Portland Escorts: Leaders work on solutions for sex trade problems
by escortingportlandMost people, understandably, don’t want to think that children anywhere in the United States – and especially in our own backyard – are vulnerable to being ensnared by the sex industry. But the problem has become so evident that the Portland area was even featured in a recent Dan Rather television special: “Pornland, Oregon: Child Prostitution in Portland.”
The TV show told viewers something that local law-enforcement officials already knew: Child prostitution is a national problem. And Portland, due to its location on the Interstate 5 corridor, provides fertile ground for those who make money from the entrapment and abuse of children. In fact, a U.S. Department of Justice study has ranked Portland and Seattle among 12 hub cities where traffickers recruit teenagers for sex work and move them around the country.