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Saw this article today  
Interesting that SW are being g included in Covid tracking  

Massachusetts tracking coronavirus among ‘commercial sex workers

-- Modified on 1/18/2021 6:20:27 PM

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I dont pay and can always read for free direct from their app.. I suppose at one point, I gave them my email & registered..  
Sorry I never thought about it..

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Sorry.. no.. the Herald is the only paper with a story about it. Also included in that story is the bust in Canton

Here is the entire body of text from the article. By the way I do not subscribe to the Herald.  

Massachusetts tracking coronavirus among ‘commercial sex workers’

Advocates for exploited adults, children say effort missing many still being abused

Joe DwinellJanuary 17, 2021 at 4:08 p.m.

The state is now recording “commercial sex workers” in the daily COVID-19 testing data report. (Herald file photo of a testing site.)
The state has added “commercial sex worker” to the daily coronavirus testing report in a metric advocates for the exploited say is underestimating what could be a potential COVID-19 “superspreader.”

The sex workers occupation is listed alongside plumbers, hair dressers, nurses, engineers, teachers, the retired, unemployed and more, all tracked by the state daily for COVID-19 testing and deaths. The state Department of Public Health told the Herald the entry was added last month.

“The first time it was included was on December 3, 2020, in the Chapter 93 data, because that was the first time a case was identified and reported that occupation,” said DPH spokesman Omar Cabrera. “Because of small numbers of reports with that occupation, no additional information is available.”

Cabrera did not respond to Herald follow-up questions about fears the tally is underreporting children and adults who are being exploited for sex but fail to divulge that information.

A Herald analysis of daily coronavirus reports for the past two months shows that commercial sex worker was declared nine times as an occupation.

The metric comes as Attorney General Maura Healey’s office reported indictments of a man and woman for allegedly running two brothels in Framingham that saw 30 paying johns a day.

“Victims would typically arrive over the weekend, be sold for commercial sex for a week and leave as another victim arrived,” the indictments announced Friday allege. “The brothel(s) ushered in between 20 and 30 sex buyers each day, during which customers paid $45-$50 for 15 minutes of sex with victims.”

That alarming flow of abusers points to a potential public health crisis that goes mostly unreported, advocates for those exploited say.

“The pandemic has not slowed people from being prostituted,” said Nikki Bell, founder the CEO of Worcester-based Living in Freedom Together. “The desperation has actually increased.”

Food insecurity, staggering unemployment, isolation and substance abuse are all contributing to women, men and children being exploited. Some traffic has moved to online forums for pornography and explicit images, but in Boston, Worcester and beyond, the vulnerable are still being preyed upon.

“Referrals for our kids continue. They continue to be bought and sold in Eastern Massachusetts,” Lisa Goldblatt Grace, co-founder and executive director of Boston-based My Life My Choice, said. “The commercial sex industry is violent and degrading. Add a pandemic into it along with economic instability, and it just adds to the risk of getting the deadly virus.”

Emergency room doctors and nurses, social workers and those in law enforcement are still turning to My Life My Choice to report children they fear are being exploited, Goldblatt Grace says.

Advocates contacted by the Herald say “Johns Boards” — where men exchange vulgar insights on those they’ve abused or are looking to stalk — are still lit up. The fear of contracting the coronavirus has not deterred them, experts add.

“There’s a real potential for this to be a superspreader,” said Bell. “They are also exposing their families.”

Those who pay for sex are not likely to alert spouses or others to their risky behavior in the midst of a pandemic that’s still expected to peak in the coming weeks, as the Herald reported Sunday.

“We’re trying to push for more services for the most marginalized in our society,” said Bell, who also helps run a shelter. “If you reach to the bottom, everybody else comes up with them.”

Herald headline: "Attorney General Maura Healey accuses two of running brothels in Framingham"
A search will find many other stories about that. I can't include specific links because it mentions the names of the accused.  
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A man and a woman have been indicted in connection with trafficking women for sex at two brothels in Framingham residences that served as alleged fronts for human trafficking, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today.  
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Massachusetts State Police assigned to the AG’s Office began an investigation in 2019 after a referral from the Framingham Police Department. During the course of the investigation, authorities developed evidence indicating that  "A" and "B" ran a profitable and organized criminal enterprise through two residential brothels in Framingham where they offered sexual activity between victims and buyers in exchange for a fee.
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"A" allegedly texted advertisements with the new victim to his customer base every Monday. The AG’s investigation found that the brothel ushered in between 20 and 30 sex buyers each day, during which customers paid $45-50 for 15 minutes of sex with victims.  
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Through the Human Trafficking Division, the AG’s Office has charged more than 60 individuals in connection with human trafficking since the state’s anti-trafficking laws went into effect in 2012.  
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(Since 2012 (8+ years), 60 have been CHARGED with trafficking. It doesn't say anything about prosecutions, acquittals, or convictions.)

Posted By: exit9

Saw this article today  
 Interesting that SW are being g included in Covid tracking  
   
 Massachusetts tracking coronavirus among ‘commercial sex workers

-- Modified on 1/18/2021 6:20:27 PM

I couldn't access the OP's link to The Herald so I couldn't read it. I went to the Herald home page and saw the Healy brothel bust headline. I was able to find more and no-paywall hits on that subject / headline.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is why we don't give each other's info to contact tracers.  

If you're still patronizing ladies, and a contact tracer calls you to let you know you've been exposed, for the love of God PLEASE do not give the ladies info to contact tracers, contact her discretely to let her know yourself.  

I cannot speak for other ladies, but if I were heaven forbid exposed you'd hear from me directly (discretely of course), not from a contact tracer.  

They promise you it's confidential, but it's not, if it gets traced back to a SW situation it will end up on the news mark my word.

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