Pittsburgh Massage Parlors: Bill will license massage parlors in city
April 19, 2011
Bill will license massage parlors in city
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
By Joe Smydo, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Joined by residents already working to stamp out sex trafficking, two Pittsburgh City Council members Monday unveiled legislation to eradicate massage parlors that they say force women into prostitution.
The legislation, sponsored by Doug Shields and Natalia Rudiak, would require annual licensing of the massage parlors. Applicants would have to provide character references and detailed information about their owners, including photographs and fingerprints.
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Jessica Dickinson Goodman, a Carnegie Mellon University student, has helped to identify 15 massage parlors in the city and seven in the suburbs that she believes are fronts for brothels that may be employing sex slaves. Her findings are based largely on customers’ graphic Internet postings about the business and their employees.
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