Filed under: hookers, people from rhode island | Tags: asian spas, citizens against trafficking, donna hughes, federal hill, indoor prostitution, melanie shapiro
Sorry I haven’t been updating you on Rhode Island prostitution stuff; once the law passed things got quiet for a while, but now they’re picking up again. Two weeks ago the first spas got raided; women were arrested and translators weren’t provided. Tara has the story about that.
Two days before that, though, Citizens Against Trafficking sent out a newsletter wondering why spas–or, actually, just one spa–hadn’t been shut down. They’re ready to start the public shaming stage of their moral witch hunt, in other words!
CAT founder Donna Hughes and sidekick Melanie Shapiro try hard to mislead readers into falling for their crazy talk, starting with the probably untrue headline “Federal Hill Resident & Restaurateur Forced to Move Because of Spa-Brothel.” According to the duo, the “illegal operation” of the Fuji Spa on Atwells Avenue “has forced a resident and restaurateur to move” because of, among other things, “the unsanitary residue of sex acts” (left on doorknobs) that “have neighboring residents and businesses fed up.”
