| 1 “Do Penance or Perish- Magdalen Asylums in Ireland” Frances Finnegan,- Oxford University Press 2004 “Whatever the extent of prostitution- and statistics vary enormously- figures for those engage in Rescue Work are more reliable. According to Maddison, the leading authority on the subject, by 1898 there were more than 300 Magdalen Institutions in England alone, collectively housing more than 6,000 inmates and employing at least 1,200 full-time Rescue staff. In addition there were huge numbers of part-time workers, district visitors, street and city missionaries, members of Refuge committees and chaplains appointed to workhouses, hospitals and Homes; all of whom were active in a Rescue campaign.….”
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| 2 “Fighting the Traffic in Young Girls- or War on the White Slave Trade” Ernest A. Bell, self- published 1910 “There are to put it mildly, hundreds- yes, thousands-- of trusting mothers in the smaller cities... of the United States who believe that their daughters are ’getting on fine’ in the city.… while the fact is that these daughters have been swept into the gulf of white slavery- the worst doom that can befall a woman!………...The first step... Ice cream parlors of the city and fruit stores combined, largely run by foreigners, are the places where scores of girls have taken their first step downward.…” See also:"White Slavery" As Metaphor- Anatomy of a Moral Panic |
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| 3 Rich Lowry, National Review January 24, 2005, “Miller’s Mission 21st-century abolitionism.” |
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| 4 Prostitution defined: in that there is much disagreement on all sides on what constitutes prostitution, I will use the legal definitions from the California Penal Code; other states' legal definitions are similar although may be worded differently. CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE SECTION 647. Every person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of disorderly conduct, a misdemeanor: (b)? Who solicits or who agrees to engage in or who engages in any act of prostitution. A person agrees to engage in an act of prostitution when, with specific intent to so engage, he or she manifests an acceptance of an offer or solicitation to so engage, regardless of whether the offer or solicitation was made by a person who also possessed the specific intent to engage in prostitution. No agreement to engage in an act of prostitution shall constitute a violation of this subdivision unless some act, in addition to the agreement, is done within this state in furtherance of the commission of an act of prostitution by the person agreeing to engage in that act. As used in this subdivision, "prostitution" includes any lewd [the touching of breasts, buttocks or genitals for the purpose of sexual gratification or arousal] act between persons for money or other consideration. 653.20 (a) "Commit prostitution" means to engage in sexual conduct for money or other consideration, but does not include sexual conduct engaged in as a part of any stage performance, play, or other entertainment open to the public. (b) "Public place" means an area open to the public, or an alley, plaza, park, driveway, or parking lot, or an automobile, whether moving or not, or a building open to the general public... (c) "Loiter" means to delay or linger without a lawful purpose for being on the property and for the purpose of committing a crime as opportunity may be discovered. 653.22. (a) It is unlawful for any person to loiter in any public place with the intent to commit prostitution. This intent is evidenced by acting in a manner and under circumstances which openly demonstrate the purpose of inducing, enticing, or soliciting prostitution, or procuring another to commit prostitution. PIMPING: 266h. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who, knowing another person is a prostitute, lives or derives support or maintenance in whole or in part from the earnings or proceeds of the person's prostitution, or from money loaned or advanced to or charged against that person by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, or who solicits or receives compensation for soliciting for the person, is guilty of pimping, a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or six years. PANDERING:266i. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who does any of the following is guilty of pandering, a felony, and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or six years: (1) Procures another person for the purpose of prostitution. (2) By promises, threats, violence, or by any device or scheme, causes, induces, persuades or encourages another person to become a prostitute. Return to article "RESCUED FOR THEIR OWN GOOD" |
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| FROM THE COALITION AGAINST TRAFFICKING WEBSITE: Philosophy Sexual exploitation is a practice by which person(s) achieve sexual gratification or financial gain or advancement through the abuse of a person's sexuality by abrogating that person's human right to dignity, equality, autonomy, and physical and mental well-being. Sexual exploitation includes sexual harassment, rape, incest, battering, pornography and prostitution. All prostitution exploits women, regardless of women's consent. (OUR TAKE ON THIS? they believe that women other than themselves are too stupid to make choices for themselves and only those educated, radical leftist feminists can make those choices for other women.......) Return to article "RESCUED FOR THEIR OWN GOOD" |
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| 5 Los Angeles Times April 24, 1986 by Mark Arax "Judge Says Law Doesn't Protect Prostitutes, Drops Rape Count" ...Pasadena Superior Court Judge Gilbert C. Alston granted his own motion last week for a finding of not guilty in the case against Daniel Zabuski, a former South Gate police jailer. In granting the motion [to dismiss]...Alston made a general statement that a working prostitute could not be the victim of a rape, even if she was forced to engage in sexual intercourse.... in an interview, Alston repeated his belief that the law did not afford prostitutes protection against rape or sodomy....'A woman who goes out on the street and makes a whore out of herself opens herself up to anybody, Alston said. 'She steps outside the protection of the law. That's a basic and fundamental legal concept...' " [It should be noted that Judge Alston was a former police officer] Return to article "RESCUED FOR THEIR OWN GOOD" |
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| 6. Canal Street Brothel: What About the Johns? May 3, 2002 NEW ORLEANS: Some of the customers at the Canal Street brothel are among the most well-heeled and well-known in New Orleans. So why aren’t they charged with the same crimes as the women named in the federal racketeering indictment? Where are the johns and when will they be charged is the question many are asking, particularly in light of a recent statement by federal prosecutors. “This case represents what I feel is one of the vilest forms of racketeering there is, and that is the exploitation of women for the sake of a buck,” U.S. Attorney Sal Perricone said....... Laurie White, defense attorney representing one of the women: I would say that the indictment sort of looks like an exploitation of women as well. I think the saddest ring of the whole thing--- we have no john charged. Fifteen people were indicted in the interstate prostitution ring. Among them not a single customer.” | ||||||||||
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| 7. LA Secret Police Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network by Mike Rothmiller and Ivan G. Goldman "Detectives would lure the sucker into a trap with a call girl....... and lots of cops had a list of call girls with whom they traded information and other favors." p91 "There was the time a black pimp by the name of Willy Cunningjam complained to [officer]? Skrah that a certain deputy chief was shaking down one of his hookers for free sex......" pg 133 "In the old days- going back to Prohibition and into the thirties and forties-- the LAPD had been a typically corrupt urban police force, probably even more corrupt than most. The town was brimming with brothels....." pg 143 |
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| 8. Los Angeles Times March, 1987 by Kim Murphy "Ruling that it is 'unrealistic to expect law enforcement officers to ferret out criminals without the help of unsavory characters, a federal appeals court has reinstated criminal charges against a suspected heroin dealer caught with the help of a prostitute acting as a government informant." | ||||||||||
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| 9. Spokane WA.(AP) 1978 "Prostitution investigators may have sex" "Police agents may engage in sex to carry out prostitution investigations as long as they don't try to trap anyone into the crime, a Spokane County District Court judge has ruled. A two- month investigation last fall, which reportedly involved spending $2,000 for two agents to engage in sex acts for evidence, did not constitute entrapment, Judge Daniel Maggs ruled... 'It may violate public morals, but personal beliefs can't be substituted for the law,' Maggs said." | ||||||||||
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| 10. Los Angeles Times May 19, 1990 Lois Timnick "'Beverly Hills madam' Elizabeth Adams was lauded for her undercover police work Friday by the same agency that arrested her on suspicion of pandering in 1988. 'She was the best informant I ever met,' veteran Los Angeles Police Detective Daniel Lott testified....'Adams had enough class not to flaunt her brothel activities and the department looked the other way because of the help she provided on numerous criminal cases.....We considered Betty as an undercover agent.... The information we gleaned from her far surpassed what she was doing..." |
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| 11. San Diego Union Sept. 30, 1990 by Joe Cantelupe, Dayna Lynn Fried "Continuing allegations of relationships between San Diego police officers and prostitutes have raised troubling questions about how the department polices itself against such improper ties...... .Did police officials turn a blind eye toward such relationships between its officers and prostitutes?....Police officers getting involved and having sex with prostitutes is hardly a new problem..... Police Chief Bob Burgreen said last week that the department is reviewing its policies to determine whether it was careful enough in ensuring that officers do not become involved [sexually] with the prostitutes they work with..... However, Burgreen said dealing with prostitutes-- especially on an informant basis-- is 'a very large part of our business' and that perhaps citizens in a largely conservative community like San Diego may have a hard time understanding that...."
I know I don’t understand how this reduces the 'sexual exploitation' of women!
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| 12. Police Corruption- A Sociological Perspective Edited by Lawrence W. Sherman 1974: ".... A precinct could be rated by the number of establishments featuring gambling and prostitution, which could be systematically assessed by the police. When Captain Alexander S. "Clubber" Williams.... was transferred to the Twenty-ninth Precinct, the city's most fashionable red-light district, he rubbed his hands together and spoke of moving up from "salt-chuck" to "tenderloin." Thus the district was christened "the Tenderloin." pg. 50-51 Return to article "RESCUED FOR THEIR OWN GOOD" | ||||||||||
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| 13. Los Angeles Times 1984 by Ted Rohrlich, Times Staff Writer “Deputy Charged With Rape at Courthouse” A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy, assigned to work as a courtroom bailiff, was charged Monday with raping a prison in the Downtown Criminal Courts Building shortly after she was sentenced for prostitution. The deputy, Kenneth Lawrence, 27, was also accused in a complaint filed by the district attorney’s office in Los Angeles Municipal Court of forcing the 23-year-old Los Angeles woman to orally copulate him. The woman, who had been arrested for prostitution March 6, reported the March 14 incident the same day to other inmates who were being returned by bus to Sybil Brand Institute following court appearances, according to a Sheriff’s Department report attached to the complaint. She then told officers at Sybil Brand. The woman said that she and several other women prisoners were being held in a fourth floor lockup at the courts building about 4 pm when Lawrence, a deputy for three years, opened the cell door. Believing that they were to be returned to Sybil Brand, all of the women started to leave. But Lawrence gestured towed his alleged victim and said, “No, just you come,” according to the report....” Return to article "RESCUED FOR THEIR OWN GOOD" |
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| 14. 11/5/1984 In Sacramento, California, Superior Court Judge Benjamin Diaz was fined $265 and placed on three years probation for soliciting a prostitute, which he said he did for laughs (Sacramento Bee, November 5, 1984 UPI). The judge was cited for soliciting a prostitute and engaging in a lewd public act. A police report said that a woman named Kasandra Daniels was seen getting into a car driven by Diaz, who had been drinking with friends at a nearby bar. A police officer said that upon following the couple into a nearby alley he saw the woman performing oral sex on Diaz. The prostitute was arrested and released on $2,000 bail. Judge Diaz was cited and released on his promise to appear at his arraignment. He plead no contest to the charges, and remained in his own courtroom and attended to his regular calendar. Daniels went to jail, which I doubt she found amusing. |
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| 15. Five Brothel-case Cops Face Arrest - Indicted In Sex-for-protection Scandal by Murray Weiss Criminal Justice Editor. New York Post. New York: Apr 27, 1999. pg. 16 “As many as six cops implicated in the scandal have been cooperating with authorities since last summer when cops arrested [Helena Ramos] and her prostitutes - who then complained that officers in uniform routinely visited her West 39th Street brothel for sex.... Ramos identified the officers who protected her operation in exchange for leniency on the prostitution charges, officials said...” Hookers: Cops Made Us Squad-car Sirens; by Murray Weiss Criminal Justice Editor. New York Post. New York: Sep 29, 1998. pg. 14 “Prosecutors for the Manhattan district attorney and internal police probers heard numerous accounts of cops in uniform being serviced inside [Ramos]' brothel on West 39th Street, in apparent exchange for not busting the 60-hooker operation. Ramos claimed she provided cops with sex for up to 15 years, but only one of the six cooperating cops has admitted ongoing sexual dalliances.” |
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| 16. Los Angeles Times Orange County Edition October 11, 1988 by Terry Pristin and Mark Landsbaum Los Angeles Times October 11, 1998 “State Inquiry Links Judges to Prostitutes - Orange County Court Targeted in Probe to Alleged Sexual Favors” By Terry Pristin and Mark Landsbaum Times Staff Writers Two Orange County municipal judges are being investigated by the state Commission on Judicial Performance for allegedly offering lenient treatment to prostitutes in exchange for sex and showing favoritism toward other women with whom they had personal relationships. The Commission is also looking into allegations that two other judges on the same court- Harbor Municipal Court, which serves Newport Beach, Irvine and Costa Mesa- attempted last year to pressure Newport Beach officials into call off a police investigations of Judges Brian R. Carter and Calvin P. Schmidt, the principal targets of the commission probe............... Court documents filed in those investigations and unsealed late last month described the incident that triggered the district attorney's investigation- the prostitution arrest in June, 1984, of Della Christine Johnson, then 24, at Griswold's Inn in Fullerton. According to Fullerton Police Sgt. Ron Rowell, Johnson told police after that arrest that she had had sex with Carter as payment for a debt incurred in court and that Carter had paid her a total of $350 for two other sexual encounters. Johnson said the chain of events through which she met Carter began when a friend told her that he knew of a judge who could help get her driver's license reinstated. Johnson identified that judge as Schmidt, court documents show. "She said that she was told that when she appeared before Judge Schmidt, he would make arrangements to have her license reinstated ... and that she would owe a debt to him... referring to an act of prostitution," Rowell testified. Johnson subsequently received a telephone call from Carter, who reminded her of her debt which was owed to Judge Schmidt," Rowell testified. "He [Carter] informed her that Judge Schmidt was not interested in collecting the debt, but that he was going to come to her residence in lieu of Judge Schmidt and collect it for him."Rowell said Johnson paid the debt by having sexual intercourse with Carter "without charge." "One You Owe Me" Johnson initially agreed to assist police in an investigation of Carter and Schmidt and permitted a telephone conversation between her and Carter to be tape recorded, Rowell said. In that conversation, court documents show, Carter referred to an upcoming encounter with Johnson, saying, "This is one you owe me." However, Johnson later refused to cooperate with the police investigation, prompting authorities to search her home. They found what they described as a list of Johnson's clients,. which included Carter's courtroom telephone number, according to court documents....... |
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| 17. Los Angeles Daily News January 29, 2004: LAPD officer indicted on sex charges By Ryan Oliver, staff writer A Los Angeles Police Department officer has been indicted based on accusations that he molested two women while responding to separate domestic violence calls, officials said Wednesday. Officer Michael Kapalungan, 31, of Pacoima pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two felony counts of sexual battery by fraud, and one misdemeanor count each of battery and sexual battery. "LAPD has zero tolerance for employees who commit crimes," said department spokesman Officer Jason Lee. "Any crime is serious, particularly for police officers." Kapalungan, a seven-year veteran of the force who worked at the LAPD's Foothill Division in the San Fernando Valley, came under suspicion shortly after July 27 when he and is partner responded to a domestic violence call, officials said. While at the residence, he led the intoxicated victim out of his partner's view. fondled her breast and groin, and then exposed himself to her, according to the District Attorney's Office. The victim was arrested and later told a court official about the assault. In response, LAPD internal affairs set up several undercover sting operations targeting Kapalungan. During one of them, Kapalungan had responded to a phony domestic violence complaint in September set up by the investigators. Kapalungan proceeded to fondle the breast of an undercover officer posing as the domestic violence victim, officials said. While interviewing her, he also pushed her down on a bed, stroked her body and sucked on her lower lip, prosecutors said. Kapalungan was relieved of his duties on Oct. 1 and booked into jail Wednesday after the indictment from the Los Angeles County grand jury was unsealed. He was later released on $95,000 bail, prosecutors said. |
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| 18. Driving While Female- Police are out of control: http://www.policeaccountability.org/drivingfemale.htm "In April, 2002 a Virginia state trooper was indicted for soliciting sex from female drivers in return for dropping traffic charges against them. Just one week earlier a San Bernardino, California police officer was charged with sexually assaulting or raping 11 women while on duty. Also in March, 2002 a suburban Philadelphia police officer was convicted of raping an intoxicated woman while on duty and in uniform. " "These and numerous other cases highlight a national problem of "driving while female" where police officers use their authority, often in traffic stops, to harass or assault women drivers, or to take advantage of women who have been stopped for legitimate violations." "The 'driving while female' problem became apparent in early 2001 in a series of cases on Long Island, New York. On New Year's Day 2001, a Suffolk County (NY)? police officer stopped a female driver for an alleged traffic violation and instead of issuing hera traffic ticket forced her to strip and walk home wearing only her underpants." Reports of "driving while female" abuses are found in every part of the country, and the level of abuse runs the gamut from harassment to sexual assault and even murder: * In 2000, a Houston, Tex., police officer was convicted and sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sexual assault of a female driver. * A Milwaukee police officer was sentenced to eight years in prison in 1998 for sexually assaulting a female driver. * In 1996, a Chicago police officer was sentenced to four years in prison for fondling women during traffic stops. * And in perhaps the most grotesque case of all, Cara Knott was murdered in 1986 by a predatory California Highway Patrol officer who stopped her for a traffic violation. "These are not isolated incidents. A review of national print media from 1990 to 2001 revealed literally hundreds of allegations of "driving while female" abuses, and an average of over a dozen substantiated cases each year." The estimate cited in this report is conservative in two ways. First, it only includes abuses that were substantiated by the criminal justice system (i.e., the officer was indicted,, found guilty, etc.). Second, it defines "cases" by the number of victims. Many officers were charged with several criminal counts associated with each victim. Additionally, there is good reason to believe that these cases represent only the tip of the iceberg. Many victims do not come forward because of humiliation and fear of reprisal. And some police departments do not accept and investigate complaints from many victims who do come forward." And when the victim is a prostitute, she is even less likely to be believed and will not file a complaint because she will never get any justice from the cops or the courts. (iswface comments) |
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| 20. May 1994: LA TIMES - A Long Beach police officer must stand trial for allegedly forcing a professed prostitute to perform sexual acts under the threat of arrest, a judge ruled Tuesday. Municipal Judge Elva Soper found that there was enough evidence to order Bryon Ellsberry to stand trail on single counts of oral copulation under color of authority and rape by threat to arrest. Soper dropped a third count of attempted oral copulation under color of authority. Ellsberry was charged last month for acts that allegedly occurred while he was on duty. A self- described prostitute testified that she performed oral copulation on Ellsberry and had sexual intercourse with hime--- without monetary compensation-- after he threatened to arrest her for unpaid warrants. She then set up a sting with Internal Affairs officers and, wearing an electronic device, agfreed to perform a sexual act under threat of arrest. The 29-year-old officer’s attorney contends that his client was set up. Arraignment is scheduled in Superior Court for June 14 (1994)” January 18, 1995 Long Beach Officer Gets Probation LA TIMES: A Long Beach police officer who admitted forcing a prostitute to have sex with him in his patrol car was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation. In addition, Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan ordered Bryon Ellsberry to perform 1,500 hours of community service on a Caltrans work crew and to pay a $1,000 fine. Prosecutors had asked Tynan to sentence Ellsberry to the maximum term of four years in prison. Ellseberry, who turned 30 on Tuesday, pleaded guilty on Dec. 16 to a charge of sexual battery. At a preliminary hearing last spring, a self- described prostitute testified that Ellsberry picked her up on a Long Beach street corner and threatened to arrest her if she didn’t “barter” with him. The woman said she interpreted the uniformed officer’s statement to mean that she must perform sexual acts of she would go to jail. The officer was caught in an undercover operation after the March 1 incident. Internal affairs officers set up a “sting,” wiring the woman with an electronic device. Ellsberry again threatened her if she did not comply with his sexual demands and he was arrested according to testimony.” [You can bet the “self- described” prostitute spent time behind bars for being the victim of sexual exploitation--- why didn’t the exploiter/ rapist do any time? Because he was a cop!!!] |
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| 21. Newsday Feb. 1, 1991 Bronx Cop Charged in Rape by David Kocieniewski and Michael H. Cottman, Staff Writers “A police officer arrested yesterday on charges of raping a Bronx prostitute is being investigated in connection with the slaying of another prostitute last year, police sources said. Officer Kevin Burke, 31.... was suspended without pay yesterday and was awaiting arraignment in the State Supreme Court in the Bronx, according to Steve Reed, a spokesman for the Bronx district attorney’s office. Burke, who was off duty at the time of the incident, has been on restricted duty since 1988 because of psychiatric problems and was working at a desk job, according to Sgt. Peter Sweeney, a police spokesman. Burke joined the department in 1982 and was assigned to the 45th Precinct in the Bronx. Sources familiar with the case said Burke allegedly made comments while assaulting the victim yesterday that may tie him to the strangulation of a prostitute in the Bronx last year. The slaying occurred near the scene of yesterday’s alleged rape.......” |
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| 22. Los Angeles Times 3-30- 1988 Death Urged for Deputy Who Killed Two (Bakersfield) (Associated Press) “A jury recommended Tuesday that a former Kern County sheriff’s deputy die in the gas chamber for the murder of two prostitutes. A Kern County Superior Court jury agreed on the death penalty after deliberating nearly a day in the penalty phase of David Keith Roger’s trial. Rogers showed little emotion as the verdict was read, but his wife, Jo, visibly shook as she struggled for composure in the courtroom gallery. Formal sentencing before Judge Gerald K. Davis is scheduled for April 26. On March 16, the jury found Rogers guilty of first degree murder in the shooting death of Tracie Joanna Clark, 15, whose body was found Feb. 8, 1987. The jury had also found Rogers guilty of second -degree murder in the February 21, 1986 shooting of 21 year old Jeanine Benetende. Clark, who was pregnant at the time of her death, was found by rabbit hunters in the Arvin-Edison Canal near the spot where Benetende’s body was found a year earlier. Detectives have said that Rogers admitted shooting Clark in an argument over the amount due for a sex act. Rogers has claimed that he did not kill Benetende, but ballistics tests show both women were shot with the same gun.” |
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| 23. Sheriff's deputy pleads innocent- (AP) September 8, 2004 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A 36-year-old sheriff's deputy pleaded innocent Tuesday to charges that he sexually assaulted two women, including one under age 18, officials said. The Los Angeles County Grand Jury returned an indictment Aug. 20 accusing Juan-Antonio E. Jimenez of two counts of sexual penetration by a foreign object under threat of authority, one count of sexual penetration by a foreign object against a person under 18, and one count of filing a false report. The indictment was unsealed Tuesday when Jimenez surrendered in Superior Court and was arraigned, said Deputy District Attorney Elizabeth Munisoglu. Jimenez was released on his own recognizance and was scheduled to return to Judge David S. Wesley's courtroom Sept. 22 for a pretrial conference. |
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| 24. San Diego Tribune September 30, 1990 by Staff Writers Jim Okerblom, Joe Cantlupe, J. Stryker Meyer and Dayna Lynn Fried “Since June 1985 when the body of prostitute and police informant Donna Gentile was found, 42 women, most of them street prostitutes and drug addicts, have been found murdered, their bodies dumped around the county......the task force is investigating the possibility that one or more police officers may be involved in one or more of the murders,” chief deputy district attorney Brian Michaels said recently....... Gentile was killed in June 1985, just months after she testified about her relationshop with two officers. One, Larry Avrech, was fired and the other, Carl Black, was temporarily demoted from lieutenant to sergeant.... Gentile’s body was found with gravel stuffed in her mouth, leading investigators to suspect she may have been killed because she talked too much.....” | ||||||||||
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| 25. People v.. Almodovar, Dec. 9. 1985 L.A.S.C. No. A-394853 pg. 19, l. 29- 38, "Nevertheless, in terms of impact upon the victim, whereas a robbery may have a traumatic effect on the victim lasting weeks or months, pandering can lead its victim to a lifetime of shame and degradation, robbing her of her bodily integrity, personal privacy, self- respect and reputation. Whereas rape is accomplished by one act of force, pandering can cause a woman to be pressured into an endless series of acts of indiscriminate sexual intercourse which progressively rape her spirit, character and self image. Unlike rape, pandering is a cold-blooded, calculating, profit seeking criminal enterprise. It is clearly a 'vicious practice.' [Unless you happen to be a chief of police or a vice cop and then it is no big deal!!! see footnotes 26 and 27 for more on this]. And of course, if you are a priest and have sex with young boys, no harm- no foul- because apparently indiscriminate sex only rapes the spirit, character and self image of women- who are likely to faint at the sight of a penis which doesn't belong to her husband, and such a sight will damage her delicate sensibilities! | ||||||||||
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| 26. (API)Ashbury Park Press (New Jersey) 1/28/2004 Police Chief Charged With Promoting Prostitution MAPLE SHADE -- Longtime Runnemede Police Chief James M. Leason was charged with misconduct in office after authorities raided an apartment where a prostitution ring was allegedly operating. Leason, 56, also was charged with promoting prostitution after being arrested Monday, Burlington County authorities said. He was later freed after posting $5,000 bail and could face 15 years in prison if convicted on both charges. Runnemede Mayor Frank C. Hartman Sr. announced yesterday that Leason, who was off-duty when he was arrested, would be suspended without pay. "The safety of the residents will not be affected by this incident," Hartman said in a written statement. Investigators said Leason -- a former president of the Camden County Police Chiefs Association who has led the Runnemede force for many years -- was a frequent visitor to the Maple Shade apartment, which had been under surveillance since July. Leason and Dolores Crozier, 66, who allegedly ran the prostitution ring, were among six people charged in the case. |
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| 27. May 17, 1984- San Francisco Chronicle: Robert Popp and Randy Shilts “The woman who allegedly performed a sex act on a cadet at a Police graduation party is scheduled to testify this morning before a criminal grand jury, The Chronicle learned. Meanwhile one of six San Francisco police officers suspended in connection with the incident was reinstated yesterday. After a brief suspension Sergeant Layne Amiot, who was acting lieutenant in charge of Northern Station the night of the party, was returned to duty yesterday evening in the departments technical services division at the Hall of Justice. The San Francisco criminal grand jury has so far subpoenaed two women in the case, including the woman allegedly hired by two vice officers to orally copulate a recruit during the rowdy Police Academy graduation party at the Rathskeller restaurant on April 20, sources close to the investigation said. A friend of the woman also has been subpoenaed, they said. Although the woman had indicated that she would refuse to testify on the grounds that she might incriminate herself, sources close to the case expect the district attorney's office to seek immunity from prosecution, clearing the way for her testimony. Law enforcement sources said the 22-year-old woman, who has used at least two names, has been arrested four times for prostitution and once for obstructing a sidewalk, One prostitution charge is pending, and the other four charges were dismissed. All but one of the arrests occurred this year. The woman's attorney, Peter Keane of the public defender's office, has notified Chief Con Murphy "out of an abundance of caution" that he is concerned for the woman's safety, citing "rumors of death threats that have been made against'' her. 'Amiot, the suspended officer returned to duty, did not attend the gathering at the Rathskeller restaurant, but he was accused of covering up for an officer who tended bar at the party and then amended his time card. Acting Police Chief George Eimil held an hour long hearing into the charges on Monday. After conferring with Murphy, he issued a statement yesterday in Murphy's name saying "no involvement" in the party incident could be attributed to Amiot. The statement said questions regarding Amiot's supervisory performance would be further investigated by the department's management control unit. Amiot was not available for comment yesterday, but Al Casciato, president of the Police Officers Association, said he was ''very, very pleased'' with the chief's decision. Casciato called it "a step in the right direction," and said of Amiot, "I know he feels very happy and vindicated.” May 18, 1984- San Francisco Chronicle- “The woman reputed to have performed a sex act on a San Francisco police cadet was arrested early yesterday on prostitution charges, prompting an unprecedented order from police brass. Acting San Francisco Police Chief George Eimil directed all officers yesterday to exercise caution when dealing with the woman in the future to avoid the appearance of harassment. [if the two men left, why was this woman arrested for prostitution when there was no one to engage in prostitution with? If the other two women were not also arrested, why was she? As if we have to ask!] |
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| 28. In the book "Police Corruption- A Sociological Perspective" edited by Lawrence W. Sherman (1974)?; Introduction toward a sociological theory of police corruption, Sherman writes, "Part of the dilemma may be resolved by considering those universal aspects of police work that make corruption possible or likely.....Discretion. The most important constant is the extraordinary discretion inherent in police work. The officer's exercise of the discretion to arrest someone or not and his choice of the specific charge has numerous bases, both legitimate and illegitimate. It is the legitimate bases that allow an officer to cover up any illegitimate basis for his discretion, particularly the choice not to make an arrest." [pg 12]?. And what 'crime' but prostitution could offer an officer more latitude in discretion of whether or not to arrest a woman who is willingly plying her trade? "The Integrity of the European Police in 1914," Raymond P. Fosdick describes how "....wherever the control of prostitution by regulation has been attempted it has been accompanied, if not by open corruption, at least by grave suspicions that such corruption exists.... " [pg. 64-65]?. And from a high official of Scotland Yard, "we cannot guarantee the integrity of the police against the vicious influences arising from unenforceable laws" [pg. 68] |
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| PIMP: definition (California Penal Code): 266h. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), any person who, knowing another person is a prostitute, lives or derives support or maintenance in whole or in part from the earnings or proceeds of the person's prostitution, or from money loaned or advanced to or charged against that person by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, or who solicits or receives compensation for soliciting for the person, is guilty of pimping, a felony, and shall be punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or six years. (b) Any person who, knowing another person is a prostitute, lives or derives support or maintenance in whole or in part from the earnings or proceeds of the person's prostitution, or from money loaned or advanced to or charged against that person by any keeper or manager or inmate of a house or other place where prostitution is practiced or allowed, or who solicits or receives compensation for soliciting for the person, when the prostitute is a minor, is guilty of pimping a minor, a felony, and shall be punishable as follows: (1) If the person engaged in prostitution is a minor over the age of 16 years, the offense is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, four, or six years. (2) If the person engaged in prostitution is under 16 years of age, the offense is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years. This means that a prostitute cannot legally pay his/her bills if the recipient of his/her money knows that he/she is a prostitute... and therein lies the problem... for example, the police often use this law to threaten and intimidate the landlord of the home or apartment where the prostitute lives (not necessarily where he/she works). Once the police have told the landlord that their tenant is a prostitute, the landlord now knows he or she is renting to a prostitute and this law can be applied to them if they continue taking rent money from the prostitute. The police also use this law to threaten and intimidate the prostitute, telling him/her that if he/she doesn't cooperate with the police (and give them sex, money or information) they will use the pimping law against the prostitute's landlord and get him/her evicted. The police also threaten to use this law against any other person to whom the prostitute owes or pays money, including the prostitute's children, family members, friends, boyfriend, husband, and anyone else who might know that she works as a prostitute (escort, call girl, bar girl or however else she does her sex work). Of course, if the prostitute works for someone else and not for him or herself, anyone to whom he/she gives a percentage of earnings is also under the law a pimp. Heidi Fleiss was a pimp. The Mayflower Madam, Sydney Biddle Barrows, was a pimp. In other businesses the managers, agents or owners of the business are entitled to a percentage or compensation from their employee for the job they do in arranging work for their employee who gets paid directly from the customer/ client. The agents and managers of athletes and actors get well compensated for their work- but no one views these agents or managers as "leeches" who should be arrested and incarcerated! Many people think that a "pimp" is the worst person in the world because he or she takes money from a prostitute- but what does the prostitute think? Why aren't we asked about the people in our lives to whom we might give money? It is our money, so why aren't we, as grown adults, allowed to spend our money the way we see fit? Why are we treated like children and assumed to be too stupid to control our own finances? Why does the law not make a distinction between those to whom we willingly give our hard-earned money and those who take it from us without our consent? Why is the government not also considered a "pimp" when we are fined and forced to pay "restitution" to the state - money that the cops and courts know is being earned through our sex work? Additionally, why does anyone presume to dictate to us with whom we can or cannot have relationships? There are many non-prostitute women who become involved with men who are less than honorable or who are outright scum-bags. There are no laws against this and no one thinks it is justifiable to (a) arrest and incarcerate the scum bag unless and until he commits a crime, or (b) arrest and incarcerate the woman for being involved with someone who is not good for her. If the man or woman with whom an adult prostitute is involved uses force, the threat of force, fraud or coercion in their relationship, the adult prostitute should have the right to file a complaint against the individual just as a victim of domestic violence can- and also have the reasonable expectation that the government (the police) will not come into one's home or interfere with ones' relationship unless or until the adult prostitute (and not society) feels a need to call for help. When people say "how can we know when the person is a victim and when they are not? How can the police tell the difference" I don't know which is scarier- the thought that these people believe that the police are so incompetent that they are not able to make a distinction between someone who is a victim and someone who is not, or the thought that these people want to leave my fate/freedom in the hands of someone who really is so incompetent? How do the police tell the difference between the victim of rape and adults who engage in consensual sex? How do they tell the difference between a wife who is the victim of domestic violence and one who, with her husband, voluntarily participates in the sexual fantasy activities known as "B&D" and "S&M"? Should the police go rushing into this couple's home without knowing that the woman is actually a victim? What if they have prior knowledge that this couple is going to consensually engage in the practice of tying each other up and using instruments of torture (a whip, a paddle, etc.) on each other? Would this justify an unannounced visit from the police? Or the arrest and incarceration of the person "inflicting" the pain upon the other? For no other relationship in which adult human beings enter, other than prostitution, does the government presume that the adult female may be incapable of knowing what is best for her- not marriage, not employment, not sex- unless one is getting paid for it. Then it is called "slavery" regardless of the prostitute's age or willingness to engage in sex work! |
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| Who are the "johns" of prostitutes? [First of all, "johns" is a derogatory term mostly used by cops and the media (and of course the radical feminists and their bed-partners, religious conservatives) to denote their disdain for the men, women and couples who use the services of prostitutes. Many sex workers proudly refer to these people as "clients" or "customers" because we view what we do as a profession and think of our clients in a positive way- they pay our bills, after all!]
While many people think of the married man who is oversexed and under-serviced at home as the quintessential client, there are just as many unmarried men who use our services. Men who are widowed, divorced, disabled, socially inept- there are so many reasons that men who are not otherwise able to find a sex partner use our services: One of my clients was seriously injured in an auto accident at the age of 18. Thereafter he was confined to a wheelchair and suffered not only paralysis of his legs and the inability to use his hands, but epilepsy as well, making it almost impossible for him to find a (non-commercial) companion. He could not go out on "regular" dates with women, and just finding women who would date him at all was impossible. As a result of his accident, his speech was slurred and difficult to understand and non-prostitute women did not have the patience to listen to him. When he first called me, I thought someone was playing a practical joke on me because his voice was so damaged and strained. To engage in sex, first I had to pull him out of his wheelchair and get him into bed. His hands were useless, so I had to do all the positioning. After sex, I had to clean him up and get him back into his chair. He had someone who otherwise took care of him- drove him around, prepared his meals and put him to bed, and the government paid for those services! It is so tragic to think that the radical leftist feminists, legislators and religious conservatives think he is a "venal criminal" and should be incarcerated for hiring me to provide him what little pleasure he has in his life! Another client was widowed at the age of 70, his wife and love of 50 years a victim of lung cancer. He desperately needed companionship- someone who would listen to him reminisce about his wife and their life together. As a very eligible bachelor, do you think women who were interested in his husband potential were at all interested in hearing about the woman he still loved and missed terribly? And women his age were not interested in sexual experimentation (trying oral sex)- and probably were not interested in sex whatsoever- which left him without a sex partner altogether unless he hired a professional. As recent research shows, the longer we maintain an active sex life, the longer we may live- because sex does reduce stress and increases our vitality. Should a vital older adult male who has lost his partner be condemned to spending the rest of his life without sex because the only way he can have a sex life is to hire someone, and if he does so, he becomes a criminal and faces arrest and incarceration? A wealthy man who was still recovering from the hurt and pain of a messy divorce in which the wife received far more of his worldly goods than he did (as we say, she took him to the cleaners...), was not ready to commence dating so soon after the divorce. His only option was to hire professionals who would not scheme and plot their way into a marriage in which their goal was to secure their financial future. Unfortunately for him, if he had encountered a woman (non-professional) who feigned love but was only interested in marrying him for his money, she would not be breaking the law- because (adult) marriage for any reason- including financial security- is not illegal. No matter how long the marriage lasted or what false pretenses it was based on, the woman would end up with some or most of his money and he would end up with another broken heart. A marriage for financial gain and no matter what the woman's intention is considered acceptable as part of the whole "family values" tradition and is condoned by society as the proper way for him to have access to a sex partner, with no guarantee that his wife will actually engage in sex with him, and no guarantee that she won't legally take all his money when she is tired of pretending to love him. Then there was the case of a man named Fred Cherry. Mr. Cherry passed away in 2003 at the age of 78- a contrary, cantankerous and difficult individual who had never been in any sexual relationship other than a commercial one precisely because no woman would want to be with him who was not being financially compensated for her time. At least Mr. Cherry had the good sense to realize that he was socially inept and was not husband material. He was a virgin until his early thirties despite trying every thing to find himself a partner. When he realized he could not win the affections of a woman because he lacked charisma and charm, and he was not willing to alter his personality to fit the idealized male, he hired a prostitute. As he often joked- it was either that or die a virgin. Thereafter, professional sex care providers were his sole companions. If he found one who treated him well, he fell in love and remained with the same sex worker for years and years- or as long as she didn't tire of his endless bad jokes and chronic unkempt appearance. Fred realized that the situation for those who provided him pleasure was unfair- they were subject to arrest and incarceration while men like him who hired prostitutes would usually never be at risk. And he often made the point that if he were married and the woman he hired had only him for a client, she would be considered a "mistress" and not a criminal. After all, that's what Donald Trump did and neither he nor the woman (not his wife) he paid for companionship were considered criminals because she only had one client- Donald Trump. Fred was so upset with this unjust situation that he spent his entire adult life- until his death- trying to get himself arrested so he could take the case to the Supreme Court. He felt that if the Supreme Court could declare that it is not the government's business to know that two consenting adult males were having sex in private, then it certainly isn't the government's business if two consenting adults of any gender were having sex- for money- in private. Certainly this was a concern of Justice Scalia when the Lawrence V. Texas case was decided on June 26, 2003. He rightfully realized that if the government has no place deciding the morality of gays, it has no place invading the privacy of any other consenting adults- no matter the nature of the activity (commercial or non-commercial). Justice Sandra Day O'Connor stated it so well when she said "A law branding one class of persons as criminal solely based on the state's moral disapproval of that class and the conduct associated with that class runs contrary to the values of the Constitution and the Equal Protection Clause, under any standard of review." |
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