Hookers get harassment hotline

TORONTO – Hookers will get a hotline starting Thursday.

The Committee Against Street Harassment, a group seeking to remove prostitution from the Criminal Code, will operate the hotline between 8 p.m. and 4 a.m. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday nights.

Lorenne Clark, associate professor in the department of philosophy and the centre of criminology at the University of Toronto, said yesterday that prostitutes need help when they are arrested.

She said CASH is neither for nor against prostitution.