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To be sure, Wyden has been working on the issue for months. He’s pushing legislation to help Portland and other cities provide safe houses for prostitutes, where they can be separated from their pimps. Yet even though the senator was well aware of the problem, the ride-along came as a shock.
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It’s another thing to see a 15-year-old at 11 p.m, looking for customers. The girl Wyden saw had a regulation kit of sorts — a butcher knife, three condoms and a cell phone. As The Oregonian’s Allan Brettman reported last week, text messages on the phone linked the girl to someone believed to be her pimp.
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Once young girls develop a bond with a pimp, however, it’s difficult to retrieve them. A police officer swooping in can make a difference, but only if he or she has the legal authority to help the girl and a safe place to lodge her, away from her pimp. Getting her to testify against him is another battle. If the girl is just returned “home” (often to foster care), she is almost certain to return to prostitution.

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