follow up on the november busts?

[dreamer222]

I was just wondering what ever happened as a result of the 19 or so AMPs busted in late November/early December of 2006? There has been no follow up in the press that I have seen. I am curious how many people were charged with an offence? How many girls took the "exit help" that was offered? How many claimed to be forced to work, etc.? I suspect the story died because the majority of the women were adults, in the country legally and were working to make money and not because they were drug crazed kids who were being "exploited". Were this not true the press would have been all over it.

 

[georgebushmoron]

Many charged will have their day in court to face the charges in March. Most charges were bawdy house related. Licenses were suspended all over Coquitlam, probably never to be renewed - those parlors have been shut down ever since the raid. Licenses in Richmond.... don't know what's going on with that but no apparent suspensions and whether or not there were fines, I don't know for sure. Licensing rules will prevent those with convictions from getting renewed. Burnaby did not get license suspensions, but council is putting in some major and tough changes.

 

[dreamer222]

I am reopening this thread after more than a year. I note that 14 months have gone by since my original thread about the raids on MP's in February of 2007. I have not seen any press about the results of these raids. Has anyone been charged for human trafficking? How many girls claimed to have been forced into the work? How many wanted and took advantage of services designed to assist them exit the trade?

While I suspect things are different for street sex trade workers, I believe that the majority of woman working off street trade (MP's and Indies) do so out of choice and that their primary motivation is to make money. I believe that few are working because of external coercion. To my mind, this is an important point because if society were to come to believe that working in the sex trade was a personal choice and not the result of coercion then we could move toward establishing an above ground and regulated market that would be in everyone's best interest.

What are your thoughts?

 

[ChineseDude]

I tried to locate the court files online, but had no luck finding it. Is keeping a bawdy house supreme or provincial? I couldn't locate Pinky's court case any where, been looking for days. http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/sc/

Heres a good read, a case in Coq in 2003.

http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/sc/03/17/2003bcsc1757.htm

Shiatsu, any older pooners remember this?

 

[87112]

I was wondering what was going on, I haven't use georgebushmoron in over a...............oh damn it you caught me Ferris. I should have known better, you knew sooner or later I would slip up.

Are you really GBM or what?

 

[dreamer222]

Thanks oceanic and chinesedude. It is too bad that the press didn't publish the follow up info of 0/0/0. Failing to do so just reinforces societies misconceptions and bias'.