{"id":57320,"date":"2016-11-20T15:21:40","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T19:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=57320"},"modified":"2016-11-20T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T19:25:16","slug":"57320","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=57320","title":{"rendered":"Why are pizza parlors becoming sex parlors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h2>Dojo Pizza raided in alleged human trafficking ring<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div>KMOV.com<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOV.com) &#8212; Federal agents, along with officers with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, raided Dojo\u00a0Pizza on Morganford Road in connection with an alleged human trafficking ring Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Additional Links<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmov.com\/story\/31671955\/owner-of-dojo-pizza-accused-of-making-child-porn\">Owner of Dojo Pizza accused of making child porn<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kmov.com\/story\/31276853\/dojo-pizza-owner-speaks-out-against-human-trafficking-allegations\">Dojo Pizza owner speaks out against human trafficking allegations<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Police on the scene say seven girls\u00a0under the age of 17 were found &#8220;housed&#8217; in the establishment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we witnessed was them\u00a0kicking down doors of the church and everything, said Cleven James.&#8221;This supposed to be Dojo\u00a0\u00a0and a pizza joint, at the same time the community trusted that their kids go here. Parents drop them off, like a baby siting think or whatever. But they leave their kids here and to learn karate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dojo Pizza, located in St. Louis&#8217; Bevo Mill neighborhood,\u00a0also offers Karate and self defense classes, as well as dance lessons, their <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.li\/o\/cy4Y8\/www.dojopizza.com\/about\">website <\/a>states.\u00a0They are listed as a Non For Profit Company.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s real shocking because the man, he&#8217;s been there for three to four years,&#8221; said Helen David, a business owner in the area. &#8220;The intent was that he was keeping kids out of trouble and he did karate. They did dance. They sold pizza. I bought pizza from him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-20-at-2.24.46-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-57326\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-20-at-2.24.46-PM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-20-at-2-24-46-pm\" width=\"513\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-20-at-2.24.46-PM.png 513w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-20-at-2.24.46-PM-300x113.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 513px) 100vw, 513px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I would say it&#8217;s very popular with kids,&#8221; one resident near Dojo Pizza said. &#8220;I\u00a0noticed girls there dressed very comfortably, booty shorts, short shorts, pajama pants, and sleeping shorts.&#8221; One resident even claims to have heard screaming coming from inside the building saying it happened about a month ago and\u00a0sounded like two girls shouting &#8220;help me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No charges have been filed, but News 4 crews on scene saw one person being taken into custody.\u00a0No other information was made immediately available.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.li\/cy4Y8#selection-1469.17-1469.21\">http:\/\/archive.li\/cy4Y8#selection-1469.17-1469.21<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dojo Pizza raided in alleged human trafficking ring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}