Posted on 11/15/2008 11:14:53 AM PST by HollyButler
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Sexual servitude is a new crime recently added to the books in Nashville.
And for the first time in Metro two men now face those charges.
Police said Jesus Miguel Garcia and Arturo Garnica Perez held a woman against her will for years and forced her into prostitution.
She told police they threatened to hurt her family if she didn't do what they wanted. She also claimed they tortured her with ice picks.
"There are those who say prostitution is a victimless crime. This certainly shows that it is not," said Metro police spokesman Don Aaron.
The two men and the woman are all being held because police believe they are in this country illegally.
Stupid argument.
Kidnapping people and forcing them to do things against their will is where it becomes evil.
If they had forced her to sell cupcakes would they say that selling cupcakes was bad?
She is now eligible to stay forever...
Illegal alien victims of crimes get to stay in the US...
It is disgusting that law enforcement is overlooking the fact that there was human trafficking as well as slavery going on here just so they can drive home a point.
Aren’t there laws against slavery?
Exactly right.
While I'm usually quite supportive of law enforcement personnel, it seems to me that more and more are jumping onto the Clinton-Bush Nanny-Statism bandwagon...with the whole fake nomenclature that accompanies it. This was a crime regardless of what the forced acts--or even no acts--were.
The murder rate might be skyrocketing, people might be getting mugged, but it's far easier to go after prostitution (except with Spitzer, of course), so it gets demonized. And the "broken-window" idea has been shown to be WRONG with prostitution, time and time again. If law enforcement would focus on other crimes--like this kidnapping/slavery type of situation--a lot of benefit could be gained.
Being the perverts Americans are unwilling to be.
Are the cupcakes being sold without the proper licenses and inspection and are taxes being collected. I need to know before I make a moral determination. Oh! almost forgot. What flavor cupcake?
“There are those who say prostitution is a victimless crime. This certainly shows that it is not,” said Metro police spokesman Don Aaron.
No, it shows that sexual slavery is not a victimless crime. It also shows that the police spokesman feels a need to assert that sex is criminal, at least when somebody makes a profit in the deal.
Sex, even when icky, is generally legal. Giving someone money, even for nothing, is also generally legal. But putting the two together somehow destroys society?
Prostitution is not a good thing, but neither is ditch digging. And it’s a pity that some people try to earn a living doing either. Prosecute prostitution if it gets out of hand, but spare us the rationalizations and moral indignation.
Yep.
The other thing that has always killed me about prostitution is that the lawmen always go after the men. As if they are somehow responsible.
It is the women who put on the negligee, lipstick, heels and advertise their wares on the streetcorner trying to entice the men.
If they were selling drugs, the buyers are looked at as the victims, but the sellers are a worse class of criminals called “pushers” and “dealers”.
Why is it so different with prostitution? If it’s a bad thing, then the sellers should be the ones penalized most severely, not the buyers (victims).
Personally, I don’t think it should be illegal.
It’s easier to catch buyers because there are more of them.
The majority of drug criminals are also not dealers, but rather people with drug in their possession. And, in fact, “intent to distribute” is not based on intent but quantity, based on weight. In many states the weight includes paraphernalia as well, which means a lot of users convicted of a crime different than what they actually committed.
The reality is police go after targets based on ease of arrest and conviction in most cases, and not based on the threat to society or severity of the crime.
And before the “you hate cops” crowd comes out, my older brother is a now retired police Sargent who served as point man for the SWAT team and head of a federally funded interdepartmental narcotics task force, and I base my opinions in large part on his observations.
I think the police spokesman is confusing prostitution with sexual slavery.
Well, Spitzer got off scot-free and they prosecuted the vendor.
It is disgusting that law enforcement is overlooking the fact that there was human trafficking as well as slavery going on here just so they can drive home a point.
True, but then they are cops and most often not the brightest bulb on the tree.
I vehemently disagree with that statement, and so will any prostitute who saw me naked…!
Have you ever heard of someone being forced to sell cupcakes? Yet you'll find women forced into prostitution even where it's legal. Why do you think that is?
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