Palmdale is a city of approximately 166,000 residents, located in north central Los Angeles County near Lancaster. Cases of prostitution and sex trafficking have been reported in community. Among the more serious crimes associated with the city’s commercial sex market is child sex trafficking. For example, in October 2014, a Palmdale male sex trafficker was sentenced […]

Palm Springs, located in California, has a population of roughly 45,000.  Prostitution is a documented problem in the city, and includes the homicide of at least one prostituted woman, another murder of a prostituted woman by a convicted serial killer,  and the presence of large-scale prostitution rings.  The serial killer who targeted prostitutes was Andrew Urdiales, who […]

Pajaro is a census-designated place of roughly 3,500 residents, situated on the south bank of the Pajaro River in Monterey County, California, located south of Santa Cruz near Watsonville. Law enforcement have fielded complaints from residents about prostitution in the city. In July 2009, the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office launched an investigation that resulted in […]

Painesville is a community of approximately 21,000 residents, situated along Lake Erie east of Cleveland near Willoughby in Lake County, Ohio. Prostitution is a problem that the Painesville Police Department has focused on as a “quality of life” issue that they do not want to see become more widespread. At least one case of attempted child sex trafficking […]