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Tennessee Uses Sexual Servitude Statute for First Time

By Corey Rayburnyung

Two Tennessee men are being charged using a sexual servitude statute for the first time in the state's history.  As Ann Bartow appropriately noted, "I wonder how many times they didn?t think forced prostitution was 'serious enough' to do so." From WKRN:Two Hispanic men are behind bars in Nashville after police said they held a young woman against her will and forced her into prostitution. Arturo Perez and Jesus Garcia are charged with promoting prostitution and trafficking for sexual servitude after police said they would make the 22-year-old from Mexico City have sex with up to seven men a day. To make her obey investigators said they would stab and cut the young woman with an ice pick and threaten to kill her family. "It is serious enough that for the first time ever we're using the sexual servitude statute to charge these two individuals," Metro police spokesperson Don Aaron told News 2...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on December 04, 2008 (boomark / email).