Apr 12 2008
Across the border
Last week the Associated Press reported the conviction of an El Paso man, John Dickens Armstrong, for crossing the border to Juarez to have sex with underage girls.
Engaging in sex with minors is unique as a federal crime because it’s one of the only things Americans can be prosecuted for doing on foreign shores.
Tourism is now the world’s biggest industry, and the U.S. Department of Justice reports that the biggest factor drawing children into prostitution is poverty, with children serving 100 - 1500 clients a year.
Mexican officials arrested Armstrong last April when they found him with a 15-year-old girl in a Juarez apartment.
