{"id":907,"date":"2020-01-22T21:14:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nevadabrothelassociation.com\/?p=907"},"modified":"2020-01-22T21:14:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T21:14:58","slug":"nevada-legislators-turning-blind-eye-to-actual-sex-trafficking-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nevadabrothelassociation.com\/nevada-legislators-turning-blind-eye-to-actual-sex-trafficking-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nevada Legislators Turning Blind Eye to Actual Sex Trafficking Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Chuck Muth)<\/em> – Last year, the Nevada Legislature commissioned an interim study committee to look into the working conditions of prostitutes.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the committee – as reported recently by Ricardo Torres-Cortez of the Las Vegas Sun – won\u2019t be looking into this heart-wrenching situation\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cThe man beat, berated, choked, sprayed with Mace, and prostituted the teenage victim. Once, when he rented a hotel room and she couldn\u2019t get a \u2018John,\u2019 he forced her head under water in a bathtub as punishment. <\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnother time, after she told Brandon Lamar Pruitt she was raped by a client, he \u2018punched and hit her repeatedly because she did not know her cross streets and \u2018allowed\u2019 her own rape,\u2019 Nevada prosecutors wrote in federal court documents.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Torres-Cortez notes that the average age of similar victims of sex trafficking in Las Vegas is\u202614.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose are kids who should be in middle school,\u201d lamented Nicholas Trutanich, the U.S. attorney for Nevada who successfully prosecuted Pruitt.<\/p>\n

So why isn\u2019t the legislative study committee looking into the brutal and violent \u201cworking conditions\u201d of sex-trafficked teens in Las Vegas?<\/p>\n

Because the bill authorizing the committee limited the scope of the study to only the working conditions of commercial sex workers in Nevada\u2019s legal brothels.<\/p>\n

And brothels are NOT<\/u> legal in Las Vegas \u2013 despite the erroneous belief by some that it is.\u00a0 In fact, legal brothels are only licensed in a handful of Nevada\u2019s rural counties.<\/p>\n

Not Las Vegas.\u00a0 And not Reno.\u00a0 Where the REAL<\/u> problems are.<\/p>\n

Indeed, trafficking underage teen girls in Nevada\u2019s legal brothels is all but impossible since everyone must undergo an FBI background check and apply for a sheriff\u2019s card to work there.\u00a0 The only way someone underaged can work in a legal brothel is if they lie about their age and somehow fool the FBI with fake documents.<\/p>\n

Sadly \u2013 some might even say outrageously \u2013 the Legislature decided to only investigate and study the working conditions in Nevada\u2019s legal brothels where adult women, of their own free will, CHOOSE<\/u> to work in a safe and lawful environment.<\/p>\n

Where they don\u2019t have to fear being beaten, choked, sprayed with Mace or water-boarded by a violent street pimp.<\/p>\n

Where they don\u2019t have to fear going into a stranger\u2019s car or hotel room and never coming out.<\/p>\n

Where the don\u2019t have to fear reporting assaults, rapes and other crimes without incriminating themselves.<\/p>\n

Where they don\u2019t have to fear contracting a sexually transmitted disease since weekly testing and condom use is mandatory.<\/p>\n

Where they don\u2019t have to fear anyone taking their earnings other than the tax man at the IRS.<\/p>\n

The working conditions in Nevada\u2019s rural legal brothels are NOT<\/u> the problem.<\/p>\n

The REAL<\/u> problem is on the mean streets of Las Vegas and Reno.<\/p>\n

If Nevada legislators really want to help improve the working conditions of commercial sex workers, they\u2019d stop wasting time on the safe, licensed and regulated brothel operations in Elko, Lyon, Storey and Nye counties and focus on where the REAL<\/u> problems are.<\/p>\n

Mr. Muth is president of Citizen Outreach, a limited-government grassroots advocacy organization, and government affairs counsel to the Nevada Brothel Association.\u00a0 His views are his own.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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