Fourteen people were arrested and 10 victims were rescued in a human sex trafficking sting at San Diego Comic-Con Convention. 1 1

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

WTF

 

https://www.aol.com/finance/14-sex-buyers-arrested-10-235633877.html?soc_src=aolapp

[Greengiant]

It's a very large event and people can be taken unnoticed. It's scary.

I have a friend in the victims advocacy and she said the number one event where trafficking occurs is the Super Bowl.

[Robot Man]

Were they abducting or kid napping Con attendees?

[royaluglydudes]

No.  I hate the way these articles are framed.  These are people who are generally brought over from other countries under false pretenses and promises and then forced into sexual slavery and prostitution by their captors at big events like this and the Super Bowl where people are looking to buy sex. It's reprehensible no matter what, but people are not being abducted and trafficked from these events.

[MAY1979]

Wonder how many of the Comic Selling/Dealing Members here were perp walked or frog marched out of SDCC in the sting

Edited August 1 by MAR1979

[MAY1979]

From Evanier's Blog:

we have reports of another kind of disease at Comic-Con…

Fourteen people were arrested and 10 victims of sex trafficking were rescued — including a 16-year-old girl — in a sting operation at the Comic-Con International convention in San Diego, California, last week, officials said Thursday.

If you read the reports, it's clear that Comic-Con itself was in no way involved or responsible. It's just the kind of operation that thrives on events that attract people in certain age groups. It was probably way more prevalent in San Diego back when it was more of a "Navy town" than it is these days. We don't have (or need) many more details than that.

A friend at the con also told me that there was a legal brothel just over the border in Tijuana that was advertising special discounts if you showed them your Comic-Con badge. Mine said "Invited Guest" on it so I wonder what I could have gotten down there — apart from something much worse than COVID.

[The humble Watcher lurking]

This happens at the Super Bowl as well. 

https://aimfree.org/super-bowl/

https://www.reuters.com/article/world/is-the-super-bowl-really-the-uss-biggest-sex-trafficking-magnet-idUSKBN1FL6A0/

 

 

 

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

On 8/1/2024 at 9:49 AM, MAR1979 said:

Wonder how many of the Comic Selling/Dealing Members here were perp walked or frog marched out of SDCC in the sting

I’d like to think none. All the comic geeks I know have women throwing themselves at them and need not resort to such measures. At least the golden age collectors do not 

Edited August 1 by GreatCaesarsGhost

[Jaylam]

Just think of how much of this goes on at any major event, especially sporting events.

[Bumble Kitty]

On 7/31/2024 at 8:01 PM, Greengiant said:

I have a friend in the victims advocacy and she said the number one event where trafficking occurs is the Super Bowl.

Yes, the Super Bowl is the number one event for human trafficking, regardless of what city it is in.  

[jimbo_7071]

On 8/1/2024 at 1:34 PM, GreatCaesarsGhost said:

I’d like to think none. All the comic geeks I know have women throwing themselves at them and need not resort to such measures. At least the golden age collectors do not 

I have women throwing themselves at me, but they all look like this:

[jimbo_7071]

On 8/1/2024 at 10:56 AM, MAR1979 said:

[A] legal brothel just over the border in Tijuana . . . was advertising special discounts if you showed them your Comic-Con badge. Mine said "Invited Guest" on it so I wonder what I could have gotten down there — apart from something much worse than COVID.

Watering can perineum—a forgotten complication of gonorrhoea.

Edited August 3 by jimbo_7071