Backpage.com Operators Appear On California Pimping Charges
The operators of an international website that advertises escort services say they'll challenge charges of trafficking prostitutes and pimping on First Amendment grounds.
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The operators of an international website that advertises escort services say they'll challenge charges of trafficking prostitutes and pimping on First Amendment grounds.
Carl Ferrer, 55, was arrested on a California warrant after arriving Thursday in Houston on a flight from Amsterdam.
Police on Thursday shut down what they say was a brothel operating inside a San Leandro residence.
An 18-year-old Oakland man has been charged with rape and human trafficking for allegedly holding a 13-year-old girl as a prisoner for a month while sexually assaulting her and forcing her to work as a prostitute.
Five people were arrested Friday in an undercover operation at a suspected brothel in San Bruno, a police spokesman said.
Governor Jerry Brown announced Monday he signed SB1322 to ban police from charging people under the age of 18 with prostitution.
An Alameda County Social Services' assessment center in Hayward - where sex-trafficking victims are first taken to safety - are being used by pimps to recruit other victims.
Activists and relatives of a teenage woman at the center of a San Francisco Bay Area police sex scandal say they want to know if any of the more than two dozen law enforcement officials implicated earlier this year will face criminal charges.
An Oakland woman testified that 3 men kidnapped, raped and tortured her after she told them she didn't want to work as a prostitute for them.
Sex workers are fighting to do away with parts of a California bill that they say would give law enforcement officers discretion over whether sex workers are arrested or instead referred to social services, and could put sex workers at risk of police exploitation.
A man and woman suspected of kidnapping four young girls were in court in Oakland Friday, facing human trafficking charges.
Oakland police said Thursday that they believe the kidnapping of a 14-year-old girl on Wednesday is connected to human sex trafficking and that they've arrested a second suspect in connection with the case.
Police are investigating a report of a kidnapping in North Oakland Wednesday morning as possibly connected to human trafficking and forced prostitution, a police spokeswoman said.
More than 100,000 children nationwide are victims of sex trafficking. In 2014, close to 1,000 cases of human trafficking were reported in California alone.
Federal prosecutors say evidence showed that Michael Lindsay frequently traveled from San Francisco to the Philippines to have sex with a 13-year-old girl.
Two suspects were arrested in Emeryville on Wednesday in connection with multiple crimes related to a 15-year-old girl from Pleasant Hill who went missing late last month.
Police arrested two people on suspicion of prostitution and closed two San Bruno massage parlors during a five-month long enforcement operation, police said Friday.
Fourteen men were arrested Friday and Saturday after Fairfield police conducted a prostitution solicitation operation in Fairfield.
A San Francisco man accused of forcing two teenage girls into prostitution has been convicted of multiple felonies and faces a potential sentence of 150 years to life in prison.
Three days before the Nevada caucus, Hillary Clinton is getting a campaign assist from some unlikely volunteers: legal sex workers who call themselves "Hookers for Hillary."
For sex workers, renting a room on Airbnb can be a lot safer than being outdoors, and a lot cheaper than a hotel, and one worker calls the home-sharing service a boon to her industry.
Dozens of men were arrested or cited for soliciting prostitution in Santa Clara County in the weeks leading up to the Super Bowl.
The latest pre-Super Bowl arrest for prostitution in the South Bay was made during an anti-human trafficking operation in Millbrae Thursday .
Police and sheriff's officials worked together Wednesday night in San Rafael in a joint effort to curb prostitution in the city, police announced Friday.
For the first time in its efforts to crack down on sex trafficking during the Super Bowl, the FBI will try to reach out to women and girls selling sex in the run-up to the game to give them a way out and get them to turn against their traffickers.
