live in exchange for sexual favors. police said they have identified and questioned at least four girls, all asians twelve to fifteen years old, who have been living in the north houston warehouse with a vietnamese pimp since february. the girls are being treated as victims, said police sergeant amos milburn. these are really just children, he said, but theyve been exposed to a lot already.
in international news, india plans to release crocodiles in the ganges, the holy hindu river in which millions of people bathe annually, to scavenge for corpses, authorities said.
the reptiles were supposed to be of a docile species, said a senior government official, but it seems the breeders bungled and reared attack crocodiles.
the indian official who supplied this information did so only on condition of anonymity. the uttar pradesh state authorities last october released five hundred turtles.
in the ganges near varanasi to try and reduce human pollution and now plan to put in the crocodiles to devour floatin corpses dumped by hindus too poor to pay for cremation.