Staff Photo by Matt Stone. Sex traffickers are exploiting a loophole in Massachusetts law by setting up prostitution dens under the guise of massage parlors like the ones busted last week in Plymouth, authorities tell the Herald. Since , the DPL investigator overseeing massage licenses has assisted in more than police busts at unregulated bodywork businesses operating as houses of prostitution, according to Borstel.
That includes the June 17 raids at three Plymouth parlors and the arrest of 10 people, seven of them women β all Chinese nationals between the ages of 40 and 51 in the U. Cruz declared the raid a case of human trafficking and three men, including the vice chairman of the Plymouth Airport Commission, were charged with trafficking of a person for sexual servitude. Illegal massage parlors are one of the main areas that human traffickers use to operate, said David Hall, special agent in charge at the Boston field office for the U.
Brian Miller, head of the trafficking unit for Boston Police. Storefront prostitution is big business for some organized crime networks, according to Ziba Cranmer, executive director of Demand Abolition, a Cambridge-based group battling sex trafficking. Show Caption. By Erin Smith. More in News.
