Prostitute Anonymous: Tales of the Street from a Former Cleveland Madame
By Sam Allard , The Cleveland Scene
The stolen merchandise was in the kitchen; the guns were on the couch. The whores were in one room and Danny was in another, cutting up thousands of dollars worth of cocaine.
Typical Tuesday.
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“And for so many of these people, we’ve kind of dismissed them as prostitutes,” Walsh continued. “But the average age that young people are lured into prostitution is 12 to 14. These kids grow up and then all of a sudden they’re 20 or 22 and this has been their life. The trauma keeps them from getting back into school and into a different career path. So who do we jail? It’s the kids who we didn’t recognize as kids early on.”