Word: pimped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...particularly in Russia and Eastern Europe. As a following piece, we focused on a particularly terrible aspect of the problem, child prostitution. Our primary exhibit: a set of photographs taken in Moscow by freelance Russian photographer Alexey Ostrovskiy. Distributed first by Agence France-Presse, they purport to show a pimp named Sasha and two 11-year- old boys soliciting tricks near the Bolshoi Theater, an infamous pick-up spot. Some of the pictures, which showed the boys made up as girls, were too explicit to publish. The ones we did publish were awful enough, haunting and unforgettable...
...long after our cover story was published we began hearing ominous charges that they were not, charges emanating in particular from the photo editor of the Reuters bureau there, Richard Ellis. Soon the doubts were published as facts: that the boys were not prostitutes; that Ostrovskiy had paid the pimp and the boys to pose; that TIME had been duped...
...half nude at the local bar and beckons customers upstairs for one-on-one at $62 an hour. The 24-year-old emigrated from Donetsk, in Ukraine, where her meat-packer parents earned $2 a week and she could not support her baby daughter. Now married to a Serbian pimp, she says, "So many Ukrainian women would welcome the chance I am getting...
...invitation to complete her education. She sold her stereo to pay for gifts for her "host family" in Germany, only to arrive and be forced into a brothel. Others are lured by traffickers posing as marriage brokers. On a Belgian television documentary last month, Tibor, a tall, handsome Hungarian pimp, revealed his method: "I went to Romania. I heard a lot of girls wanted to leave. I took the kind of girl no one would miss if she disappeared. Girls who were having trouble with their parents or who lived alone. So when they were resold, no one would look...
...days' walk from Katmandu, Manju was 12 when her mother died. Unable to cope with three children, her father handed her over a few months later to two strangers: she thought she was going to Bombay to work as a housemaid. When the two men sold her to a pimp for $1,000, "there was nothing I could do," she says. "I was trapped." She is never allowed to set foot outside the brothel. Moreover, she is expected to repay her full purchase price. Rent, food and clothing are also deducted from her wages, so that seven years later...