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Despicable Dereliction of Duty: California legalizes child prostitution
Travis Allen, 43, is that rare Republican in the California legislature. He represents the 72nd Assembly District in coastal Orange County.
In an article for the Washington Examiner on Dec. 29, 2016, titled “California Democrats legalize child prostitution,” Mr. Allen sounds the warning that beginning on January 1, 2017, “prostitution by minors will be legal in California”:
“SB 1322 bars law enforcement from arresting sex workers who are under the age of 18 for soliciting or engaging in prostitution,
or loitering with the intent to do so. So teenage girls (and boys) in
California will soon be free to have sex in exchange for money without
fear of arrest or prosecution.
This terribly destructive legislation was written and passed by the progressive Democrats who control California’s state government with a two-thirds ‘supermajority.’ To
their credit, they are sincere in their belief that decriminalizing
underage prostitution is good public policy that will help victims of
sex trafficking. Unfortunately, the reality is that the legalization of
underage prostitution suffers from the fatal defect endemic to
progressive-left policymaking: it ignores experience, common sense and
most of all human nature — especially its darker side.
The unintended but predictable consequence of how the
real villains — pimps and other traffickers in human misery — will
respond to this new law isn’t difficult to foresee.
Pimping and pandering will still be against the law
whether it involves running adult women or young girls. But legalizing
child prostitution will only incentivize the increased exploitation of
underage girls. Immunity from arrest means
law enforcement can’t interfere with minors engaging in prostitution —
which translates into bigger and better cash flow for the pimps. Simply put, more time on the street and less time in jail means more money for pimps, and more victims for them to exploit.
As Alameda County District Attorney Nancy O’Malley, a national leader on human trafficking issues, told the media, “It just opens up the door for traffickers to use these kids to commit crimes and exploit them even worse.”
Another prosecutor insightfully observed that if traffickers wrote
legislation to protect themselves, it would read like SB 1322.
Minors involved in prostitution are clearly victims,
and allowing our law enforcement officers to pick these minors up and
get them away from their pimps and into custody is a dramatically better
solution than making it legal for them to sell themselves for sex. That
only deepens their victimization and renders law enforcement powerless
to stop the cycle of abuse. SB 1322 is not simply misguided — its
consequences are immoral.”
SB 1322: Commercial Sex Acts – Minors,
approved by Governor Jerry Brown on Sept. 26, 2016, amends Sections 647
and 653.22 of the Penal Code to render existing law that makes it a
crime to solicit or engage in any act of prostitution “inapplicable to a
child under 18 years of age”.
Assemblyman Travis Allen further warns that SB 1322 is
“only the tip of the liberal iceberg” because the new year “will see the
Golden State subjected to wave after wave of laws taking effect that
are well-intentioned but disastrous embodiments of progressive
utopianism.” Examples include:
- A new Democratic-authored law that “throws open the door to even greater government dependency on the part of the poor by rolling back” a law barring increased payments to women who have more children while still on welfare. “Henceforth, no matter how many children someone has while on welfare, the state government will ratchet up payments with each child, with no limit.”
- Increase in minimum wage to $10/hour, which is proven to increase unemployment of young people — those who are the least skilled and most in need of entry-level jobs.
- Another Democratic-sponsored bill enables an estimated 50,000 felons to vote in the next state election, many from their jail cells.
- A bill that makes it illegal to lend your shotgun if you go hunting with a buddy.
- A bill that forbids state employees from traveling on business to states that prohibit transgender bathrooms.
H/t Longknife 21
~Eowyn
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