Justice committee  I go out and do public education and speak to kids, and I believe we need to target children. We need to get into the schools and teach them that this is not the lifestyle. Being gang-recruited and prostituted is just not a good life. I just spoke to 100 grade eight students, a

Justice committee  Definitely.

Justice committee  Definitely. I totally agree that the sentence should definitely be stronger for the male than for the person who is out there working the street. I'm not saying that she shouldn't have any consequence. She has a tremendous amount of consequence. If she is working for a pimp and

Justice committee  I believe they all should be dubbed the same. They will do criminal activities and be recruited at a younger age because if they do these crimes, they get less time. I believe they are all...and I don't care if you get ten 15-year-old kids together; they can be doing the same t

Justice committee  Of course, because that's their money. If you have four girls who are working for you, making you your money, and there's an organization pulling them away, yes, they're going to come in and try to intimidate these girls into staying. Whether it's threatening their family, whethe

Justice committee  How can you?

Justice committee  No, definitely not.

Justice committee  Yes, thank you very much.

Justice committee  The entry age is usually 12 or 13.

Justice committee  I was 12 years old when I started.... See, I wasn't recruited at 12; I started with a motorcycle club at 15 and a half.

Justice committee  Yes, that was your job. When you were with them, when you worked on the corner, you found other girls to be out there with you, yes.

Justice committee  They really don't want you doing drugs--at all. They want you clear. It's really hard to separate the two: when you're out selling your body, it's really hard to do it straight. So I used to sneak drugs and get high, but I used needles. When you're with a motorcycle club, you a

Justice committee  Yes, I feel very safe. I'm not scared.

Justice committee  Actually, I went to Mrs. Quinn's association to help others. I'm a very strong, bullheaded woman, and I'm not scared. I have never really been scared of men. There were nine kids in my family. I'm very different from a lot of other women and I understand that, so now my strengths

Justice committee  If a school approached them or anyone who was not police or court-related, I think they would be more open to looking at it rather than going to any kind of court or police, because then there's that label. Kids are really big on labels, on their pants or wherever. Labels are a s