Does answering a prostitution ad make a man a sex trafficker? The highest court in Massachusetts says no, in a ruling that represents a win for both common sense and civil liberties.
The case—Commonwealth v. Garafalo—involved a prostitution sting conducted by state police in 2021. Officers posted web ads pretending to be adult female sex workers and arrested men who met up with these “women” to pay for sex. Rather than simply charge their marks with the crime of soliciting a sex worker or engaging in sexual conduct for a fee, authorities charged them with trafficking of persons for sexual servitude.
Don’t tell the FLA Sheriff who makes a show outta things like this. He’ll be pissed he’s being undermined!
This term has lost all meaning.
Duh, common sense.
If it did then Trump would be a sex trafficker too in that Stormy Daniels case.
“But I was hoping the court would agree with the defense team’s arguments about no actual person being involved.”
Good luck with that, because it would open a can of worms involving a number of laws around the country. Not only catch a predator stings, but laws criminalizing simulated cp as well as the new statewide creeper laws banning the possession of child sex dolls.
Prostitution is the oldest profession and not everyone hooking up for sex with an adult is a trafficker. Currently our government is the biggest human traffickers, so should they be on their beloved registry?