Archive for February, 2010

San Antonio Adult Entertainment: Missing Baby Gabriel Johnson Victim of Human Trafficking?

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Did Elizabeth Johnson Sell Her Child in the Adoption Underground?
With the horrible case of alleged prostitution and possible human trafficking of 5-year-old Shaniya Davis as a reminder of the depravity to which some can fall, it does not take much of an imagination to cast Baby Gabriel Johnson’s mother, Elizabeth Johnson, or Jack and Tammi Smith, the
 Arizona couple that were attempting to adopt Baby Gabriel, as possible characters in a human trafficking play. Given many of the details of the lengths to which Tammi Smith allegedly went to in order to adopt Baby Gabriel, lengths thwarted by the child’s father, the casting becomes a bit easier. And then there are the dealings between Johnson and the Smiths, the strange e-mails, and Elizabeth Johnson’s cross-country ride to San Antonio, where Baby Gabriel seems to have vanished without a trace.

See the full article from “Associated Content”

San Antonio Adult Entertainment: A Spurs Youth Athletic League Success Story: Orlando Mendez-Valdez

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

Formerly known as the Drug Free League, the Spurs Foundation financially supports the SYBL, providing jerseys, certified coaches training and other benefits. Orlando needed the top-notch instruction on values. He also needed to embrace the league’s mandate: No drugs, alcohol or tobacco allowed. “Reading the drug free pledge before every game made an impact on me,” Orlando says. “It was really a chance to stay away from all the bad influences and continue on the right path.” On the alley-like road where Orlando once lived, temptation lurked on the corner. Horror knocked on the door. One morning he awoke to a loud banging. When he opened the door, a half-naked prostitute stood before him, bleeding from multiple knife wounds.
Another time, he peeked out the back door and saw a train run over a man on the tracks, severing both legs. Even now, years after taking Orlando out of that neighborhood, Abel hears bits and pieces of stories he’s never heard. “Orlando saw people get shot,” Abel says. “He saw people get killed. He saw prostitution. He saw stabbings. He saw a lot of things a child should not witness.”

See the full article from “Spurs.com”

San Antonio Escorts: Social workers play detective to reunite families

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

The case of 10 Idaho missionaries accused of kidnapping 33 children when they tried to take them to an orphanage in the Dominican Republic called attention to the “premature exodus” of Haitian children, Paul says. At least 20 of the children have living parents. The children are at an SOS home temporarily. The missionaries are in jail, awaiting the next step in their case.
At least 157 unaccompanied children have been listed.
Fontaine expects to trace the families of hundreds of children.
UNICEF, the United Nations’ children’s advocacy agency, estimates there were 380,000 orphans in Haiti before the quake. The agency estimates an additional 173,000 were restavecs, living apart from their families, doing domestic work for no pay.
Fontaine says it is too soon to estimate how many were orphaned by the disaster.
The country has a history of trafficking and exploiting children, says Lisa Laumann of Save the Children, which is working in Haiti to reunite children with their families. Unaccompanied children are the most at risk for being forced into prostitution or unpaid labor, she says.

See the full article from “USA Today”

San Antonio Escorts: Pope: “You Go to War w/ Salvation Army You Have, Not Salvation Army You Want”

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010

SAN ANTONIO, Texas — The Salvation Army was founded in 1865. Its first converts were alcoholics, heroin addicts, prostitutes and other “undesirables” unwelcome in polite Christian society. And for nearly 150 years, these undesirables have been running one of the most lucrative and scandalous charities in existence.
From 1940 through the 1970s, the Salvation Army in Australia sheltered approximately 30,000 children and acknowledged that sexual molestation may have occurred, affecting as many as 500 potential “claimants” (the term the Army uses to describe victims of its abuses who have secured legal counsel).
In December 2001, a Moscow court ruled that the Salvation Army was a “paramilitary” organization subject to expulsion when the Army jokingly told Russian officials that after it had trained Polish soldiers to commandeer septic tanks, they would invade.

See the full article from “Glossy News (satire)”

San Antonio Strip Clubs: The San Antonio Shimmy

Friday, February 12th, 2010

The San Antonio Shimmy 
Talking with Bill White campaign aide Bill Kelly last week, the issue of House Bill 1751 – the state’s poorly-written and unconstitutional $5 stripper surcharge bill – came up. He was wondering what was happening so, hey, Bill, quick update: It’s going before the Texas Supreme Court.
As former chief of staff to bill author Rep. Ellen Cohen, D-Houston, Kelly and Newsdesk agreed to disagree over the constitutionality of the bill. Ultimately, Newsdesk had both District Judge Scott Jenkins and the Third Court of Appeals on their side in saying, no, it’s unconstitutional.
However, the state (which simply won’t let this shabby, ill-written piece of legislation drop, even after major legislative efforts to fix its inherent flaws) filed a further petition for review. This morning the court posted that it will receive oral arguments at the law school at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio on March 25.

See the full article from “Austin Chronicle (blog)”

San Antonio Escorts: The QueQue

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Except it wasnt 1997. Allen Monroe was killed in May 2007, a detail that seems inconsequential to Rai, who couldve easily found a deed from 2002 conveying Malcolms interest to Allen in the Bexar County records. And despite his for-sure RIP status in 2009, the Citys code-compliance notices were addressed to the deceased Mr. Monroe, says attorney Eddie Bravenec, who obtained a stay on the demo and has filed an appeal.
So was the notice for a September 14, 2009, Dangerous Structures Determination Board hearing, where two police officers testified that the house is a haven for drug and prostitution activities, and was the site of a murder over a drug deal. The neighbors are afraid of retaliation from the [again, according to the City: dead] owner and his friends if they complain about this structure before the Board, one added, and an elementary school is just down the street.

See the full article from “San Antonio Current”

San Antonio Strip Clubs: California Live: A Lakers Fan Hijacks Blazers Game Coverage…Again

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

12:00 – Lakers control the tip, but Juwan Howard puts the Blazers on the board first with a jumper. He then turns around and puts Bynum on the line, who hits one of two. Bayless tries to draw a foul on Fish but just ends up bricking a jumper. A few possessions later, Fish shows him how it’s done and hits one of two at the line. Bynum weaves into the lane, and the crowd wants a travel call, of course. Fish gets the assist in to Bynum, but Howard beats L.A. back with a layup. And another wide-open jumper from the old man puts Portland up 12-8.
6:57 – Shannon Brown in for Fish with a nice reverse layup. Blazers turnover, and Lamar is fouled. He makes both and L.A. is up 13-12. Martell Webster scores, but Fish responds with a jumper. And another nice shot from Shannon leads to a Portland time-out. Now strippers are delivering free pizza to select areas in the crowd. Does free Pizza Hut violate some sort of journalistic code about receiving gifts from the people we’re writing about? What about a lapdance?

See the full article from “Willamette Week (blog)”

San Antonio Escorts: Your friendly neighborhood pervert

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

What you’ll likely find is that there are tons of people on those lists that don’t represent a real danger to our kids. The list includes 16 year olds who had sex with their underaged girlfriends and ended up on a lifetime registry. As she reports, “in 13 states you can end up on the registry for peeing in public. In five states, you can get on it for visiting a prostitute. Another 32 states register streakers. All in all, a study of 17,000 registered offenders by the Georgia Sex Offender Registration Review Board concluded that five percent of the people on the list were “clearly dangerous.” It also determined that just over 100 of the 17,000 (1 in 170) were actual “predators” — people who feel compelled to commit sex crimes.”

See the full article from “Tampabay.com (blog)”

San Antonio Escorts: David Squires Urban Affairs

Monday, February 8th, 2010

King would not be proud that African-Americans have abandoned the “it takes a village” approach to raising all the kids in the neighborhood and that now we are more fixated on keeping up with the Joneses and buying houses too big and cars too gaudy, making us easy marks for the big banks.
And he would not be proud that many of our women and men spend as much as $3,000 to have other people’s hair — and sometimes fake hair — affixed to their heads.
King would not be too proud that Democrats and Republicans continue to bicker over superficial issues, such as whether Obama has a “Negro dialect,” but not work jointly to solve real problems, such as medical care, child care and a decent job for all Americans.
King would not be proud of those who call themselves ministers but are nothing more than pimps in the pulpit, and he would be ashamed that so-called men of the cloth such as Pat Robertson would pass judgment on a grief-stricken nation such as Haiti in its greatest hour of need.

See the full article from “Daily Press”