A city comes to grip with teen prostitution

Oakland Tribune April 21, 2008

“…Police refer these arrests to Sharmin Eshraghi Bock, Alameda County’s assistant district attorney for human expoitation and trafficking. Bock said her caseload is huge. “We have an epidemic going on here,” Bock said. Bock couldn’t provide exact numbers, but she said she now parcels out some cases to other attorneysin the district attorney’s office. A decade ago, she said, her unit didn’t even exist.”