Archive for May, 2009

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Nevada’s legislature has approved a bill that targets juvenile prostitution.

John Hambrick, the bill’s sponsor, tells OneNewsNow that the problem is serious — especially in Las Vegas.

“Last year and the year before, the Metropolitan Police Department Vice Squad arrested roughly 207 pre-teenage prostitutes,” he notes, “and they were prostituted out between 10 and 15 times a day, six days a week.”

The bill targets the pimps in hopes to reduce ...

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CARSON CITY — Pimps who lure children into prostitution would lose their personal assets and be fined as much as $500,000 under a bill that won unanimous approval Monday in the Senate. Assembly Bill 380 has already cleared the Assembly and now goes to Gov. Jim Gibbons for his signature.

“This shows we really mean business,” said Assemblyman John Hambrick, R-Las Vegas.

Hambrick, a former law enforcement officer, introduced ...

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Legislature targets pimps with huge fines for child prostitution

By ED VOGEL
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL CAPITAL BUREAU

CARSON CITY — Pimps who lure children into prostitution would lose their personal assets and be fined as much as $500,000 under a bill that won unanimous approval Monday in the Senate.

Assembly Bill 380 has already cleared the Assembly and now goes to Gov. Jim Gibbons for his signature.

“This shows we really ...