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Prostitute nabs crooked cop with his own badge
Reuters ^ | Thu Sep 28, 1:19 PM ET | Staff

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: boston; donutwatch; dumbass; dumbcriminal; fbi; jackbootedthug; jackbootedthugs; jbt; leosgonewild; libertarians; massachusetts; pwned
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"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"

Gee, I wonder if I could get a similar plea agreement......

This crap is getting old

201 posted on 10/31/2006 4:54:39 AM PST by Lloyd227 (and may God bless Oriana Fallaci)
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To: Lloyd227
This crap is getting old

So is the article.

202 posted on 10/31/2006 4:55:26 AM PST by Toby06 (Happy camper.)
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To: Individual Rights in NJ


Sounds like a Democrat running for public office.


203 posted on 10/31/2006 5:02:10 AM PST by buck61
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To: Gay State Conservative


Or driving a car off a bridge leaving an occupant to drown>


204 posted on 10/31/2006 5:04:35 AM PST by buck61
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To: supercat

"Let me offer you a hypothetical: a man goes up to a prostitute and offers her $20 to fellate him. She agrees. When she unzips his pants, she discovers that his member is covered with sores and lesions from who knows what matter of diseases. Is the woman obligated to fellate the man, or does she have the right to give him back his $20 and tell him to get lost?"

Is this one of those "I've got a friend" stories, Hmmm?


205 posted on 10/31/2006 5:06:12 AM PST by Rb ver. 2.0
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To: saganite

You are totally out of control with your emotions!!!!!
This is a fellow freeper, respect of ideas are in order.


206 posted on 10/31/2006 5:07:50 AM PST by buck61
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To: NELSON111


This to me is how the GOP majority has been for the past four years.


207 posted on 10/31/2006 5:10:50 AM PST by buck61
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To: DungeonMaster

If a wife says no, and the husband forces himself on her, is it rape? Your opinion appears to be that it is not, because of the "social contract" for sex included in the marriage.

Using his badge and the threat of arrest to get her to frellate him is rape. Your opinion is invalid, legally.


208 posted on 10/31/2006 5:18:11 AM PST by MortMan (I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
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To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
"Prosecutors are recommending that he serve a year in prison."

A year in prison for forcible rape and abuse of power. Is this a great country or what? < /sarcasm >

209 posted on 10/31/2006 5:21:06 AM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile!)
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To: MortMan
If a wife says no, and the husband forces himself on her, is it rape? Your opinion appears to be that it is not, because of the "social contract" for sex included in the marriage.

That's not the situation we have here is it.

210 posted on 10/31/2006 5:23:30 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Man defiles a rock when he chips it with a tool. Ex 20:25)
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To: RonF
"If a cop catches someone dealing drugs, it's not legitmate for him to force the dealer to give him drugs for free."

Sure it is. They call it "confiscation." Do you really believe that all those valuable drugs are being incinerated?

211 posted on 10/31/2006 5:24:29 AM PST by sweetliberty (Stupidity should make you sterile!)
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To: DungeonMaster

It is similar. The prostitute has an implied "duty", because of her "job", to perform sex acts. The police officer uses the threat of arrest to coerce her into performing against her will.

You have no legal basis for your opinion, sir.


212 posted on 10/31/2006 5:26:46 AM PST by MortMan (I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
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To: MortMan

It's just an opinion. I don't agree with a lot of laws. If the prostitute doesn't want to perform but does for 30 bucks is it rape? If the prostitute doesn't want to perform but does to avoid losing the next couple of tricks while processing through a legal system that really doesn't care much about prostitution in the first place is it rape? Not in my opinion. It's overhead, so to speak.


213 posted on 10/31/2006 5:32:30 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Man defiles a rock when he chips it with a tool. Ex 20:25)
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To: newgeezer

Did Bill Clinton teach you the art of spurious logic, or did you teach him?


214 posted on 10/31/2006 5:45:36 AM PST by steve-b (It's hard to be religious when certain people don't get struck by lightning.)
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To: DungeonMaster
If the prostitute doesn't want to perform but does for 30 bucks is it rape?

If you don't want to go to work, but consent to do so because of that pesky paycheck thing, is it rape?

If the prostitute doesn't want to perform but does to avoid losing the next couple of tricks while processing through a legal system that really doesn't care much about prostitution in the first place is it rape?

It appears you are arguing that the definition of rape is contingent on the person being raped. Is this a correct assessment?

I wholeheartedly disagree with that opinion. Even though the prostitute is pursuing illegal activity, vending sex for money, she does not give up her right to consent or not consent to performing.

To flip this around, consider that your boss says you have to sleep with her (I assume you're a man) in order to keep your job, otherwise you will get fired and arrested. You don't want to do this, but feel like you have no choice. Is that coercion, or just overhead? Is that rape, assuming that a sex act takes place?

215 posted on 10/31/2006 5:56:32 AM PST by MortMan (I was going to be indecisive, but I changed my mind.)
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To: MortMan
It appears you are arguing that the definition of rape is contingent on the person being raped. Is this a correct assessment?

Not exactly. It is contingent of the fact that the person is a prostitute and freely distributes her services for money. That cheapens her and makes narrows the definition of rape.

I wholeheartedly disagree with that opinion. Even though the prostitute is pursuing illegal activity, vending sex for money, she does not give up her right to consent or not consent to performing.

Ah, consent. I hate to think of the horrible violence a cop would have to do to my wife to get sex. The thought makes me very upset and I'm not going to dwell on it or this topic. Now compare that to the trivial coersion that was necessary to get this prostitute to "consent". Please.

To flip this around, consider that your boss says you have to sleep with her (I assume you're a man) in order to keep your job, otherwise you will get fired and arrested. You don't want to do this, but feel like you have no choice. Is that coercion, or just overhead? Is that rape, assuming that a sex act takes place?

It's not rape, it's consent. If there is a weapon or greater force that I can muster it's rape, otherwise it's consent.

216 posted on 10/31/2006 6:20:58 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Man defiles a rock when he chips it with a tool. Ex 20:25)
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