Janice O'Mahony

"... homes, whether it's back with their families, in longterm foster care or ln group homes. "We are becoming increasingly convinced that juvenile prostitutes are primarily chila sex- abuse victims,"' Janice O'Mahony of the King County Department of Youth Services said Wednesday during a Washington Council on Crime and Delinquency forum. Detention is often more punitive than helpful and reinforces thc youth's ..."

"... homes, whether it's cack with their familles, in longterm foster care or in group homes. "We are becoming increasingly convinced that juvenile prostitutes are primarily child sex- abuse victims," Janlce O'Mahony of the King County Department of Youth Services said Wednesday during a Washington Council on Crime and Delinquency forum. Detention ls often more punitive than helpful and reinforces the youth's ..."

"... them off the streeto long enough or keep them from selling bodies, a youta services official sald Tuesday. "Detention ought to be used to a very limited way," sald Janlce O'Mahony, coordinator of tae county youta services department. "It should be used under court order and used as a sentence." Automatic detention of young males and females arrested as prostitutes does ..."