According to a report in the Sacramento Bee, teenage prostitution, in which meetings are arranged via Internet solicitations, is increasing rapidly. The girls being "recovered" from life as a prostitute — some of them as young as 14 — are moved from city to city, motel to motel by their controllers ("pimps") who solicit business on portable laptops with Internet access. Sacramento detectives have found victims transported to the California capital from Minnesota, Montana, Texas and Wisconsin.

In 2003, the FBI reported that about 1,400 juveniles were arrested nationally for prostitution, but law enforcement officials believe the number is much higher today — and growing.

The Sacramento Bee article is harrowing reading, and here’s the link .