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TexasTowelie

(112,168 posts)
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 12:24 AM Feb 2017

City Attorney sues longtime SF brothel in latest effort to shutter scofflaw business

For more than six years, city officials have tried and failed to permanently shut down what they have called a scofflaw madame’s brothel at the edge of Chinatown, believed to be one of many fronting as massage parlors in San Francisco.

Now, a new tactic is being used in the hope that Queen’s Health Center and its ilk stay closed for good, the San Francisco Examiner has learned.

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera is taking civil action, asking for a temporary injunction against the alleged brothel, its owner and the owner of the building as one of the latest efforts to shut down an operation that health officials and police have failed to close in the past.

“Massage parlors operating as fronts for prostitution are a blight on our neighborhoods and put women and the community at risk,” Herrera said.

Read more: http://www.sfexaminer.com/city-attorney-sues-longtime-sf-brothel-latest-effort-shutter-scofflaw-business/

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RoadhogRidesAgain

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1. Suprising
Wed Feb 15, 2017, 01:07 AM
Feb 2017

I assume the main reason for this is that the women are victims of human trafficking? Otherwise, who gives a crap what two consenting adults do for fun.

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