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Guided walking tour — Historic downtown buildings, an old brothel and “Underground Port Angeles.” Chamber of Commerce, 121 E. Railroad Ave., 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets $12 adults, $10 senior citizens and students, $6 ages 6 to 12, children younger than 6 admitted free. For reservations, phone 360-452-2363, ext. 0.
Art classes in oil, acrylic and pastel — Friday mornings, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.. $20 per class. Beginners to intermediate. Instructor teaches to the level of the student. For information and directions, phone Susan at 360-457-6994 or 360-477-1024. ADA/wheelchair-accessible.
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Guided walking tour — Historic downtown buildings, an old brothel and “Underground Port Angeles.” Chamber of Commerce, 121 E. Railroad Ave., 10:30 a.m. and 2 p.m. Tickets $12 adults, $10 senior citizens and students, $6 ages 6 to 12, children younger than 6 admitted free. For reservations, phone 360-452-2363, ext. 0.

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JAN 27
LARCENY: A woman, living in the Meadowbrook Apartments, pawned a ring that her 3-year-old daughter took from a neighbor’s apartment.
FRAUD: Someone made five fraudulent charges on a debit card, totaling $649.60. The victim’s card is kept in a safe, and they don’t know how the number was obtained.
DRUNKENNESS: A man, who was passed out on the side of the road on Ashworth Ave. N., was intoxicated and unable to care for himself. He was transported to NW Hospital for detox.
FIREARM: Two handguns were found inside of an apartment, in the 20000 block of 15th Ave. N.E., where a DEA taskforce had served a warrant earlier in the week.
JAN 28
PROSTITUTION: Two people were involved in prostitution activity, near the Rodeway Inn on Aurora Ave. N.

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The biggest question looming over the legislative crackdown on escort ads is whether it would stand up to what Kline, who chairs the Judiciary Committee, called “inevitable litigation.” Legal issues involving protections for media advertising complicate the otherwise seemingly black and white issue of fighting child exploitation online.
Backpage’s parent company, Village Voice Media, has defended the site—which has been linked to the sexual exploitation of children—defending its escort ads as a First Amendment issue. (They make $20 million annually off the site.)
The mother of a young woman who was pimped out on Backpage.com offered a rejoinder to concerns about suppression of free speech at today’s hearing: “Whose voice are we protecting? Are we protecting the abuser? Are we protecting the buyer? Are we protecting the website that makes millions?” She added “I have a daughter that was convicted on prostitution charges at the age of 15. My entire family has been victimized.”

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CHARLES CORTES, Kent Reporter file photo
Venoy Overton faces an April 2 trial date in Kent for second-degree promoting prostitution.
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Overton, 23, of Seattle, posted bail June 30 after about two weeks in the county jail in Kent. He pleaded not guilty to the charge of second-degree promoting prostitution.
Kent Police began their investigation of Overton in May when undercover officers contacted an 18-year-old woman for prostitution activity on Pacific Highway South, a well-known area for prostitution in Kent. That woman told police that Overton had arranged for her to work the streets as a prostitute, according to charging papers.
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Overton reportedly told detectives he took the woman to the “track” (a term used for high areas of prostitution) because he knew he was going to get some money. He also told them he knew what he did was wrong and stated he screwed up.

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Residents of Georgetown—tucked between I-5 and the industrial area around the Duwamish River in the Seattle Police Department’s South Precinct—say they have felt ignored by police over the last few years.  The South Precinct has gone through three police captains in three years, and Georgetown residents say no one from SPD has shown up to one of their monthly community meetings to check in with the neighbors about problem-plagued motels, chopped-up bodies, or the recent uptick in property crimes.
Some neighbors complained about open prostitution and drug dealing—”we’ve seen one of the drug dealers sell to one of the sex offenders,” one man said—while one Georgetown resident told police thieves have been taking “anything metal that’s not bolted down” from homes in the neighborhood. That includes everything from planter boxes, to license plates, to the metal address numbers on the sides of houses, another Georgetown resident told PubliCola.

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Will she give other communities the opportunity to choose whether to keep the cameras or not? From The Herald: “Haugen said she’d fight against … requiring a vote before cameras can be used. ‘I don’t agree with that,’ she said.”
Initiatives are necessary when politicians take the ostrich approach, sticking their head in the sand hoping that ignoring the problem will make it go away. It doesn’t work that way (RE: Initiative 695).
The Herald has done a stellar job exposing the corruption this program breeds. The red-light camera company executives who impersonate local citizens to promote their product, the police officers who prostitute themselves to maintain the cameras’ cash flow, and the city councils that can’t objectively review the cameras’ failure because (when faced with internal emails) they’ve admitted they’re hooked on the money.

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Prosecutors allege the deaths were the result of a planned honour killing, staged to look like a car crash after Zainab allegedly took the car without permission.
Prosecutors claim Shafia planned the murders to cleanse the shame he felt from the conduct of his daughters, who were wearing revealing clothes and secretly dating men. Zainab had a failed marriage to a young man who was not approved by the family. The trial also heard that Rona Mohammad wanted a divorce from Shafia and was supportive of the daughters who were dating.
Jurors heard secret police recordings made after the deaths in which Shafia curses his dead children, calling them “whores,” “prostitutes,” and “filthy, rotten children” who were “treacherous” and who betrayed him. In one wiretap, he says: “May the devil sh– on their graves.”

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Hee Jay Cho, 40, is accused of helping recruit Korean women to work as prostitutes in a nightclub near Seattle.

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A federal grand jury has indicted eight people suspected of operating a human-trafficking ring for interstate prostitution from a Korean nightclub in Federal Way.

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The average age of entrance for girls into prostitution is 12 to 14 years, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. This is before the age that a girl can even give meaningful consent. The pimps’ sexual exploitation of these minors automatically qualifies as human trafficking.
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Humphris also believes that many “johns” do not know how young some of the girls on the streets are or that they’re being forced to do things against their will, under the control of a pimp. “I feel like if that was more widely known, someone with a conscience might try to police themselves a little,” says Humphris.
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“We rode along with the central vice unit and they get that this is human trafficking, they get that these girls are coerced, and they work so hard to get girls out – they work so hard to be able to prosecute the pimp to get them off the street,” says Lauterbach.

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