Child Prostitution in the Inland Empire

From the light hearted and silly to something utterly depressing and unbelievable.

The San Bernardino Sun has a story about child prostitution in the Inland Empire, most notably near the Ontario Airport.  Wes Hughes writes:

Ross said the District Attorney's Office has filed 91 prostitution cases in Juvenile Court since January 2005, but in one year Ontario police made more than 500 arrests with 300 of them 18 or younger and most of the 18-year-olds had been prostitutes for at least two years.

Ontario police have been treating the child prostitutes as victims rather than criminals, but that, too, has its problems. They can't legally hold young victims. They must be released to their families and most of them run away again to rejoin the pimps. It's a vicious circle.

Elsewhere in the article he reports that 75% of the prostitutes suffered some form of sexual abuse.  This is a classic reason why I think these sex predators get off way too easily.  Their abuse destroys these children and sends them down a lifetime path of trouble...be it future abusive relationships, dropping out of school, drug abuse, etc.

They literally ruin the lives of these kids and in months these perpetrators are free to turn the page and start anew while their victims suffer.

And why doesn't somebody start putting these "Johns" on a website or something.  Who knows what sort of diseases and problems they take back to their wives, girlfriends and family.