Seattle Escorts: Is DeShawn "Cash Money" Clark What Human Trafficking Looks Like?
Is DeShawn “Cash Money” Clark What Human Trafficking Looks Like?
Wednesday, Nov. 25 2009 @ 12:26PM
Getty ImagesA brothel bust in China fits the rhetoric around human traffickingYes, the oddly-named DeShawn “Cash Money” Clark seems to have been a thoroughly unpleasant character. He pimped out young women, including his ex-girlfriend, using violence and false promises of love. It’s, unfortunately, an old story. That’s why it’s so strange that he was convicted yesterday of what sounds like an exotic, new-fangled crime: human trafficking.
Clark argues that the state’s six-year-old trafficking law was not meant for people like him, according to the Seattle P-I. He’s got a point. Technically, the law addresses people who force others into involuntary servitude, and that appears to include him. But the anti-trafficking movement arose in the last decade to fight a new brand of human smugglers who take people across national borders and hold them, like prisoners, in sweatshops and brothels. “Modern-day slavery,” it is dubbed by the interesting coalition of religious conservatives and feminists who crusade against it.
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