Researchers follow trail of sex
trafficking to Minnesota massage program
Posted By: Ribicon, 7/18/2021 4:14:44 PM
Something seemed very wrong at the American Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine. There was a locked closet with student files the registrar could not access. There were students arriving for a Chinese-language-only massage therapy program, siloed off from the rest of the classes at the Roseville campus. Students who were sent off to "internships" at local massage parlors where some of their supervisors were unlicensed, some had prostitution arrests on their record, and few bothered to fill out all the paperwork the students needed for legitimate degrees, according to the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.(Snip)A national study of sex trafficking in higher education,
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Per the study linked in the article, the American Academy of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine received $21,532 in CARES Act funding, and its prostitutes-in-training took out more than $15.6 million in federal student loans. Import foreign sexworkers and train them on the public dime. Is this a great country or what?