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Nov 07, 2014
Council Committee Postpones Vote On Contributory Negligence, Moves Forward With Child Sex Trafficking Bill
There’s major disagreement over something called “joint and several liability.”
Alexander Rivas, 18, has been charged with running a prostitution ring involving underage girls. Rivas, a member of the MS-13 gang, allegedly transported teenage girls who had run away from their homes into the D.C. area to work as prostitutes. A 17-year-old girl involved in the prostitution ring reported to investigators that Rivas would carry a machete, which he called “his wife,” with him when he took her to prostitution appointments. Federal prosecutors say that…