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Houston's illegal massage parlors just reopen with new names

Posted by Julie Waters on Monday, November 1, 2010, In : Houston sex trafficking

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7272500.html

A blot Houston can't erase

Despite constant raids, illegal massage parlors just reopen with new names

By YANG WANG
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Nov. 1, 2010, 8:02AM

It has been called VIP Spa, King Spa, Montage Massage & Day Spa and now, Du Soleil — although it has no sign marking it as a massage parlor, just some curtain-covered windows in a storefront strip mall and a red and blue light declaring it "OPEN."

On 14 visits to this ...

Sex Trafficking Victims rescued in Houston

Posted by Free the Captives on Friday, August 20, 2010, In : Houston sex trafficking

Prosecutors: Illegal immigrants rescued from Houston sex-trafficking operation

http://www.khou.com/news/Prosecutors-Man-accused-of-prostituting--101111429.html
by khou.com staff

khou.com

Posted on August 19, 2010 at 5:03 PM

Houston mother trafficks her 14 year old daughter into prostitution

Posted by Free the Captives on Friday, August 13, 2010, In : Domestic Trafficking

POSTED: Friday, August 13, 2010

UPDATED: 4:23 pm CDT August 13, 2010

http://www.click2houston.com/news/24619619/detail.html

HOUSTON -- Prosecutors say a 14-year-old girl's mother and her grandmother have been charged in Houston with forcing the child to work as a prostitute to pay their living expenses.

Elizabeth Buford, Alicia Melchor

Elizabeth Buford, 55, and Alicia Melchor, 33, remained in the Harris County Jail on Friday.Investigators said that Melchor, the girl's mother, is charged with...
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Texas Monthly, The Lost Girls

Posted by FTC on Friday, April 2, 2010, In : Houston sex trafficking

The Lost Girls

For the thousands of women who have been trafficked into Houston and forced to work as prostitutes in the city’s underground sex trade, escaping from captivity may be the easiest part of the nearly impossible road to recovery.

by Mimi Swartz

Left: A bathhouse listed on a Web site of erotic massage parlors in Houston. Right: Women at a spa hide their faces during a February 19 inspection by the Harris County precinct 4 constable’s office.
Photographs by Van Ditthavong

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