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Zumba madam tearfully talks of childhood abuse in Maine sentencing

May 31, 2013 11:47
By Scott Malone ALFRED, Maine (Reuters) - A Zumba instructor who admitted to using her exercise studio as a front for a prostitution business tearfully described a history of abuse before being sentenced to 10 months in county jail on Friday. The instructor, 30-year-old Alexis Wright, and her 57-year-old conspirator Mark Strong, had recorded Wright's sessions with clients and maintained a list of about 150 local men -- disclosures that shocked the seaside town of Kennebunk, Maine, where Wright operated.

Australia jails Thai woman for prostituting daughter, 9

April 16, 2013 04:46
A Thai-born woman was jailed in Australia Tuesday for prostituting out her own daughter from the age of nine, marketing her to clients as the "new girl" in crimes condemned as "despicable". The woman, 41, was jailed for nine years in the Brisbane Supreme Court after pleading guilty to 20 offences including child trafficking and prostitution for putting her daughter into sex work at her massage parlour and brothel.

Amsterdam raises legal age for prostitution to 21

February 26, 2013 17:45
BRUSSELS — The city also wants brothels in Amsterdam's landmark red-light district to close between 4 a.m. and 9 a.m. on weekdays and from 5 a.m. on weekends.

More US soldiers docked pay over Colombia prostitution scandal

January 11, 2013 20:45
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Another three U.S. soldiers were docked pay and reprimanded over their roles in the Secret Service prostitution scandal in Colombia last year, the U.S. military disclosed on Friday. U.S. military troops and Secret Service agents were helping provide security arrangements for President Barack Obama before his April visit to a summit in the seaside city of Cartagena.

Report links US drug agents to Secret Service prostitute scandal -NBC

January 10, 2013 20:45
WASHINGTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Two U.S. drug enforcement agents "facilitated a sexual encounter" between a prostitute and a Secret Service agent before an international summit in Colombia last April, NBC News reported on Thursday, citing a Justice Department investigation. The two Drug Enforcement Administration agents also admitted paying for the sexual services of a prostitute, and used their government-issued BlackBerry devices to arrange the encounters, NBC reported.
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