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California Democrats legalize child prostitution
Washington Examiner ^ | 12/29/2016 | travis allen

Posted on 12/29/2016 4:42:40 PM PST by bkopto

Beginning on Jan. 1, prostitution by minors will be legal in California. Yes, you read that right.

SB 1322 bars law enforcement from arresting sex workers who are under the age of 18 for soliciting or engaging in prostitution, or loitering with the intent to do so. So teenage girls (and boys) in California will soon be free to have sex in exchange for money without fear of arrest or prosecution.

This terribly destructive legislation was written and passed by the progressive Democrats who control California's state government with a two-thirds "supermajority."

To their credit, they are sincere in their belief that decriminalizing underage prostitution is good public policy that will help victims of sex trafficking.

Unfortunately, the reality is that the legalization of underage prostitution suffers from the fatal defect endemic to progressive-left policymaking: it ignores experience, common sense and most of all human nature — especially its darker side.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; US: California
KEYWORDS: ageofconsentlaws; california; clickbait; corruptingaminor; fakenews; mannact; prostitution; sexworkers; statutoryrape
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Anyone would understand and forgive trafficking but this excuses ALL minors. Teens pimp themselves out all the time.


41 posted on 12/29/2016 5:33:58 PM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Sorry I just don’t buy that line. Sounds fishy to me. I would insist that they are arrested, doesn’t mean they will be found guilty right? At the very least it gets them into the system instead of ignored. Don’t BUY it for a second. Call me conspiracy or whatever it sends a bad message.


42 posted on 12/29/2016 5:37:55 PM PST by Coffee_drinker (The best defense is a strong preemptive strike.)
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To: bkopto

I hope the San Andreas fault fails and CA falls into the Pacific.


43 posted on 12/29/2016 5:43:06 PM PST by I want the USA back (Lying Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: RedWulf
They didn’t legalize child prostitution. It’s no longer a crime for a child to sell themselves for sex, but it’s still still statutory rape to engage with sex with a minor. Therefore child prostitution is still an illegal act, they’re just not going to punish the child for it Rescue the child, and provide protective custody and rehabilitation under the idea that they’re not responsible for their actions under law capable of rescuing themselves and need help.

Bizarre post corrected to reflect reality.

44 posted on 12/29/2016 5:44:17 PM PST by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: bkopto

California legalizes statutory rape.


45 posted on 12/29/2016 5:45:15 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: bkopto
This is discrimitory. It give minor “sex workers” a financial and strategic business advantage over older “sex workers”. Obviously the state of California has no real problem with prostitution because it gives minors the right to engage in it so it should allow the same for oldder hookers as well.
46 posted on 12/29/2016 5:46:02 PM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: GreyFriar

California is just getting ready for the influx of rapeugees from the ME.


47 posted on 12/29/2016 5:47:06 PM PST by headstamp 2 (Fear is the mind killer.)
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To: RedWulf

Can envision a lot of 14-16 year old pimps .... since they will be selling it.....


48 posted on 12/29/2016 5:50:36 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Dan Rather, a 60 Minutes Investigative Reporter for CBS, invented "Fake News"-fake but accurate.)
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To: GreyFriar

Legal for the Ho.
Not for the John.


49 posted on 12/29/2016 5:55:51 PM PST by Kozak (ALLAH AKBAR = HEIL HITLER)
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To: Hugin
How does this square up with age of consent? Can you recognize the right for someone under 18 to sell their sex but then say they can't give it away?
50 posted on 12/29/2016 5:58:12 PM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: bkopto

To their credit...


Really?


51 posted on 12/29/2016 5:59:16 PM PST by samtheman (I wish Trump would read FR.)
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To: bkopto

Speechless.


52 posted on 12/29/2016 6:03:03 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (****happy dance**** BIGLY!!!!)
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To: bkopto

The reason the evil “justices” made sodomy into a “virtue” is now revealed. Flipping 2000 years of Ethics back to paganism, Satanism, tribalism (islam) by the Podesta and Hastert and Giffen-types.—the sexual liberation where there is no “right” and “wrong” when it comes to the sex act. Anything goes. No “justice” system at all. We can use any human being in disgusting, degrading ways, and it is a “Just Law”. LOL

...all for the children, as John Maynard Keynes, the Fabian Socialist economist pederast, who wrote in all his letters to his homosexual orgy buddies advertising the boys for “the love that dare not speak its name”. So, they are making the Afghanis’ Ethics “normal” and Satanism into our “Justice” System. Yep.

So California leads in the emasculation, degradation, and pimping of our little boys and girls. (Satanism).

How can you arrest any pizza-gate people when sex with children is legalized. (Oh, yes, when they sacrifice them and kill and eatl them, oh, “maybe” the police and judges will care-—like they did with Jimmy Savile and the elites for 4 decades-—and the Bushes and CIA Boy-Sex ring in the White House in the 80s and 90s. All a system for bribery-—but now with it legal, they can’t bribe the Hastert’s. Oh Dear!

They kick our Chrsitian Ethics out unconstitutionally for Satanism and force Satanism on us in our so-called “Just” laws-——what a crock full of sh*t. Either there is Rule of Law or Rule of Man-—not both. We only have ONE system in this country.


53 posted on 12/29/2016 6:05:51 PM PST by savagesusie (When Law ceases to be Just, it ceases to be Law. (Thomas A./Founders/John Marshall)/Nuremberg)
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To: bkopto

Every day I wake up, we’re sinking to another low.

Probably shouldn’t have handed our country to the American Left.

But if we hadn’t, they would have called us “racist” - so we did the right thing. :)


54 posted on 12/29/2016 6:16:54 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: bkopto

It appears that five people here read the article, and 3 of those five read the bill. The rest of you are just hyperventilating, and embarrassing yourselves. The text of the bill is here:

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1322

The applicable subsection, as changed, is here:

SECTION 1. Section 647 of the Penal Code is amended to read:

(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), this subdivision does not apply to a child under 18 years of age who is alleged to have engaged in conduct to receive money or other consideration that would, if committed by an adult, violate this subdivision. A commercially exploited child under this paragraph may be adjudged a dependent child of the court pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (b) of Section 300 of the Welfare and Institutions Code and may be taken into temporary custody pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 305 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, if the conditions allowing temporary custody without warrant are met.

The article claims, in part, that the intention behind the changes are to allow child prostitutes to be immune from charges stemming from said acts and turned back out on the street. It a claims that this works in favor of the sex traffickers because no time in prison for the child prostitute means more time on the street and more money for the pimp. Are you guys getting that from the paragraph above?

In reality, the changes passed allow the child prostitute to be taken as a ward of the state, ending the illegal activity. How well it works is yet to be seen. If this story didn’t raise a red flag as being illogical from the get go, you need to take a serious step back.

I don’t want people on my side who make me look foolish, and neither should you. Yes, the libs pull some pretty heinous BS. This is not one of those times. If this law fills a gap in the law that would have otherwise prevented a child from being removed from a dreadful situation, I’m all for it.


55 posted on 12/29/2016 6:32:01 PM PST by tech_rjmarce1
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To: jmacusa

California has been my home all of my life and I
sure as hell didn’t know that any kind of prostitution
was legal. Gee, I’ve watched that Jail program on TV.
When the program has originated in Las Vegas I have
seen arrested prostituses who say they came from
SoCal to ply their trade. They could have stayed home,
worked, and avoided arrest. We talking local ordinances
versus state law or what? I wonder if I am too old
to become a pimp?

Something not quite right, here.


56 posted on 12/29/2016 6:32:19 PM PST by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: bkopto

What hooey. So evil. And then they’ll show child prostitution numbers drop because police will have to let it go and the Sacramento problem will be all under the table so to speak.


57 posted on 12/29/2016 6:41:46 PM PST by Karliner (Jeremiah29:11,Romans8:28 Isa 17, Damascus has fallen)
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To: GreyFriar
Causes for the Fall of the Roman Empire
58 posted on 12/29/2016 7:17:36 PM PST by NYer (Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy them. Mt 6:19)
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To: liberalh8ter

What it’s saying is it’s illegal, but the minor is not a criminal but a victim. If anything it brings the two laws into alignment. The way it was an underage prostitute was both a victim and a criminal for the same act.


59 posted on 12/29/2016 7:41:46 PM PST by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: bkopto

Hollywood’s casting couch continues...


60 posted on 12/29/2016 8:32:07 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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