PHILLY PROSTITUTION SCANDAL - COPY OF LETTER I SENT CRAIG MCCOY TODAY
This is to Craig McCoy about http://articles.philly.com/2015-12-07/news/68812182_1_michael-eakin-supreme-court-emails I just came across this and wanted to thank you for the story. I also saw this today too http://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2016/03/05/Pennsylvania-Attorney-General-Kathleen-Kane-wants-outside-judge-to-preside-over-her-criminal-trial/stories/201603050110 In 1989 I was asked to come to Allentown to help sex trafficking victims in a program that was called the "Program for Female Offenders". We were highly effective. By 1990, we had cleared 2,000 prostitutes out of the womens' jail who never were arrested again despite all being heavy "repeat offenders". The hotline I founded in 1997 www.sexworkersanonymous.com was done so because our kind CAN'T call the police for help when trafficked.
Why? Because men like Eliot Spitzer are too busy covering their ass. Sure to up their numbers and look good for the press he'd throw a competitor's escort service under the bus but never ever the service he was using. Meaning anyone in that service who is being trafficked is just SOL when needing help. What are they going to do - go to the Salvation Army's homeless shelter when making $4000 an hour? Why would they need to run? Check out his violence against an escort recently and ask me that again and that's what we know about. When one of us is raped, beaten, stalked - we can't call the police either.
So when victims try going to the police they wind up like Margo Compton and her twin daughters - slaughtered. But I have a serious problem going on right now Craig I'm hoping your story might help me with - that's all this money for trafficking victims is going to the police. What are they doing with it? Throwing a few bucks to a local homeless shelter and making them look good in the press and then NOTHING.
Absolutely nothing. Then women who are in trafficking rings like those involving Chris Butler have nowhere to go for help but to someone like our program. Which was fine until 2003 when the TVRA of 2003 was passed by Randall Tobias - a man whose name appeared in Jeane Palfrey's Black Book. Since then everything in the trafficking field I can show you goes back to one of two sources - either the Catholic Church or Catherine Chon of Polaris who is also head of the HHS office that provides the grants for the trafficking programs, designs the trafficking trainings, and basically only has the police, social services, mental health, etc. doing one thing and one thing only - they are focusing on the lower level street junkies who use prostitution to support their habit.
They are putting them into section 8 housing, charging Medicaid a fortune, and slapping them on $1,000's of dollars in psychiatric medications monthly while putting them into research experiments they're getting more grants for. In the meantime, women like who are being trafficked in the DEA owned strip club in NJ can't call the police for help. Those involved in this stripping and porn scandal you wrote about can't call the police for help. The girls pimped by a NY cop who would drive them all the way to NJ to turn tricks for him can't call the police for help. The ONLY group they can call for help is US.
However, we're blacklisted from any of the grant money because we're not "faith based", nor do we work with clients who call their hotline. To further make sure they have complete control over this field they've now even created a "survivor board" to "advise on policy" to the White House. What they've done is cut off from receiving help anyone who is being trafficked who can't call the police for help because those harming them are people within the legal system - the cops, the judges, the prosecutors, etc.
I've heard the big fuss about Rep. Cory Bookman going to rescue three kids - but those were human trafficking kids forced to work on an egg farm - not 14 year olds forced into porn and stripping. No - when we get those calls and try to reach him, Loretta Lynch, Kamala Harris, Dianne Feinstein, or any of these others' claiming to be supporters of the field I created mind you (check the dates at www.hightechmadam.com to verify I'm the founder of this movement which didn't exist prior to 1984 when I put together the first safe house in Van Nuys I got busted over) I can't get anyone on the phone. The Program for Female Offenders fell apart when I left town to have my daughter in 1991. I've seen tried to get anyone who will listen to help me put the program back together because of the need and I hear nothing.
Your story explains something to me - the only group I've been able to even get to talk to me since 1991 was a group of methadone addicts in Philly. When I've asked to be incorporated into the program there working with prostitutes in Philly - I can't get a return phone call. That's like the drug court refusing to take Bill Wilson's call. The methadone addicts are street walkers on drugs. They don't have a pimp because all their money goes into drugs. Yet when I've tried to get their counselors to speak to me - I get nowhere. I've tried getting into where the victims are being preyed upon by the pimps such as the strippers, the escorts, and those in porn - and no one returns my calls. In my 30 years now of experience that means somewhere some man is covering up his dirty laundry that he doesn't want anyone to find out about.
Which is why I've been saying the only way to address this issue is decriminalization. Then I won't have these men more worried about their ass than protecting these women from these pimps who can't call the police and their only resource is us. Which again was fine until 2003 when suddenly we've being cut out of the system entirely by these offices afraid they're not going to get their grant money if they go up against Polaris' competitor. Only how are we a "competitor"? Polaris wants to have the only one getting help are female trafficking victims. Those who are sex workers, the LGBT, transgenders, and those who are Jewish, they act like they don't exist. In other words, they are denied any services. The result?
We're now seeing an HIV epidemic this country hasn't seen since the 1980's. Because while we help anyone from any part of th sex industry to exit - we don't only focus on one tiny segment. We also don't block them from going to doctors as the ACLU v. Catholic Bishops proved was happening for many years. No our outreach campaigns used to be going out with condoms and information on HIV education and prevention - and then saying "if you know anyone who needs help to leave - have them call us". Now, unless you want to throw a pimp under the bus - you're just SOL. Leaving out entirely women like Pennsylvania saw of the three women who testified about how great their pimps were to them.
Only I ask you - what else would they say knowing they're going to have to give visitation to the father of those children for the next 18 years one of the victims was pregnant with on the stand? So there was no way she'd piss him off knowing she's going to have to let him know where his child is for the next 18 years or she gets charged with kidnapping. What did they expect? But did they bring us in to serve as an expert witness? Oh hell no because then I'd be also talking to the women in the strip clubs and massage parlors and the porn sets these men in your piece don't want exposed to the light of day.
So thank you for this article. It's more ammunition in my letters to those above at the White House about why there has to be a SEPARATE program from that connected to our law enforcement, our legal system, etc., or the majority of these men and women needing help to leave when they can't do it anyone. Nor can we put this on a basis connected to grant money or we're going to see more cases like this coming to light. http://traffickingandprostitutionservices.blogspot.com/2016/03/just-like-we-predicted.html
Jody Williams
www.sexworkersanonymous.com
Why? Because men like Eliot Spitzer are too busy covering their ass. Sure to up their numbers and look good for the press he'd throw a competitor's escort service under the bus but never ever the service he was using. Meaning anyone in that service who is being trafficked is just SOL when needing help. What are they going to do - go to the Salvation Army's homeless shelter when making $4000 an hour? Why would they need to run? Check out his violence against an escort recently and ask me that again and that's what we know about. When one of us is raped, beaten, stalked - we can't call the police either.
So when victims try going to the police they wind up like Margo Compton and her twin daughters - slaughtered. But I have a serious problem going on right now Craig I'm hoping your story might help me with - that's all this money for trafficking victims is going to the police. What are they doing with it? Throwing a few bucks to a local homeless shelter and making them look good in the press and then NOTHING.
Absolutely nothing. Then women who are in trafficking rings like those involving Chris Butler have nowhere to go for help but to someone like our program. Which was fine until 2003 when the TVRA of 2003 was passed by Randall Tobias - a man whose name appeared in Jeane Palfrey's Black Book. Since then everything in the trafficking field I can show you goes back to one of two sources - either the Catholic Church or Catherine Chon of Polaris who is also head of the HHS office that provides the grants for the trafficking programs, designs the trafficking trainings, and basically only has the police, social services, mental health, etc. doing one thing and one thing only - they are focusing on the lower level street junkies who use prostitution to support their habit.
They are putting them into section 8 housing, charging Medicaid a fortune, and slapping them on $1,000's of dollars in psychiatric medications monthly while putting them into research experiments they're getting more grants for. In the meantime, women like who are being trafficked in the DEA owned strip club in NJ can't call the police for help. Those involved in this stripping and porn scandal you wrote about can't call the police for help. The girls pimped by a NY cop who would drive them all the way to NJ to turn tricks for him can't call the police for help. The ONLY group they can call for help is US.
However, we're blacklisted from any of the grant money because we're not "faith based", nor do we work with clients who call their hotline. To further make sure they have complete control over this field they've now even created a "survivor board" to "advise on policy" to the White House. What they've done is cut off from receiving help anyone who is being trafficked who can't call the police for help because those harming them are people within the legal system - the cops, the judges, the prosecutors, etc.
I've heard the big fuss about Rep. Cory Bookman going to rescue three kids - but those were human trafficking kids forced to work on an egg farm - not 14 year olds forced into porn and stripping. No - when we get those calls and try to reach him, Loretta Lynch, Kamala Harris, Dianne Feinstein, or any of these others' claiming to be supporters of the field I created mind you (check the dates at www.hightechmadam.com to verify I'm the founder of this movement which didn't exist prior to 1984 when I put together the first safe house in Van Nuys I got busted over) I can't get anyone on the phone. The Program for Female Offenders fell apart when I left town to have my daughter in 1991. I've seen tried to get anyone who will listen to help me put the program back together because of the need and I hear nothing.
Your story explains something to me - the only group I've been able to even get to talk to me since 1991 was a group of methadone addicts in Philly. When I've asked to be incorporated into the program there working with prostitutes in Philly - I can't get a return phone call. That's like the drug court refusing to take Bill Wilson's call. The methadone addicts are street walkers on drugs. They don't have a pimp because all their money goes into drugs. Yet when I've tried to get their counselors to speak to me - I get nowhere. I've tried getting into where the victims are being preyed upon by the pimps such as the strippers, the escorts, and those in porn - and no one returns my calls. In my 30 years now of experience that means somewhere some man is covering up his dirty laundry that he doesn't want anyone to find out about.
Which is why I've been saying the only way to address this issue is decriminalization. Then I won't have these men more worried about their ass than protecting these women from these pimps who can't call the police and their only resource is us. Which again was fine until 2003 when suddenly we've being cut out of the system entirely by these offices afraid they're not going to get their grant money if they go up against Polaris' competitor. Only how are we a "competitor"? Polaris wants to have the only one getting help are female trafficking victims. Those who are sex workers, the LGBT, transgenders, and those who are Jewish, they act like they don't exist. In other words, they are denied any services. The result?
We're now seeing an HIV epidemic this country hasn't seen since the 1980's. Because while we help anyone from any part of th sex industry to exit - we don't only focus on one tiny segment. We also don't block them from going to doctors as the ACLU v. Catholic Bishops proved was happening for many years. No our outreach campaigns used to be going out with condoms and information on HIV education and prevention - and then saying "if you know anyone who needs help to leave - have them call us". Now, unless you want to throw a pimp under the bus - you're just SOL. Leaving out entirely women like Pennsylvania saw of the three women who testified about how great their pimps were to them.
Only I ask you - what else would they say knowing they're going to have to give visitation to the father of those children for the next 18 years one of the victims was pregnant with on the stand? So there was no way she'd piss him off knowing she's going to have to let him know where his child is for the next 18 years or she gets charged with kidnapping. What did they expect? But did they bring us in to serve as an expert witness? Oh hell no because then I'd be also talking to the women in the strip clubs and massage parlors and the porn sets these men in your piece don't want exposed to the light of day.
So thank you for this article. It's more ammunition in my letters to those above at the White House about why there has to be a SEPARATE program from that connected to our law enforcement, our legal system, etc., or the majority of these men and women needing help to leave when they can't do it anyone. Nor can we put this on a basis connected to grant money or we're going to see more cases like this coming to light. http://traffickingandprostitutionservices.blogspot.com/2016/03/just-like-we-predicted.html
Jody Williams
www.sexworkersanonymous.com
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