The Prostitutes Are Here, Let the Party Begin!!! DNC Convention boosts sex trade in Denver

From the Human Trafficking Project Blog

“The exact number of sex workers trafficked into the city for the DNCC would be impossible to calculate. But many metro area strip bars have already tripled their staff in preparation for the convention, said Stephanie Sharp, who has done outreach work with Denver prostitutes and works for the STD division of the Colorado Department of Public Health. “[The police] have a whole list of things they have to be concerned about as well, and prostitution and sex trafficking is not at the top,” Moon added.

State Rep. Alice Borodkin, D-Denver, who has worked to crack down on human trafficking the last three years, said the convention could be a good opportunity to make contact with prostitutes brought into Denver, but logistically any outreach effort would be complicated. “My personal feeling is that we need to do a lot more. I’m not 100 percent convinced that people understand what they’re looking at,” Borodkin said.

Sharp said ideally outreach groups will join forces to offer resources and options outside of prostitution to any trafficked-in women.”

I hope some of the people being brought into Denver by the Sex Trade will be able to get the help out that they need.
And from the RH Reality Check Web site:

“Women in Denver typically enter prostitution at the age of 11 or 12, slightly younger than the national average, Sharp said.

To make matters worse, Denver is “almost completely pimp controlled” with pimps controlling almost all of the women who work as prostitutes through psychological manipulation and violence, Sharp said.

Of the 500 Denver prostitutes that Sharp has interviewed, she said only a handful worked for themselves.