Posted on 09/29/2006 7:45:48 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
BOSTON (Reuters) - A prostitute forced repeatedly into having sex with a Boston policeman said she feared the abuse would never stop -- until she stole his badge.
When the officer, Michael LoPriore, telephoned her to get it back, the FBI was tuning in to their conversation, the 19-year-old's lawyer, John Swomley, said on Wednesday.
LoPriore, 37, was charged in federal court on Tuesday with depriving the woman of her rights by using his position as a police officer to force her to perform sex in his car in September 2004.
Under a plea agreement, the 12-year veteran of Boston's police force will plead guilty, resign and never seek another job as a police officer in Massachusetts. Prosecutors are recommending that he serve a year in prison.
Swomley said LoPriore had stopped the teenager in a downtown red-light district known as the "Combat Zone" while he was off duty and in his personal car.
After showing her his badge, he ordered her into the car and drove to several locations where he forced her to perform oral sex, he added.
"She told me the badge was stuffed in a little cubby in the front console. His head was back and he wasn't really paying attention to where her hands were," he said.
When she's actively offering it for sale, she cannot be raped. Kidnapped, extorted, robbed, falsely imprisoned, attacked, battered, beaten, etc., yes. Raped, no.
Just to be clear, I'm suggesting she forfeits any special sanctity accorded to that part of her personhood when she's actively offering it for sale.
During that time, although rape is impossible, many other "crime[s] against a person" are possible.
see #101 and #103.
When she's actively offering it for sale, she cannot be raped.
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Excellent. So you agree, in this situation that we are discussing today, she was raped. She was not actively offering anything for sale to the Law Enforcement Officer.
I knew you'd come around once the reality of the situation became clear to you.
That's why you're a new geezer. Old geezers would stubbornly stick to their previously stated opinions and never give them up, even in the face of massive evidence to the contrary.
If that's the case, she very well may have been sexually assaulted.
However, in the general case where a cop pulls up to a street walker and demands sex, I stand by my earlier statements.
If she says "no", it's rape. REgardless of what else she does. Period. End of story.
No.
Have you been raped? Is that what prevents you from seeing the obvious difference between a woman who's selling it and one who is not?
Why do you insist that it's ok?
Where did I say "it's ok" or anything of the sort? What he did was criminal. It's just not rape.
There is no difference. None. She is still an individual who has a Right to her own person. "Acts of capitalism between consenting adults."
Once that "consent" is removed, it's rape. Period.
What he did was criminal.
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OK. What crime, specifically, is this cop guilty of? You said he did something criminal. What was it?
For all the reasons stated previously, it shouldn't be. While she's a street vendor, she's willing to sell it.
If a hooker says "No" simply because the guy's unwilling to pay for it, and you want to call that "rape," you've defined the word "rape" to mean taking sex without paying the going rate for it.
That may be a lot of things, but it's not rape.
Rape. For starters.
No. She's a female. If she said "no", I couldn't care less if she was a freakin' public utility giving it away to everyone else for free.
It's a consent thing that you are obviously having problems with due to personal distaste for prostitution. Tough. Get over it. I don't care if she had given freebies to the entire population of Beijing. All it takes is her saying "no" once to make it rape.
Rape. For starters.
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Which is what I've been saying all along. I was hoping newgeezer, who recognizes that a crime has been committed (but not rape), could fill us in on what the specific crime was.
This was rape and should be prosecuted as such.
"Is that what prevents you from seeing the obvious difference between a woman who's selling it and one who is not?"
There is no difference. If she says no, then it's rape.
I'm not certain what all he's qualified for. If she was selling her services when he picked her up (and it sounds like she was), he used his position as an officer of the law not only to (1) get her into his car, but also to (2) steal what she was selling.
So, I guess what he did is called extortion, kidnapping, robbery, etc. But, it's not rape.
He should take it up with the Better Business Bureau.
You and your friends have devalued "rape" to be nothing more than a difference of $10 or $20.
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