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Chesterfield County is a county of approximately 371,000 residents, located in the southern suburbs of Richmond, Virginia. Its county seat is the city of Chesterfield. Sex trafficking and prostitution have been well documented problems in the county for decades. In this county, sex buyers have been the main targets of prostitution stings. Operations such as […]
Chesapeake is a city of about 251,000 residents located south of Norfolk in the Hampton Roads area of southeast Virginia. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the city, and related violent crimes against those in prostitution, have been well-documented problems for decades. Consumer level demand provides the revenue stream for all prostitution and sex trafficking, and […]
Chattanooga is a city of approximately 181,000 residents, located in Hamilton County in southeastern Tennessee. Prostitution has been well-documented as a problem in the city for decades. There have also been many verified cases of other serious crimes driven by the commercial sex market, such as sex trafficking and the targeted assault and murder of […]
Charlotte is a city in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. It is the largest city in the state, with a population of approximately 880,000 residents. The city also has the highest number of reported sex trafficking cases in North Carolina each year, according to the National Human Trafficking Hotline. Street prostitution has been a persistent and […]
Charleston is the capital city of West Virginia, and has a population of about 48,000. It is situated in Kanawha County. Residents and local law enforcement have reported problems related to prostitution in the city for decades, including the serial rape of 12 to 15 women engaged in prostitution in the mid-1990s through the early […]
Chandler is a city of about 280,000 residents in the greater Phoenix area. Prostitution activity has been well-documented within the county, and the problems and ancillary crimes it generates results in complaints to law enforcement agencies from residents and businesses. For example, in December 2013, a Maricopa County juvenile detention officer was arrested on charges […]
Champaign is a city of 89,000 residents in east/central Illinois. Problems associated with the local commercial sex market have been well documented and include cases of sex trafficking. For example, in January, 2021, the U.S. District court sentenced a man to multiple life prison terms for trafficking young women for sex. The man ran his […]
Cedar Rapids is a city of approximately 133,000 residents, located in Linn County in eastern Iowa. Federal and local law enforcement have fought pervasive sex trafficking and prostitution in the area for decades. Included in the array of tactics used to combat such crimes have been those addressing consumer-level demand for prostitution. The first known […]
Cedar City is the largest city in Iron County, Utah. It is located 250 miles south of Salt Lake City and 170 miles north of Las Vegas. Cedar City has a population of approximately 35,000. Prostitution and sex trafficking in the city are well documented. For example, a Cedar City woman was arrested in November […]
Castaic is an unincorporated community of approximately 19,000 residents, located in the northwestern part of Los Angeles County, CA. Prostitution and sex trafficking are well-documented in the city, aided in part by close proximity of the Interstate 5 freeway, which is an artery of travel for both legal and illegal activities (such as narcotics and […]
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