Buy sex, go to school: Anti-trafficking classes target johns
October 29, 2017
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — On a recent Saturday, about two dozen men are stuck in a dark auditorium near downtown Columbus for a combination of detention and education.
The men — a mix of races, ages and economic status — are in the Franklin County Justice Center because they'd been arrested for trying to buy sex. Some were caught in an online sting that lured them to a hotel room. Others approached an undercover female officer on the street.
The first-time offenders were given a choice: attend a mandatory daylong seminar and the arrest is removed from their records.
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