Daytona sting nets 7

September 16, 2007 in Prostitution by Trench Reynolds | No comments

Online sting nets 7 prostitution arrests:
The Daytona Beach police arrested 7 craigslist prostitutes in a sting operation.

Those arrested were Jennifer Ahern, Michelle Boros, Paula Beard, Annette O’Brien, Mary Jones, Lisa Kisner, and Shantrel Franklin (aka Gaynell Noel).

And again for those who say prostitution is a victimless crime…

At least two of the women — 27-year-old Shantrel Franklin of Orlando and 35-year-old Jennifer Ahern of Daytona Beach — arrived at the motel accompanied by their significant others and their children. The men and the children stayed in the car, police said.

Tell me that those kids aren’t victims. Just wait here darling mommy has to go screw a stranger for money.

And of course we have to hear from the criminal apologists…

It’s no one’s business why the women are there and police should stop chasing after escorts and street prostitutes when there are more nefarious crooks on the street, said Norma Jean Almodovar, president of the Los Angeles branch of a prostitute advocacy group called, Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics or, COYOTE.

Almodovar, a former call girl who says she was once a traffic cop, quit her job as a police officer in disgust and became an escort in the early 1980s.

“If women are, in fact, the victims of prostitution because they can get killed, etc., why are police setting them up to be arrested?” Almodovar said Friday. “This is a job, period. Believe me, there are many of us who want to do this job.”

Almodovar said police should be targeting people who sexually exploit minors, or people who recruit foreigners to move here under false employment pretenses, then turn them into sex slaves.

She said prostitution advocacy groups such as COYOTE and Prostitutes of New York are fed up with law enforcement stings they say entrap prostitutes and others who labor in the sex industry.

Again with the word entrapment. You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. It’s only entrapment if you coerce someone into doing something they wouldn’t ordinarily do. Since these women were advertising on craigslist I very seriously doubt they were coerced. And while there may be some who want to be a prostitute I can almost guarantee that most women who are wish that they weren’t. Why arrest the prostitutes? Because it’s against the law. Duh.

And let’s hear from craigslist president Jim Buckmaster again…

On the company’s Web site under a heading titled “Craigslist Controversies,” company officials said: “Craigslist have stated many times that they cannot and will not police the site.”

Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster said by e-mail Friday the company does not condone illegal activity and “strives together with the Craigslist community and in cooperation with law enforcement to minimize the misuse of the site for unlawful purposes.”

Isn’t ignoring the commission of a crime just as bad as taking part in it?

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Tags: Annette O'Brien, Daytona, Florida, Gaynell Noel, Jennifer Ahern, Lisa Kisner, Mary Jones, Michelle Boros, Paula Beard, Prostitution, Shantrel Franklin