On 12 Mar 2022, Lefty Lundquist <lefty_lundquist@ggmail.com> posted some
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> Rob Bonta says it's okay for 15-16-year-old children to be
> prostitutes. No once did left-wing bottom-boy Rob Bonta do his job
> and object to the pervert measure 357.

Some of the girls are 15 and 16 years old, according to local leader

An Oakland, California, community is in shock after repeatedly seeing
groups of suspected prostitutes and human trafficking victims reportedly
soliciting outside a Catholic grade school.

"I get the call saying, 'Mr. Gallo, I can't get into my home because the
pimp is blocking my driveway,'" Oakland City Councilman Noel Gallo told
ABC 7 of the weekly calls he receives from residents in East Oakland.
"It's constant."

The Oakland Police Department is beefing up patrols outside the K-8 St.
Anthony Catholic School after parents and school leaders sounded the
alarm on the young, scantily clad women and girls they see walking near
East 15th Street in Oakland.

Last week, ABC 7 reported that as parents arrived at the grade school on
Monday morning, a suspected prostitute was already near the school,
apparently soliciting right in front of the school�s gate. However, the
scene is not uncommon.

"It's every day, during all periods of the day," local mother Rosa
Vargas told the outlet.

Vargas said the women are typically wearing skimpy outfits, even
sometimes naked, and often standing right in front of the gate of the
school. Pimps have even followed Vargas down the street on a couple of
occasions, she said.

NATIONWIDE PUSH TO LIBERALIZE PROSTITUTION LAWS PROMPTS CONCERNS ABOUT
HUMAN TRAFFICKING

Nearby International Boulevard has long been plagued with prostitution
and other crimes, but construction on East 12th Street has pushed the
prostitutes into residential neighborhoods, ABC 7 reported.

Some of the girls are only 15 or 16 years old, according to Gallo, which
has set off concerns of human trafficking.

"We've seen up to 20 women walking up and down this street," Gallo said.
"Young, young girls."

Rodney Pierre-Antoine, who oversees a network of local Catholic
elementary schools, including St. Anthony, said police are left in a
tough spot to take care of the situation, citing a recently enacted bill
that prohibits officers from arresting people on the suspicion of
prostitution.

"Their hands are somewhat handcuffed," said Pierre-Antoine.

The bill, authored by Democratic state Sen. Scott Wiener, was aimed at
protecting transgender women whom Wiener said are disproportionately
targeted by police. The law took effect on Jan. 1.

Local police have since sounded off that the bill prevents them from
rescuing young girls who have been trafficked, ABC 7 reported.

"That is absolutely dead wrong. SB 357 has been in effect for 30 days;
this problem has been around a lot longer. So, I think it's a cop-out
frankly for the police to say this law, which is brand new, is
preventing them from doing anything," Wiener told ABC7 when asked about
concerns from police.

Wiener told Fox News Digital on Monday morning that the situation
playing out in Oakland is "unacceptable" but that it is "not the result
of SB 357."

"The situation on International Boulevard is unacceptable, but it is not
the result of SB 357, a bill that attracted support from a broad
coalition, [including] California�s leading human rights organizations."
Wiener said in a statement. "Activity in this area apparently began to
rise over the summer, months before my bill came into effect and
perfectly timed with nearby road construction that pushed sex workers
out of their usual territory and into this adjacent residential area."

After the outlet reported concerns over human trafficking and
prostitution near the school, the FBI said it will install additional
surveillance cameras in the area, according to Gallo. An official with
the FBI added in a comment to ABC7 that the suspected trafficking might
be gang related.

"In many large cities, you have places that's called the stroll or the
walk, this is where the transaction is taking place," said Robert Tripp,
the special agent in charge for the FBI's San Francisco division.

"Usually the trafficker and the person in charge are one in the same,"
Tripp said. "This crime depends so much on the relationship between the
abuser and the victim. It's a very compact chain of command."

TEXAS CPS EMPLOYEE FIRED AFTER ALLEGEDLY TELLING 14-YEAR-OLD GIRL TO
BECOME A PROSTITUTE

Sources told the outlet that the FBI already picked up one 13-year-old
girl off of East 15th Street.

Gallo said he accompanied police on a ride-along to witness the
prostitution and saw a van with Nevada plates roll into the area early
in the morning and leave at night.

"When I was out on the street with police on a ride-along, I saw the van
pull up, and I saw license plates from Nevada. They were being brought
up from outside Nevada. ... I saw five, six girls get out of the van,"
Gallo said.

"Eight o'clock in the evening, I saw them all get back into the van,
drive on, and we followed them, and they went on the freeway and went
on," said Gallo.

Fox News Digital reached out to St. Anthony and the FBI on Monday
morning but did not immediately receive replies for additional comment.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/suspected-prostitution-ring-moves-neighborhood
-catholic-school-pimp-blocking-driveway