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Article says the website was shut down by police ? The website is still up and running.
IP addresses are always recorded on a the web site server. It's a public site and the police can't do anything with it. It would be a complete waste of their time. It's not illegal to visit such sites if they don't contain stuff like child porn.
$280,000 a year, or $767 a day, assuming it is possible to work that often, considering that they are apparently moved frequently between hotels. Pretty good for a person with her teeth knocked out. Where do they find all those clients who don't care how their supposed service providers look like?
We hear of these estimates of thousands being locked up in hotel rooms and forced 15 times a day to have sex against their will.
Me smells a bit of exaggeration... or conflation.
If there were thousands out there locked up in hotel rooms, how come the police have been so unsuccessful in finding them? There was a coordinated police raid on suspected prostitutes based on ads posted on various media. The operation lasted a full month, but managed to rescue only a handful of under-aged persons throughout Canada. All they found were mature women who told them to get lost., that they didn't need rescuing.
The figure of 90% in the radio-canada article, about the proportion of the workers who were there voluntarily, corroborates the findings of Madame Justice Himel of the Ontario Superior Court, in her judgement in favour of Bedford, that subsequently went up to the Supreme Court, invalidating certain prostitution laws in the Criminal Code.
The article in the Niagarathisweek reeks of conflation and exaggeration just reading it, as much of its assertions are nonsense: that a person with knocked out teeth can actually rack up annual revenues of $280,000. Just another naive journalist who was born yesterday.
Judge Himel swiftly threw out testimony by various radical feminist activists posing as scholars, that contained hearsay, innuendo and opinion rather than actual facts. It goes on all the time.
"The average age when most girls are trafficked into prostitution is 14"
I can imagine that many girls who are 16-17 years old are lured into the industry and trafficked. So if the age of 14 is an average, that means that an equal number of 11 year old girls are being trafficked as 17 year olds.
Conflation Alert!
I can imagine that many girls who are 16-17 years old are lured into the industry and trafficked. So if the age of 14 is an average, that means that an equal number of 11 year old girls are being trafficked as 17 year olds.
Conflation Alert!
WINNIPEG—A Winnipeg man has been convicted of running an escort agency in which young girls were given drugs and alcohol and sold for sex.
Darrell Ackman, who called himself “MrJetz TV” on YouTube, had pleaded not guilty to 14 charges that included counts of living off the avails of prostitution and sexual assault.
Jurors in Ackman’s trial, that began earlier this year, returned Tuesday night with a guilty verdict on all charges.
Court heard police started investigating the 46-year-old in the summer of 2012 after spotting many of his self-promotional videos on YouTube, along with some online ads.
He was arrested when he offered the sexual services of two teenage girls to an officer who was part of an undercover police operation.
Ackman made a brief foray into provincial politics when he ran as an independent candidate in the September 2012 byelection in the Fort Whyte constituency, but he garnered just 18 votes.
Seven alleged victims came forward, with the youngest just 14 at the time. The oldest was 22. Court was told two of the teens have died since Ackman was arrested in 2012.
Their testimony was presented in the form of videotaped interviews with police conducted prior to their deaths.
A key question for jurors was whether they believed Ackman knew some of the girls were underage, or whether he took steps to verify their ages. Ackman claimed he was the true victim of a malicious campaign against him by police and justice officials.
A search warrant executed at his home following his arrest led to the seizure of computer and phone equipment, from which several explicit sexual videos were seized.
Some of them depicted the alleged victims in explicit sexual acts with Ackman and were played for jurors during the trial.
Jurors heard final arguments last week and began weighing the evidence Tuesday afternoon.
Ackman acted as his own lawyer during his trial. Sentencing has not yet taken place.
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-prostitution-ring-involving-young-teens.html
Darrell Ackman, who called himself “MrJetz TV” on YouTube, had pleaded not guilty to 14 charges that included counts of living off the avails of prostitution and sexual assault.
Jurors in Ackman’s trial, that began earlier this year, returned Tuesday night with a guilty verdict on all charges.
Court heard police started investigating the 46-year-old in the summer of 2012 after spotting many of his self-promotional videos on YouTube, along with some online ads.
He was arrested when he offered the sexual services of two teenage girls to an officer who was part of an undercover police operation.
Ackman made a brief foray into provincial politics when he ran as an independent candidate in the September 2012 byelection in the Fort Whyte constituency, but he garnered just 18 votes.
Seven alleged victims came forward, with the youngest just 14 at the time. The oldest was 22. Court was told two of the teens have died since Ackman was arrested in 2012.
Their testimony was presented in the form of videotaped interviews with police conducted prior to their deaths.
A key question for jurors was whether they believed Ackman knew some of the girls were underage, or whether he took steps to verify their ages. Ackman claimed he was the true victim of a malicious campaign against him by police and justice officials.
A search warrant executed at his home following his arrest led to the seizure of computer and phone equipment, from which several explicit sexual videos were seized.
Some of them depicted the alleged victims in explicit sexual acts with Ackman and were played for jurors during the trial.
Jurors heard final arguments last week and began weighing the evidence Tuesday afternoon.
Ackman acted as his own lawyer during his trial. Sentencing has not yet taken place.
Winnipeg Free Press
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/...-prostitution-ring-involving-young-teens.html
Well, so much for the notion that police would not waste their time using the new law to go after customers of indoor sex businesses where there was nothing else wrong.
Read the article again, it says nothing about INDOOR, it says "areas know for exploitation" that would be the outdoor SW area where all the under aged girls that are used by the street gangs work.
I have a more sinister take on this: They systematically photographed these sex workers and identified them. You can rest assured that they are now in the police database. They can now be staked out and, since they admitted to being sex workers, anybody exiting those premises can now be arrested on suspicion of paying for sex: why else would a man visit a 'known prostitute'? Reasonable suspicion is enough for arrest. You can keep your mouth shut, but the sex-worker could be coerced into giving evidence in exchange for not being arrested, [humiliated] and booked.
Despite popular notion, sex workers can still be arrested and booked at the cop shop for offenses against prostitution laws. C-36 only says that they are immune from prosecution, i.e. taken to court, but it doesnt' say that they can't be charged. It has always been the prerogative of the Crown to prosecute or not; but the Crown does not decide who gets arrested or not.
IMO, an arrest without the prospect of a prosecution would not stand judicial scrutiny. However, it hasn't been tested yet, and there may be more zealous police forces out there that would actually do this, under pressure from politicians with a moralistic bent.
Yes, seen it. Despicable. The goal of these laws is to 'protect' women from exploitation and preserve their virtue, despite doing this of their own free will. But it's not so much for protecting them than to enforce morality on clients and grabbing fines. So they find out where a sex-worker is conducting business and they just wait for clients; they nail them AFTER they have conducted business. Then they might see her, but more than likely, wait for the next customer. So they're not too interested in preventing their 'exploitation'. They're just using them as bait. Then she finds out that her business has been destroyed and has no other means of revenue, at least from a safe place. Might have to go on the streets.... good job cops (with a whole lot of sarcasm). You don't really care about the welfare of sex-workers; just getting more fines for enforcing morality.
It seems that the police are exploiting the prostitute in this case, but not sexually.
Actually, they are exploiting the prostitute sexually when sex is used to lure customers so they can then arrest them. It's one step ahead of a lady cop posing as a prostitute. They would never lat a lady cop posing as a prostitute to have sex in order to catch a client, but they will let a prostitute have sex with a client in order to catch him after the fact. Only that the police will not pay the prostitute for the service.
In Sweden, if she's then found to be a foreigner, they will deport her. If she's Swedish, they could charge her with keeping a bawdy house, or living off the avails and if her place of business is her residence, will advise her landlord to kick her out, or else charge him with living off the avails. But Swedish law does not allow police to charge her for selling sex.... only anything else under the sun. Bunch of liars and hypocrites.
