Word: brattleboro
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Details are sketchy, for obvious reasons, but what is known is that 10 eight to 13-year-old boys and girls in Brattleboro, Vt., organized a prostitution operation and ran it without an adult pimp for up to a year before it was shut down last week. Police say the idea originated when a girl was sexually molested by two or more adults sometime last year. It apparently occured to the child that there was money to be made...
Think for a moment about the hypocrisy of treating 12-year-old prostitutes as victims, while treating 18-year-old prostitutes as criminals. Brattleboro police excuse the kids by saying they were brought up badly, they didn't know right from wrong, they had negligent parents, etc. And they are probably right. But don't these same arguments apply to prostitutes of all ages, and in fact most criminals...
...BRATTLEBORO, VT., is a small town. But the decision the city has made will have big ramifications. If pre-adolescent prostitutes in southern Vermont are victims, then where do you draw the line between victim and offender? At age 18? You can't expect a kid who grows up thinking he can get away with everything to stop breaking the law on his 18th birthday. At certain crimes? Then you give the green light for kids to commit, say, petty theft. At multiple offenses? Even more than the one-time offender, a kid who commits several crimes needs help...
...Social Security check No.1 for $22.54 went in January to Ida Fuller of Brattleboro Vt. who had paid a total or $22 in Social Security taxes. Fuller drew her last monthly check for $112.60 in December 1974 shorty after her 100th birthday. By then she had collected $20,944.42 in return for her $22. *Secretary of the treasury Donald Regan, Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, and secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker
...hockey jackets waved Expos pennants up and down Rue Sherbrooke, having made the trip down from Trois Rivieres or Quebec City that afternoon. Distinguished-looking men in business suits stepped off the Air Canada non-stop from Toronto with Expos buttons on their lapels. Frustrated New Englanders arrived from Brattleboro and Bangor, wearing Red Sox jackets and Expos hats...