I hope I am not re-posting this story from last week.  Sorry if anyone already posted this story:
http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=259763

-- Modified on 7/17/2007 12:48:09 PM

If anyone has "hunches" as to who some of the c/l girls were, you should post ph#s here under an alias... It's not uncommon for LE to re-post the ads/pics after these busts to widen the reach of their investagations...  Keep your heads down guys, It seems that there's an LE ramp-up surrounding all the negitive C/L press lately...

Kandy, Deja and Carmen are three of them.
They used to advertise on CL as a threesome.
I remember them, but I can't find their original posts.  Deja is Justine Alex Reisdorf, the 19 year old madam.

This article mentions Live Links by name.

is since when is a 19-yo considered a 'teenager'?

Last I heard, hitting the good 'ole one-eight makes you legally an adult.  Both the Star-Trib and WCCO have referenced the "teenage madam."

Not that they would ever sensationalize a story or anything...

Have you heard that we have landed on the moon?

13-19 is a teenager.  The big deal is that she is accused of recruiting girls younger than 18.

I was camping last week, okay?!

Now that gets the imagination and creativity flowing.......

This recruiting of minors (decide for yourself if that is merely a violation of law, or is exploitation) MAY have occurred at a school for EBD -- emotional-behavioral disorder -- students (decide for yourself if that makes the situation worse, or just kind of makes sense).

It seems possible the alleged recruiter had been a student at the school -- OR had hung with those kids in OR out of school -- and the LEGAL age difference might have seemed irrelevant to the parties (friends?) involved. Who knows?

In any case, LE appears to be chasing a PR winner (or, justifiably, a crime, depending on your perspective of LE as an agent of justice or of public relations).

After all, these are allegedly kids IN the school system -- a situation more compelling for LE than, say, giving perfunctory classes every six months to the local hotel clerks.

Hobbyists who don't wish to risk straying into this territory -- out of concern, or self-aggrandizement, or merely a wish to avoid undue hassles for themselves or providers -- certainly can.

Yeah, I hear you...  For sure, a 19 year old madam "recruiting" her teenage peers is possibly not the same as other more exploitative scenarios.

Although, even if we are only talking about a couple years difference, that's enough to make a 19 year old look impressive (and street saavy) to a teenager who is only two or more years younger.  And in reality, it's more like "the blind leading the blind."