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What happened
As part of the FBI's "Innocence Lost" inniative, almost 50 juvenile prostitutes, including 10 from Seattle, were rescued during a nationwide crackdown by local and federal authorities on pimps who force children to sell sex for money. The youngest girl rescued in Seattle was 13. Thirty- five adult prostitutes also were arrested in Seattle,as well as two men and one woman suspected of promoting minors in prostitution. The suspects were arrested after supervising girls who met undercover detectives in the 200 block of Sixth Avenue North. No names of those arrested were given in the article. This article also gave information about an arrest made in January of Toda Robinson, 33, who dropped off girls to perform sex acts after the girls, both 15, asked an undercover detective if he was a cop, which he denied. They agreed to perform sex acts for $425. Thus he was arrested with two counts of promoting commercial sexual abuse.
Response and intervention
The sweep included task forces of police, federal agents, and prosecutors. For the minors who were rescued, the article said, "Authorities tried to put minors into safe housing with family members or CPS - somewhere safe and away from the street life. No other future services were mentioned. Information is from a February 24, 2009 newspaper article of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The article is titled, "Strike against child sex workers hits home: Local youths rescued in prostitution busts."