Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:03 a.m.

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Fighting prostitution: Effort hampered by lack of resources

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, September 10, 2008

There is a joke going around the Fair Haven neighborhood about the prostitutes in the cars that line up every night along the Quinnipiac River.

So many prostitutes and “johns” do business along the banks of the placid waterway, Ward 14 Alderwoman Erin Sturgis-Pascale said, that the prostitutes must be charging extra for the waterfront view.

Sturgis-Pascale can make light of the prevalence of sex trafficking in her ward, but she is also one of the loudest opponents of prostitution in her community and a strong supporter of New Haven Police Department Chief James Lewis’ new...

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