Chris Anderson of the Troy Police Department, where in early August, police arrested a couple for running a home-based prostitution business advertised on Craigslist. Anderson said the increase in Internet use for prostitution has prompted the department to change operations to now include continuous monitoring of online activity in Troy.
Other communities are seeing cases of prostitution from women posting to Craigslist, backpage and social networking sites, including Kettering, where Montgomery County Organized Crime Unit officers in March arrested two women who posted on Craigslist erotic services, and in Miamisburg, where Dayton police detectives in May arrested a woman at the Red Roof Inn after contacting and meeting her following her posting to the site.
Both communities, however, are not reporting a rise in the number of prostitution arrests. And though Craigslist has changed its Web site from listing erotic services to now listing adult services and having staff monitoring of all sex-related advertisements prior to posting, things are slipping through the system, said Sgt.
They can have regular customers and pass along leads to other people. He said the safety issue, alone, is a huge contributing factor. The one constant among area communities seeing prostitution cases is that most of the women are prostituting themselves to support their drug habit. He said prostitutes usually range in age from 20s to 50s, while johns typically are between 20s and 70s. And though the city is cracking down hard on prostitution, Lowe said a significant part of the program is in getting women out of the vicious cycle and into programs to help them get back on track in life.
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