thyself. If this is what you like to do then do it to yourself in the bathroom etc. Hope u r not having thoughts of an under age of 18 because, if so, you surely need to get help. Slavery isn't over one gender it is happening to boys and girls...keep in mind...children-who are innocent. If you are a boy, hope this didn't happen to you or similar. If so, sorry. Let's help those who are impressionable and not support such a thing as prostitution or slavery..there's more to life than that.