The investigation began when one of the victims was arrested for prostitution by Hartford Police. The women involved were all from out of state.

Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution

Young girls and women, bought and sold, first to work in prostitution. That's slavery. We choose to believe that they are prostitutes and we don't look into it.

The police have given my name to a lot of women. I have received several calls from women who were videotaped, who say their anger and frustration is not with Hooters, but with Mr. Aponte.

The obscenities of this country are not girls like you. It is the poverty which is obscene, and the criminal irresponsibility of the leaders who make this poverty a deadening reality. The obscenities in this country are the places of the rich, the new hotels made at the expense of the people, the hospitals where the poor die when they get sick because they don't have the money either for medicines or services. It is only in this light that the real definition of obscenity should be made.

I'm looking forward to working with the professional men and women of the Adrian Police Department.