MI: Prosecutor known for fighting prostitution charged with paying for sex hundreds of times

When it came to hiring prostitutes for sex, police say, Stuart Dunnings III preferred escort websites such as Escort Vault and Backpage.com. Most of the time, police say, Dunnings would meet the women at motels. Occasionally, they’d meet at a pimp’s house.

His was a ferocious habit, one that led the 63-year-old to shell out hundreds of dollars three or four times a week for a revolving cast of heroin-addled sex workers. By the time he was arrested Monday outside a Lansing, Mich., coffee shop, Dunnings had racked up hundreds of illegal encounters in three Michigan counties between 2010 and 2015, according to an arrest affidavit.

But Dunnings wasn’t just any John, authorities say. For the past 20 years, he’s been the top prosecutor for Ingham County, a man who put sex traffickers in jail and built a reputation as “an outspoken advocate for ending human trafficking and prostitution,” according to a statement released by Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette (R). Full Article

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oh man , sucks to be him , hmmmm , seems that the witch hunters can be a danger? you mean the Reg did make anyone safe , maybe we should take a closer look at these Reg stalkers that that keep stalking our familys , and go around handing out flyers at places we live , and these people that haunt this very site , when we are just trying to make heads or tails out of our broken lives , the YMCA wow , really? I wish nothing bad to happen to anyone even this guy , but I do see how it could in help with some of the fight when it comes to facts about those” that push this RSO thing so dang hard ,

Archdeacon Claude Frollo is, wait a second. This is the same character only using a different name. Stuart Dunnings III is a predator.

Lol.

That’s all there is to say. Enjoy the registry, “pedophile”

Beware of the Zealot!

Stuart Dunnings III- In Nye County Nevada, it’s perfectly legal to pay for sex in one of the many brothels. You should have moved to Nevada. Not sure how the powers that be would like a public official spending all of his spare time and money with a prostitute?

SEXUAL ADDICTION; now there’s a term you rarely see anywhere in CA RSOL ! But the truth is all sex is addictive. Care to argue the point ?
As it is now, the neo-puritans are hammering away through the Religious Right to criminalize this obvious human trait. And prostitutes and their johns are the perfect target…Can’t call it prostitution anymore; now it’s human trafficking, the latest phrase from the victim advocate industry to attack men.

There are simply many men who have a natural urge to crave sex, but don’t want a committed relationship. Everyone knows this. At least Nevada has been dealing with this truth for many years now.

Timmr: Excellent point. For some, beneath the natural urge is the addiction of power. When I was in outpatient sex offender treatment we had some single guys that tried short circuiting meaningful relationships with women and instead cruised for prostitutes. Were I still in group and said what I just wrote I would have been put on agenda for minimizing, and the rest of the group would have questioned me !

…and when there is no one left to hang, they’ll hang themselves.

I once viewed prosecutors as the “good” ones, and defense attorneys as “bad.” One was noble, the other ignoble. But after my experience, the prosecution is not any worse than the defense. Often, prosecutors — who are now paid abrurd amounts of salary and pension — abuse their powers from a position of hypocrisy (which I personally find much worse). This article also makes me wonder what “skeletons” zealots of the registry hide in their closets…