Eaglewings
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You are arguing about end goals I am not arguing about, and ignoring the change to the method of achieving the end goal.
Prosecutors who have made their bones trying to break these rings up don't like this law. it takes away their leverage.
It protects pimps and johns......ie suppliers and customers.....and hurts the products...ie kids.
Another lie. What a surprise. It does NOT protect the pimps and johns. They can still be arrested. Why? Because the law did NOT make child prostitution legal.
Anything that makes it harder to prosecute them helps them. Prosecutors have lost leverage on the kids that are picked up. Even if they never intend to prosecute, they had at least the hammer to convince these kids to go against whatever conditioning they had received from the traffickers.
You might find this to be a interesting read Marty
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1252&context=djglp
please excuse some of the wording
As I stated in my original response, the intent of this is worthy, however the end result is the loss of leverage over a potentially unwilling victim of a crime.
In the end, the only thing this does is help the trafffickers because now the State can't use leverage to get the kids to name names.
Here is a interesting link with the same concerns as you..
here is a scale of this same law in the Netherlands
* Prostitution has never been illegal in the Netherlands, but a ban on pimping and brothels was enacted in 1911 "to protect prostitutes from exploitation." This ban was not enforced since 1960, and in 2000 it was removed from the penal code. Per a Dutch governmental report, "One of the most important objectives" of the bill that removed the ban on pimping and brothels "was to prevent and combat human trafficking."[178] [179] Per the same report:
• Between 2000 and 2009, the number of reported trafficking victims in the Netherlands grew from 341 people in 2000 to 909 people in 2009.
Sex Trafficking – Just Facts