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ADVISORY COUNCIL ON SEX TRAFFICKING

https://endslaveryandtrafficking.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ATEST-Factsheet-Survivor-Advisory-Council-FINAL-September-21-2015.pdf If you look at the news clips at www.hightechmadam.com you'll see what appears to be me arrested for running a brothel in 1984.  Only thing is, it was the first safe house for adult sex trafficking victims in the USA.  The victim was being hid at this warehouse from the pimp who got angry and retaliated by calling in a tip I was running a brothel.  The victim had a broken arm and nose and testified against the pimp who was then arrested.  The charges against me were dropped. Realizing a different method was needed, I backed up to start the first hotline in this country, and the first program called Prostitutes Anonymous (remember we didn't have the term "trafficking" coined yet).  Back then all we knew was "voluntary" or "not".  This also launched the first alternative sentencing program for victims in Los An