CBS: Garfield Ridge residents complain about Cicero Avenue prostitution
[URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/garfield-ridge-residents-say-cicero-avenue-prostitution-has-crossed-into-their-alleys-backyards/[/URL]
Residents of the city's Southwest Side near Midway International Airport are up in arms because of what they call an increase in sex trafficking.
The say they have reported it to police and the alderman, but the problem keeps getting worse.
"The girls are half-naked in the middle of Cicero Avenue," one woman said. "Doesn't anybody care?
As CBS 2's Marybel González reported Thursday night, the residents say sex workers and solicitors are seen walking up and down Cicero Avenue – and are even spilling into their alleys in neighborhoods. They say they have seen such activity happening literally in their backyards.
In neighborhood alleys just feet from homes, evidence of the activity was visible on the ground in the form of used contraceptives.
CBS Chicago: Inside a brothel raid with the Cook County Sheriff's police
[URL]https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/inside-a-brothel-raid-with-the-cook-county-sheriffs-police-and-their-efforts-to-help-sex-trafficking-victims/[/URL]
Just realized I must be a victim too! LOL
[QUOTE=Jayp80;6102226]The explanation I heard from some doc about the sex trade was that even if the girl isn't being "forced" into sex work, if she's doing it to feed her family or support a drug habit she's a victim of the sex industry because if she had more options she wouldn't have to do that kind of work. I mean you can make the same argument for a girl working fast-food but whatever.[/QUOTE]Well, I am not being "forced" to work my job but I am doing it to feed my family and support my habit of drinking and my habit of sex with different women. I must be a victim of "labor trafficking" and I hope one day Dart will swoop in with his army of social workers to help me and I hope my bosses get what is coming to them.
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