LafayetteLady
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As many others have said, this is not about whether or not prostitution should be legalized. Like many others, I think that legalizing it would regulate it and make it safer all around. They have freaking unions for them in Nevada from what I hear. The point is that at THIS TIME prostitution is illegal. Why was she stupid? Why should she have cracked open a text book before reporting it? Because the chances of her actually being admitted to the bar now are very much in question. Typically, if you are convicted of a crime, you aren't admitted to the bar. Hell, you could be denied your license for claiming bankruptcy and multiple late payments. Sorry folks, but typically a lawyer is expected to be able to be trusted to be able to manage the bank accounts containing their clients money, and as officers of the court, that they will refrain from breaking the law themselves.
Was she assaulted? It isn't clear. Did the professor know what he was doing as far as BDSM practices go? He admits he wanted to "experiment." Whether or not there was an actual discussion is not mentioned so who knows.
But I have to ask, if she had taken to dealing drugs to pay for her education, which is also typically considered "non-violent," and someone stole her stash and she reported it, would you be so quick to try to excuse her behavior? Or would it be a case of "criminals being stupid?" I'm betting the latter. It's all fine and dandy to support the legalization of prostitution, but until it is legal, it is a crime. It is not a felony, but it is a crime and there is punishment for it. So saying that prostitutes get raped because they "can't" report it is a bunch of bullshit. They can report it, and choose not to because they know they will also be charged with a crime. Which they did commit. Could they possibly face a little "you put yourself in a very dangerous position, so you are partly to blame?" Yep. But you know what? They did, not because the tricks *know* they can get away with it, but because they took a calculated risk by being a street walker. The majority of police stations in this country at this time would not laugh the woman out of the station, BUT and this is a big one, typically when someone is sexually assaulted, they don't go to the police station, they go to a HOSPITAL, because no one in the police station is going to do the rape kit. But, alas, our little lady here wasn't raped, *merely* assaulted. Did she go to the police station immediately after leaving the motel and the man who allegedly assaulted her? The article doesn't say, does it? Based on the information provided, I have a funny feeling that it wasn't right away and something else happened between the time at the motel and her going to the police. Like it or not, the time between the crime and the reporting of the crime makes a difference in the way someone looks at it.
Just a side note, this isn't 40 years ago, in the United States, most of the states have passed laws prohibiting the conduct of the victim from being an issue, including if she was a prostitute. So again, it isn't that hookers can't report it, it is that they choose not to face any penalty for their own crime, just like the drug dealer/buyer who gets ripped off doesn't want to face the consequences for their crime.
As LadyPact said, she could have taken a semester off and saved up some money by getting a job. Has no one hear heard of this nifty little things called a STUDENT LOAN? Sure, some people don't want to take on debt, but how many people know anyone who went through law school without one?
As for the concept that we are going to see a lot more theft, hookers and strippers....bullshit. As someone who DOES have the experience of knowing what it is like to be so poor with no where to turn and not knowing what I was going to do, I didn't steal, I didn't strip and I didn't sell sexual favors. Again, we need to be very clear here, there is nothing to say that this woman was "totally out of options" and was in danger of losing her home, her car, her family heirlooms. She was in danger of having to delay her education until she could better afford it.
A little perspective on the reality of what happened here would be in order. An attorney and an attorney to be should know better than to break the law. Kind of defeats the purpose of her going to school. Personally, I don't want to hire an attorney who thinks something is only "a little bit" against the law, or violates the law because they think it shouldn't be a law anyway. Doesn't make them terribly trustworthy.
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