Madam warns against brothels

By Melanie Alcock
Updated November 5 2012 - 11:44am, first published June 17 2003 - 2:00pm
ESCAPE PLEA: Former prostitute and brothel madam Linda Watson will speak at a public meeting in Hobart tonight.
ESCAPE PLEA: Former prostitute and brothel madam Linda Watson will speak at a public meeting in Hobart tonight.

Linda Watson, who in 1999 founded the Perth-based House Of Hope dedicated to rehabilitating prostitutes, said in Hobart yesterday that prostitution had been out of control in Victoria and NSW since brothels were legalised.

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