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Posted by: phoenixconfidential in Phoenix adult entertainmentAlbuquerque Police have also provided a photo of a distinctive acrylic nail Edwards was wearing at the time of her death.
If Edwards did sell her body, at 15, she would be among many teens in this country to do so.
Carol Lease is the executive director of The Empowerment Program. It provides housing, health, employment and education services for women involved in the criminal justice system.
“It is common,” Lease said, citing research done in 2002 in Chicago by the Center for Impact Research. “They talked to many women working on the street, former prostitutes, and identified that about 33 percent, a third of the women on the streets started prostitution before they were 15 years old. It’s amazing.”
Lease said, “Most of those young women they found in Chicago had grown up in households where prostitution occurred, mother, sister, aunt, relatives. Where there was drug use, high rates of domestic violence, high rates of mental illness or trauma. Of course all these young girls are traumatized.”
According to Lease, the Chicago study represents the situation in major U.S. But Lease says a similar study has not been done in Denver.
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