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EXPLOITATION Or! Tchildren,' COMMIT/Fee on the JUDICIARY If you have issues viewing or accessing this file contact us at NCJRS.gov. -~ ~- -.------- EXPLOITATION Or! tCHILDREN,' ('.t . HEARING BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON JUVENILE JUSTICE OF THE COMMIT/fEE ON THE JUDICIARY UNITED STATES SEN ATE NINETY-SEVENTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON PROBLEMS OF EXPLOITED CHILDREN NOVEMBER 5, 1981 Serial N 00 J-97 -78 lnted for the use {)f the Committee on the Judiciary ; ': , . U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE W ASmNGTON : 1982 CONTENTS OPENING STATEMENT tr Page Specter, Hon. Arlen, a U.S. Senator from the State of Pennsylvania chair- man, Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice .................................................... : .......... .. 1 CHRONOLOGICAL LIS'r OF WITNESSES COMMI'ITEE ON THE JUDICIARY Rabun, John B., manager, Exploited Child Unit, Jefferson County, Ky., De- partment of Human Services ...................................................................................... 2, 59 [97th Congress] David .................................................................................................................................. 5 STROM THURMOND, South Carolina, Chairman Sullivan, Terry, former prosecutor for the State of Illinois .................................... 17 CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware Rittet:, Father Bruce, fo~nder a~d president, Covenant House, New York City. 27 PAUL LAXALT, Nevada EDWARD M. KENNED~, ~a~s~chusetts Pregha~co, .Ronald J., VIce chaIrman, Jefferson County Task Force on Child ORRIN G. HATCH, Utah ROBERT C. BYRD, West VIrgInIa. ProstItutIon and P·')rnography ............ .... ... ......... ........ ............................................ ... 58 ROBERT DOLE, Kansas HOWARD M. METZENB~UM, OhIO Do~bs! C. Edward, chairperson, Young Lawyers Division, American Bar Asso- ALAN K. SIMPSON, Wyoming DENNIS DECONCINI, ArIZona clatIon............................................................................................................................. 87 JOHN P. EAST, North Carolina PATRICK J. LEAHY, Vermont Davidson, Howard A., director, National Legal Resource Center for Child CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, Iowa MAX BAUCUS, Montana Advocacy and Protection, American Bar Association........................................... 87 JEREMIAH DENTON, Alabama HOWELL HEFLIN, Alabama ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania ALPHABETICAL LISTING AND MATERIALS SUBMITTED VINTON DEVANE LmE, Chief Counsel David: Testimony ............................................................................................................ 2 QUENTIN CROMMELIN, Jr., Btaff Director Davidson, Howard A.: Testimony ................................................................... ::............................................. 87 Prepared statement ................................................................................................. 92 SUBCOMMITTEE ON JUVENILE JUSTICE S<?lution of the Am~ric;;m Bar Association, August 1, 1981......................... 98 0-1"""'"' ChIld Sexual ExplOItatIOn, Background and Legal Analysis," by the rh.;l a <J ARLEN SPECTER, Pennsylvania, Chairman ~American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division, Washington, D.C ... v!l<n JEREMIAH DENTON, Alabama HOWARD M. METZENBAUM, Ohio Dobbs, C. Edward: CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland EDWARD M. KENNEDY, Massachusetts Testimony........................ ... ................ ..... ....... ...... .... ............ ....... .......... ..... .......... ..... 87 Prepared statement ............................................................................. :................... 92 BRUCE A. COHEN, Chief Counsel Pregliasco, Ronald J.: Testimony ................................................................................................................. 58 (Ill Prepared statement ................................................................................................ 63 Rabun, John B.: Testimony .................................................................................................................. 2,59 cF~~;::::dtsfa1~~~~~~~~.~.~~.~.~:.~~.~~:.~~~~~~~~~~:.~~~: ..~~~~~~~~ ..~: .. ~.~.~.~.::::::: 6~f7~?{L Ritter, Father Bruce: Testimony ............................................................................... .., ................................ 27 U.S. Department of Justice Prepared statement and additional material... .................................................. 33 National Institute of Justice Sullivan, Terry: Testimony ................................................................................................................. 17 This document has been reproduced exactly .as recei~e? from the Prepared statement ..................................................................................... ,.......... 23 person or organization originating it. Points of view or opInions stat~d in this document are those of the authors and do. not nec~ssanly represent the official position or policies of the National Institute of APPENDIX Justice. Letter from Senator Arlen Specter to Hon. Willam French Smith, Attorney V General, October 30, 1981, regarding Justice Department's involvement in Permission to reproduce this ce!'1t1glliM material has been the exploitation of children, with a response ....................................................... .. 147 granted by . Prepared statement of the Department of Health and Human Services on the Pl1b] i c Domai-n------­ C. exploitation of children, with covering letter ....................................................... .. 151 n. S. S en.aL.tt;:..(ie~------­ (m) tP-7 ,;l, ~ to the National Criminai Justice Reference Service (NCJRS). Further reproduction outside of the NCJRS system requires permis­ sion of the ~wner. ------,-----------------------",-'- ~\ ii ij, i\ '\ \ I I ! EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1981 U.S. SENATE, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, SUBCOMMITTEE ON JUVENILE JUSTICE, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:45 a.m., in room 6226, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Arlen Specter (chair­ man of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senator Specter. Also present: Bruce A. Cohen, chief counsel; Mary Louise West- moreland, council. OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. ARLEN SPECTER, A U.S. SENATOR FROM THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA, CHAIRMAN, SUBCOMMIT­ TEE ON JUVENILE JUSTICE Senator SPECTER. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. We will come to order and commence this hearing of the Juvenile Justice Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judici(lry. Today we are going to be inquiring into the problems of exploited children, a problem which has grown to epidemic proportions in the United States, with more than 1 million young people running away from home, each year for a variety of reasons. The young­ sters run away because of arguments with their parents, disagree­ ments with brothers and sisters, sometimes school problems. When youngsters run away from home they may face a series of potential exploitive situations, which range from sexual exploitation to forced labor to being instrumentalities of crime and which can start the youngster on a life of crime. Runaway and homeless chil­ dren range in age from the early teens to even younger, and their exploitation is a problem, really, of tremendous significance. This subcommittee, the Juvenile Justice Subcommittee, has been active in this field in the past in connection with the Office of Ju­ venile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Certain legislative ini­ tiatives have been forthcoming over the course of the last several years and we will be renewing our efforts today to see if we can gain some additional insights into the problem; some suggestions, perhaps, regarding early detection to spot the potential runaway; to try to bring the forces of families, schools, churches or syna­ gogues to bear; to try to deal with this in some sort of an effective way; and to explore what role the Federal Government can play with seed money and programs, through the Office of Juvenile Jus­ tice: and Delinquency Prevention for example. At this time we will move right to the first witness, who is a young man, David. He will be introduced by Mr. John B. Rabun, (1) ----~ -~----~--------~. -~---------- ~- ~--~-~- -~~-- --- ------------------ 2 3 Manager of the Exploited Child Unit of the Jefferson County, Ky., trying to support him we have a situation where there has been Department for Human Services. remarkable progress. David has an especially poignant story to tell us, having had sub­ David is no longer using drugs. He is still and always wi!] be stantial problems of his own. Welcome. drug dependent. He is off the street. He is due to be released by our juvenile courts about Thanksgiving, but I should say, in all STATEMENT OF JOHN B. RABUN, MANAGER, EXPLOITED CHILD o honesty, David is unusual to this extent. One, he is drug depend­ UNIT, JEFFERSON COUNTY, KY., DEPAR'rMENT OF HUMAN ent, an "addict," if you prefer that word, whereas most child prosti­ SERVICES tutes are only into drug usage. Mr. RABUN. Thank you, Senator. We appreciate being here,. I And, second, David has a very high IQ. He is very articulate. have with me a young man we have worked with for over a year o That is not the norm and that creates a secondary problem, be­ now in Louisville. His name is David. I believe you have before you cause if you are not bright enough or articulate enough to tell the a waiver form allowing him to be present, signed by himself and appropriate authorities what is going on, it exacerbates the prob­ his mother, with the juvenile court in Louisville being informed
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