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April 27, 2012

Secret Service Probes New Prostitution Claims; Sex Worker Accuses U.S. Staffers of Assault in Brazil 
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The Secret Service is investigating reports that agents hired
prostitutes in El Salvador a year before a similar scandal broke out in
Colombia this month. Secret Service agents reportedly got drunk at a
strip club in San Salvador, paid for sexual acts and brought escorts to
their rooms, bragging that they “did this all the time.” The alleged
incident happened in 2011 just days before President Obama arrived for a
state visit. Secret Service agents and U.S. military personnel were
reportedly both involved in a prostitution scandal earlier this month
that overshadowed Obama’s visit to Colombia. Meanwhile in Brazil, a
former sex worker says she plans to sue five U.S. embassy personnel for
reportedly assaulting her outside a strip club last year. Romilda
Aparecida Ferreira said she was badly injured after she was thrown out
of an embassy van and run over.

Romilda Aparecida Ferreira: "They grabbed me by the waist and threw me
out of the van. That was when I tried to get up and then I felt my leg
burning because I had fallen under the van and one of the tires ran over
me. They left me there and drove off."

 

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