{"id":489913,"date":"2026-01-03T17:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489913\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:36:13","slug":"attempting-to-buy-sex-from-a-trafficking-victim-should-be-a-felony-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/489913\/","title":{"rendered":"Attempting to buy sex from a trafficking victim should be a felony \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201c19 alleged victims of sex trafficking rescued in sting operation\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiegouniontribune.com\/2025\/12\/23\/19-alleged-victims-of-sex-trafficking-rescued-in-sting-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dec. 23<\/a>): I am shaking with fury as I write this. Why are the alleged purchasers charged with misdemeanors? They are the cause of the whole crime of trafficking and rape. This should be a felony with a minimum of 20 years in prison. Traffickers aren\u2019t trafficking for the experience. They are trafficking for the money to be made. Where does that money come from? And who is laundering it?<\/p>\n<p>Write an editorial. We women are so angry that men have made us victims. Please use your power to do something.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Janet Black-Yznaga, Escondido<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201c19 alleged victims of sex trafficking rescued in sting operation\u201d (Dec. 23): I am shaking with fury&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":467714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-489913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115832382251512234","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/467714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}