Prostitution in Toledo

It’s an organization designed to help victims of prostitution and human trafficking.

Williamson calls Toledo an “origin city.” Right now, she says, the FBI ranks it fourth in the nation for investigations, arrests and rescues of children; children forced into prostitution. You may not see them here, but what’s here under the surface, according to Williamson, is a network of recruiters, groomers and connectors, among others.

Mary Schmidbauer is the program director for Second Chance. She contends the only way to stop prostitution is to arrest those soliciting.

Sources inside the Toledo Police Department tell 13abc downsizing the Vice Squad has made prostitution arrests take a back seat. Meantime, cracking an underground network of human traffickers takes years of infiltrating the street; Finding victims and rooting out offenders one at a time.

See the full article from “13abc.com”


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