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When Roberts graduated from ASU last May, she enthusiastically accepted a full-time professional position as a case manager with the Dignity program. Known nationally for its 360-degree outreach efforts and diversion programs for those arrested for prostitution and solicitation, Dignity boasts impressive success rates: 89 percent of those who complete their jail diversion program do not re-offend and 93 percent who go through the year-long residential program at Dignity House break the cycle of prostitution for life.
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“Runaway teens are running away from something—from domestic violence, or drug use in the family, or sexual abuse,” she emphasizes, “and within 48 hours of being on the streets, a third of runaways are contacted by pimps. Sending a minor back home or to a foster home or arresting or labeling someone as a prostitute or drug addict doesn’t address the complexities that led them to that life. But getting these kids into appropriate therapeutic and healing programs, we can turn their lives around.”

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Look it up on Facebook, and you’ll find the Millennium High School meme page is touted by its creators as “freedom of speech to the limit.” But some of the posts are profanity-laced personal attacks.
“When the page first came out it’s just about Millennium in general and it’s kind of funny,” said one student, who didn’t want to be named. “But then they started targeting students.”
The page grew in popularity with 471 “likes.” It got enough attention that administrators held an assembly addressing cyber bullying.
There are posts making fun of specific students and teachers over everything from height to sexual orientation.
Other comments said: “I’m not sure if those are prostitutes or Millennium freshman” or suggested there are teachers who look at child pornography on their school computers.

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Cyberbullying Facebook page targets Goodyear high school
Some students and teachers at Millennium High in Goodyear are upset over a Facebook page that calls students prostitutes, labels them homosexual or implies that teachers engage in child porn.

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Some students and teachers at Millennium High in Goodyear are upset over a Facebook page that calls students prostitutes, labels them homosexual or implies that teachers engage in child porn.

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Change in works for Scottsdale massage businesses by Taylor Summers/KTAR (March 30th, 2012 @ 5:32am)
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottsdale is considering changes that will make it tougher for potential massage businesses to get a license, all in an effort to crack down on underground prostitution rings.
The new standards will require the establishment to have an on-site manager present during all business hours, and that manager will be required to have a state-issued identification card. The amount that establishment will have to pay for a license will increase.
Scottsdale Police have made it clear that few of the city’s 140-plus massage establishments will have a problem meeting the new guidelines.
And few of those businesses think the objective of the proposed changes aren’t worth making new regulations. However, several establishments are asking for more flexibility in the ordinance.

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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Scottsdale is looking at implementing new rules aimed at keeping prostitution out of massage parlors. Scottsdale police officials tell The Arizona Republic the biggest change would involve the requirements for an on-site manager who acts as the point of contact for a business. The on-site manager would be required to be at the business during operating hours and carry a city- issued ID card.
Also an annual massage-facility license would increase to $300, from $260. A late renewal fee would go up to $200, from $180.
One north Scottsdale spa owner says she’s already paying nearly $600 a year to renew her operating license.
More than 140 establishments are listed as having massage licenses in Scottsdale.

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A 73-year-old man was sentenced to 10 years in prison and five years of probation after being found guilty of faking his own death to cover up a series of crimes he committed in the 1980s, according to the Maricopa County Superior Court.
Robert Arcieri entered guilty pleas to seven felony counts in February, according to the court.
Arcieri was accused of being involved in a variety of criminal activities, including assaults, burglaries, the drug trade, prostitution and trying to hire hit men to kill business associates, authorities said.
Arcieri was arrested in June in Palm Springs, Calif.
According to Phoenix police, Arcieri staged his own drowning in 1987 while on a fishing trip near Page in northern Arizona.
In an interview in June, Phoenix police Sgt. Tommy Thompson said authorities searched for Arcieri’s body but never found it.

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Bad Sex, Men’s Role in Buying and Selling Women, starts out with the painful story of a 15-year-old girl forced into prostitution. The article raises important issues regarding the commoditization and dehumanization of women. Beyond a focus on men who are willing to pay for sex, it examines the link between pornography and sex trafficking, arguing that a wider cross-section of men must be considered “enablers” of the sex trafficking trade. In a poignant passage in the article, filmmaker Philip Abraham, while shooting a documentary (Volviendo, being released nationwide in October) about the Latin American sex trade awakens to the reality that in watching pornography, he too is engaging in the global sex trade.
The article also points out (via research done by Mary Anne Layden, director of the sexual trauma and psychopathology program at the University of Pennsylvania) that men who cultivate prostitutes and pornography become less satisfied with their regular female partner’s attractiveness, sexual performance and level of affection. Those wh …

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The billion-dollar porn industry is fighting back, and on Saturday night they brought that fight to Phoenix, and that might not be all. Adult movie star and film producer Taryn Thomas signed autographs for fans at the first-ever Adult Film Convention in Phoenix — which happens to coincide with the Fifth Annual Porn Star Ball.
“Wherever work is, of course, I am going to flock to that as well,” said actress Amy Brook. Brook started making Internet movies in Phoenix in 2008 and, like Thomas, is willing to come back if it means freedom of expression, KSAZ Fox 10 reports.
Film maker Michael Whiteacre said he’s already seen change.
Producers and actors are packing up and moving to a new valley — one with no restrictions.
But former porn actress and founder of the Pink Cross Foundation, Shelly Luben, warns of something else.
“What they bring with them is rampant – STDs, prostitution, drug trafficking, let me tell you — they are going to recruit young women in Phoenix,” Luben told the station.

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PHOENIX — Hot on the heels of Arizona’s Maricopa County attorney Bill Montgomery’s warning to the porn industry to stay out of his state or face prostitution and felony charges, the Arizona Family Council is jumping on the anti-porn bandwagon.
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The statement reads, “Arizona Family Council is aware of the pornographic film industry’s interest to move to Arizona from California and has been working in the community, informing media, and educating lawmakers about the detriment this industry is to a community. The pornographic film industry will bring with it prostitution, drugs, and other serious criminal activity.
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The press release goes on to claim that producing porn in Arizona falls under the state’s laws against prostitution and how the legislation will be “a powerful deterrent to the pornographic film industry moving to Arizona.”

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