Teens say suspect their pimp
Expert says up to 600 children work city streets nightly
By HARVEY RICE
Houston Chronicle
Sept. 21, 2006

Two teenagers testifying in a child sex-trafficking trial are like hundreds of child prostitutes working the Houston streets in a struggle for survival, an expert on child prostitution said Wednesday.

The children often willingly become prostitutes because they are fending for themselves on the streets, are abandoned by adults, and have no other way to feed themselves, said Sam Quattrochi, superintendent of the Letot Center in Dallas. the rest