Salt Lake Tribune · Dec 2, 2018
Leonard Pitts: ‘There is no such thing as a child prostitute’
FILE - In this March 22, 2017, file photo, then-Labor secretary-designate Alexander Acosta testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, at his confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. Acosta, the son of Cuban immigrants and the only Latino in President Donald Trump’s Cabinet, is defending a White House spending plan that would cut the government’s workforce policing civil rights laws. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) Federal prosecutors identified 36. In “Perversion of Justice,” a stunning piece of investigative work by Julie K. Brown that was published last week, the Miami Herald reported that it has found 80. But accounts given by the girls themselves suggest there may be hundreds.