By Marie Szaniszlo, Boston Herald
January 30, 2019 at 8:03 am

Representatives of more than 30 agencies spanning disciplines including law enforcement, medical and mental-health care, and education met at the Children’s Advocacy Center in Brighton to sign a new memorandum of understanding outlining their responsibilities as members of Support to End Exploitation Now and underscoring their primary ethos: to treat exploited youngsters as victims, rather than criminals.

“In the … years since SEEN’s inception here at the Children’s Advocacy Center of Suffolk County, not one juvenile in Boston, Chelsea, Revere or Winthrop has been arrested or charged with a prostitution offense,” Rollins told the group. The memorandum of understanding is “a how-to guide for other jurisdictions contemplating a modern approach to an age-old problem.”

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