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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Moreno Valley School Board Member Mike Rios Makes Bail

Moreno Valley School Board member Mike Rios makes bail; bail sources approved by Judge Dugan. Rios is charged with pimping, pandering and rape charges stemming from a prostitution operation that authorities said he ran out of his home.

As part of the terms for the $250,000 bail, the unidentified bondsman required Rios to wear an electronic ankle bracelet, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Becky Dugan said. The device sends a signal giving the wearer’s location at all times.

Jail records Tuesday night indicated Rios was no longer in custody.

Dugan made the decision to allow bail after reading in chambers a declaration from Rios, which she sealed.

Deputy District Attorney Michael Brusselback said the bail was being granted under the continuing objection of his office. The open-court hearing followed what he called “extensive” in-chambers discussion about Rios' declaration among Dugan, Brusselback and Deputy Public Defender Michael Micallef.

“I do find the bail in this case comes from legitimate sources,” Dugan said.

A court order remains in effect for Rios to stay away from alleged victims as well as any unrelated minors.

Rios, 42, was arrested April 4 and faces 11 felony charges in the pimping, pandering and rape case. Authorities said up to six females were involved, two of them 17 years old. He has pleaded not guilty.

In February, Rios has been charged with attempted murder after police said he shot at two men outside his home . No one was injured. Rios spent almost a month in jail before posting $250,000 bail in that matter.

In the pimp, pander and rape case, two underage girls, along with one adult woman, were approached about becoming prostitutes, according to the complaint.

Three adult women were allegedly employed by Rios, who took their pictures and advertised their availability on the Internet, set prices for the women's services, drove them to and from appointments and supplied condoms for their encounters, according to a declaration filed in the case. Prosecutors said none of the females involved were students in the Moreno Valley school district.

On Friday, members of the Moreno Valley Unified School Board went to the Banning jail facility where Rios was being held and asked for his resignation from the board, but he refused.

They said Rios told them he expected to be at the next board meeting.

Rios has said he is innocent and that unidentified people were making up claims to stop him from running for Moreno Valley City Council. He ran unsuccessfully for City Council in 2008. Then in 2010 made a surprise last minute run for a Moreno Valley Unified School board seat.

In spite of claims otherwise, Rio's has been linked to Developer Iddo Benzeevi and former board member Victoria Baca of the Mexican Political Association. Baca herself was convicted of interfering with a police officer at a publicity stunt during her one term tenure on the Moreno Valley Unified School Board.

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SYSTEMATIC USE OF CHILD LABOR

CHILD DOMESTIC HELP
by Amanda Kloer

Published February 21, 2010 @ 09:00AM PT
category: Child Labor
Wanted: Domestic worker. Must be willing to cook, clean, work with garbage, and do all other chores as assigned. No contract available, payment based on employer's mood or current financial situation. No days off. Violence, rape, and sexual harassment may be part of the job.

Would you take that job? No way. But for thousands of child domestic workers in Indonesia, this ad doesn't just describe their job, it describes their life.

A recent CARE International survey of over 200 child domestic workers in Indonesia found that 90% of them didn't have a contract with their employer, and thus no way to legally guarantee them a fair wage (or any wage at all) for their work. 65% of them had never had a day off in their whole employment, and 12% had experienced violence. Child domestic workers remain one of the most vulnerable populations to human trafficking and exploitation. And while work and life may look a little grim for the kids who answered CARE's survey, it's likely that the most abused and exploited domestic workers didn't even have the opportunity to take the survey.

In part, child domestic workers have it so much harder than adults because the people who hire children are more likely looking for someone easy to exploit. Think about it -- if you wanted to hire a domestic worker, wouldn't you choose an adult with a stronger body and more life experience to lift and haul and cook than a kid? If you could get them both for the same price, of course you would. But what if the kid was cheaper, free even, because you knew she wouldn't try and leave if you stopped paying her. Or even if you threatened her with death.

Congress Aims to Improve Laws for Runaway, Prostituted Kids

by Amanda Kloer

categories: Child Prostitution, Pimping

Published February 20, 2010 @ 09:00AM PT

The prospects for healthcare reform may be chillier than DC weather, but Democrats in the House and Senate are turning their attention to another warmer but still significant national issue: the increasing number of runaway and throwaway youth who are being forced into prostitution. In response to the growing concerns that desperate, runaway teens will be forced into prostitution in a sluggish economy, Congress is pushing several bills to improve how runaway kids are tracked by the police, fund crucial social services, and prevent teens from being caught in sex trafficking. Here's the gist of what the new legislation is trying to accomplish:

Shelter: Lack of shelter is one of the biggest vulnerabilities of runaway and homeless youth. Pimps will often use an offer of shelter as an entree to a relationship with a child or a straight up trade for sex. In the past couple years, at least 10 states have made legislative efforts to increase the number of shelters, extend shelter options, and change state reporting requirements so that youth shelters have enough time to win trust and provide services before they need to report the runaways to the police. Much of the new federal legislation would make similar increases in the availability and flexibility of shelter options.

Police Reporting: Right now, police are supposed to enter all missing persons into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database within two hours of receiving the case. In reality, that reporting doesn't always get done, making it almost impossible for law enforcement to search for missing kids across districts. This hole is a big problem in finding child prostitution victims and their pimps, since pimps will often transport girls from state to state. The new bill would strengthen reporting requirements, as well as facilitate communication between the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the National Runaway Switchboard

Indigent services program has more than doubled

Here are three good reads to help fill the enormous gap between the surface hullaballoo about the nation's education crisis generated by WFS and Education Nation and the angry mob of teachers and educators who are seething against what some are calling the "war on teachers," (and their unions) -- Dana Goldstein's piece in The Nation about the successes of union-management collaboration (here), Jonathan Gyurko's piece on what Guggenheim left out of his piece (here), and Nick Lemann's New Yorker commentary about the overheated crisis rhetoric surrounding so-called reform (here). I'm hoping that there will be more about this in the mainstream sometime soon -- sketching out not only the controversies surrounding Guggenheim's proposed solutions but also the practical and political limits of going to war against traditional schools as we now now them. You'd think that the resounding defeat of Fenty and Rhee would have made this clear, but perhaps there wasn't enough time for it to sink into the journalistic consciousness enough before the WFS media juggernaut came through. Thank you. Alexander Russo July 19, 2010 Education Week.

I've really got to stop plag... recycling these articles.