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by MR on 07:32 PM June 9th, 2006 EST (#1)
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"Although the bill has wide support among lawmakers and women's groups, defense lawyers argue that the penalties — up to 15 years in prison for offenders — are too tough. But strengthening criminal sanctions and imposing civil fines is the only way to stop trafficking. Make it too dangerous and costly for sex traffickers to run their business here.
Right now, many predators go unpunished because our laws are impotent or non-existent. It's high time we equip New York (and the U.S.) with the legal armor necessary to stop the sex trafficking of women."
How about protecting our own male citizens first? What about the women who come to America, promising love and companionship, but really only want to get married to get citizenship and a rich, lonely, American man's money. Yea, no mention at all of that in this story, but there should have been and in as much detail if not more.
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by mcc99 on 09:43 PM June 9th, 2006 EST (#2)
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Fox is no exception to the rule in the media regarding this sort of thing. There is so much in this article that is just plain wrong. There are plenty of laws in NY and the US to protect anyone from the kind of thing the author describes, it's just that it's hard to enforce such laws when the crime isn't reported.
In any case I agree with the submitter about the distortions associated with this article. It makes it sound like every other woman getting off an international flight at LaGuardia is getting ready to be pressed into work at a brothel! Any trafficking in people for any reason is just plain wrong. This article though is a sensationalist piece of fluff and of course places the victimization of women over the victimization of everyone else in importance.
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by PPaul on 03:09 AM June 10th, 2006 EST (#3)
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Why do the woman who find themselves "conned" in the way these articles describe, not go straight to the police? Nobody can tell me they are all clapped in irons and gagged the second they step off a plane, and are kept tied to a bedpost 24/7 for ever afterwards. They might be deceived for a while until they find out the truth, but as soon as they realise they are tricked into working in a brothel or strip joint, they must surely have an opportunity at some point to escape? And it only needs one such "slave" to get away from any establishment and blow the whistle, and the whole rotten edifice can be brought crashing to the ground. Why is this not happening?
And I don't believe any suggestion that the police are not interested. Given the fact that they are invariably sympathetic to women's sob stories and believe them ahead of any man, there is no way they will just ignore a genuine case of a woman in such trouble. Nor are the police the only escape route for women. They have no end of assistance available. If nothing else, they can just go to the press. They lap up stories of this kind, they will pursue the allegations and certainly point women towards sources of help.
Or would all of this just be too easy?
We have had sex slave trafficking scares in the UK recently too. So far they have invariably turned out to be massively exaggerated, and the girls involved have turned out to be willing participants desirous of using their bodies to make more money than they could do elsewhere.
I don't doubt that there are genuine cases of abuse, there always will be, particularly in such a shabby and greedy industry that attracts low life from both sexes. But we need to get away from the nonsense that every sex worker is a forced, cowed and terrified slave.
Don't let them turn this into another stick to beat us with.
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by Roy on 10:36 PM June 10th, 2006 EST (#4)
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"Why do the woman who find themselves "conned" in the way these articles describe, not go straight to the police?"
They do.
The police are paid off by their pimps.
The police are the real pimps in the prostitution scam.
If you were a cop making shit money and had the opportunity to scam twice your actual salary by "overlooking" a little pussy industry, what would you do?
Maybe get the graft and a few free blowjobs?
Get some street.
Cred.
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by PPaul on 07:40 AM June 11th, 2006 EST (#5)
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Roy
Thanks for the enlightenment. It's a rotten business for sure.
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