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.
Define "legitimate." Do I think that because a girl has become a prostitute she therefore forfeits all of her other rights? Of course not. You have no more right to rape a prostitute than you have to rape anybody else.
If he'd have given her 20 bucks instead of her suggested retail of 30 is it still rape?
It all depends on whether the specific sex act was consensual. Raping a prostitute and throwing $10,000 at her is still rape if she didn't consent.
If a prostitute gets stiffed of her pay has she been raped?
No. She's been cheated and robbed, not raped, as long as the sex was consensual. This is a pretty clear distinction. However, if the sex wasn't consensual, then it's rape.
It's also called Rape and blackmail. If she wasn't willing and he was using his position as an officer to pressure her to have sex under a threat of prosecution, that's rape and blackmail.
Prostitution is a misdemeanor in the overwhelming majority of situations. So a woman caught speeding is to blame if she's raped by the cop puling her over? How about someone throwing an excessivel loud party? You're ok with cops raping those responsible? Where exactly do you go come in and say rape starts being ok?
Our resident rapist-support group should also note that child molestation, unlike prostitution, is a felony punisheable by decades in prison. Prositution is almost always a misdemeanor.
They're not so much rapist support as cop suckers. there is a strong neonational socialist contingent on fr that feels that cops should not have to follow the laws that the rest of us do.
"Charlie's wife goes down to the Scollay Square station, every day at a quarter past two.
And through the open window, she hands Charlie a sandwich as the train goes a rumbling through."
"It's also called Rape and blackmail."
I was responding to a guy who said he didn't see the problem. I just formulated a quick and dirty explanation that was not meant to cover everything. Your indignation should be directed at the party I was responding to, who obviously believes prostitutes are sub-human.
unless you're a cop
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I'd bet 50 bucks that this guy does a few weeks of counseling, they declare him "cured", and a police union in another state fights successfully for this guy to get a job there.
Yep, drunk cops don't get caught for DUI until they crash.
That was my point, einstein. As long as it's someone else's daughter, it's OK. Right?
I saw a story out of Dallas where a cop caught a guy who was running from him on foot, shot him in the back while he was on his knees with hands held high, and then pistol-whipped him after he was cuffed. The cop didn't know that there was a news copter hovering a mile away getting everything on camera. The kicker is: since the perp lived and didn't have any permanent injury, the cop was convicted of misdemeanor assault, was fined a few hundred dollars with no jail time, and was fired. The cop successfully sued to get his job back with full back pay. Makes me sick.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus
Ahhh, the ole no-show job trick that the mafia made famous. This cop must've pissed somebody off. He was probably talking trash about the boss within earshot of him or pulled over the boss's beer buddy and wouldn't take back the ticket.
One of the 90% that gives the other 10% a bad name.
I had thought that I had seen the dumbest statement on a thread earlier today, but this beats it by a long shot... "Something precious?" He threatened her with arrest if she didn't perform oral sex on him. Was this rape? If it wasn't voluntary, then yes, it was. More importantly, he should also be charged with extortion and malfeasance, along with using his authority in illegal ways. Given the fact that we give police officers the ability to use deadly force under color of law, we should hold them to higher levels of expectations.
And BTW, "stealing a loaf of bread that was already for sale" is actually a crime. If you don't believe me, I suggest you try it sometimes. Most stores don't look too kindly on shoplifters.
Mark
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