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California Decriminalizes Child Prostitutes

Pinkie-Dawn

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  • This news is only a few days old, but it needs to be discussed about for the sake of my Californians.

    NaturalNews) Our world is so twisted today that "fake news" is deliberately written by the Washington Post and New York Times to sound like it's real, but real news is so bizarre that it seems fabricated at first glance. Such is the case with California's new law — SB 1322 — that officially legalizes child prostitution beginning January 1. "SB 1322 decriminalizes prostitution charges for minors," explains a press release from California lawmakers (link below).
    SB 1322, entitled "SB-1322 Commercial sex acts: minors", spells it out in plain language: (click here to read the text of the law yourself)
    Existing law makes it a crime to solicit or engage in any act of prostitution. Existing law makes it a crime to loiter in any public place with the intent to commit prostitution.
    This bill would make the above provisions inapplicable to a child under 18 years of age who is alleged to have engaged in conduct that would, if committed by an adult, violate the above provisions.
    SB 1322 was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown on September 26, 2016. "Instead of being treated as criminals, youths to get supervision and counseling services," explains a government press release.
    The law does not legalize adults soliciting sex with children, of course. Instead, it decriminalizes children and teens who engage in prostitution themselves. The idea, according to California lawmakers, is that such children should receive "counseling" instead of criminal charges.
    Notably, there is no age limit on how young a legalized prostitute can now be, meaning that even children as young as 12 years old can legally sell their bodies for sex under California law. Or even nine year olds!
    Gov. Brown, by the way, is the same politician who also signed SB 277, the "vaccine mandate" law that causes young African-American boys to be neurologically damaged and made autistic. That link has already been publicly admitted by a top CDC scientist.
    Prostitution is still a crime if you're 18 or older, but it's legal if you're 17 or younger… huh?
    Now, thanks to Gov. Brown, 17-year-old boys and girls in California have legal immunity to engage in open prostitution. But when they turn 18, suddenly they're criminals.
    Meanwhile, prostitution "clients" are considered rapists or sex offenders if they engage in sex acts with children under the age of 18. So now, according to California's totally insane Governor and legislature, 17-year-old prostitutes can openly stand on street corners and sell their bodies with complete legal immunity… all in the name of "compassion" from a "safe space" California culture that has gone so far off the deep end, the rest of the country desperately hopes #CalExit will succeed.
    Governor Jerry Brown even brags about legalizing child prostitution, saying it will "stop the exploiters and help the exploited." No one outside the fairy tale land of Collapsifornia understands how that logic works. If prostitution is legalized for children, how does that "stop the exploiters" who would then rush to recruit under-age children to serve as sex workers with the benefit of legal immunity?
    If California really wants to stop the exploiters, why doesn't the state just legalize all consenting acts between adults and stop criminalizing adult prostitution altogether? To maintain the criminality of sex acts between adults while legalizing sex acts sold by minors seems so completely insane that it could only come from a place like Collapsifornia — a delusional bubble of artificial reality run by Big Brother meddlers and an endless parade of do-gooder nanny state libtardocrats who still haven't learned a single thing about why "good intentions" alone are never enough.
    Pimps rejoice as California's lunatic liberal lawmakers open the floodgates to exploiting young teens for the sex trade
    "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," writes the Washington Examiner. "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."
    The Examiner adds:
    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.
    In other words, California legislators, via a Democrat supermajority, just passed exactly the type of law that child sex traffickers would have written themselves if they ran the legislature. Come to think of it, maybe they do!
    Thank goodness California also passed SB 277, the vaccine mandate law, because otherwise all those child prostitutes might spread the flu to their paying sex partners. Yep, that's California's health code for you: Vaccinate all the children before you send them onto the street corners as legalized prostitutes.
    Glad to know California has its priorities straight.

    Source: http://www.naturalnews.com/2016-12-...ion-gov-jerry-brown-sb-1322-exploitation.html

    Knowing how sexually active children get once they reach puberty, this is only going to give them an advantage to sleep with several adults in the streets. California hasn't fully thought out about this law, because these kids could be getting away Scott free while the adults they had sex with get in trouble with it, whether they intended it or not.
     

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  • I remember everyone going crazy about this. There seems to be a lot of misinformation regarding the new law. Many people think its legalizing child prostitution, but its not.

    Criminalizing wont help in my opinion because minors dont have the long-term thinking capabilities of an adult and dont consider consequences.
     

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    http://www.snopes.com/child-prostitution-legalized-in-california/

    WHAT'S TRUE: A California law passed in 2016 provides that minors involved in prostitution be treated as victims rather than criminals.

    WHAT'S FALSE: It is still illegal for Californians to hire prostitutes (child or otherwise), and sex traffickers will still face consequences if they are caught prostituting children.

    Posted way back in September, so more than a few days old.
     
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  • No, it's that if a minor gets involved with a prostitute, they don't get punished in the same way an adult would.

    Wow, I misread it too: "engaging" in prostitution as "soliciting the services" of prostitution. Yeah it's actually a law protecting minors who are involved in sex trade.
     
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    Natural news is just about the most untrustworthy news site on the internet, indulging in conspiracy theories and bigotry fairly often while completely disregarding actual fact in the face of uh, "the nature ranger" or whatever the guy in charge calls himself.

    But yeah this law is actually a good thing, it makes it so children roped into prostitution are mandated help rather than shipped off to juvenile detention for prostitution
     

    Pinkie-Dawn

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  • But yeah this law is actually a good thing, it makes it so children roped into prostitution are mandated help rather than shipped off to juvenile detention for prostitution

    Have you read my thoughts on why this is actually a bad thing? Sometimes it's not the adults' fault for getting involved, but the minors are actually involved in this, and now they can get away with it until they're 18.
     
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    Have you read my thoughts on why this is actually a bad thing? Sometimes it's not the adults' fault for getting involved, but the minors are actually involved in this, and now they can get away with it until they're 18.

    Uh, i'm not really sure how much you know of children but locking them up for being in the sex trade to "protect adults" is a pretty twisted way of looking at things?

    Children aren't going to... game the system(?) so they can get away with selling their bodies like some kind of malicious scheme, children in the sex trade are either pushed into it, need to do it to live because of the positions they're in, or are just desensitised to it. All of those options are things that can and need to be fixed with monitoring and therapy to help them grow into functinoal adults.

    There's no mentally sound children out there tricking adults into trading intercourse for money for their nefarious schemes that justify your worry at all
     

    Devil in the Mirror

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  • Um... what.

    Children aren't abusing adults because a law says you can't treat children like criminals for getting wrapped up in prostitution. This law is very obviously about protecting children who would otherwise end up victimized not only by the adults engaging in prostitution but the system that previously would have left them permanently labeled as criminals for the rest of their lives over something they were more likely than not forced into. Kids aren't sexual predators... yeah, teens can get pretty hormonal, but no kid (especially not a sane and healthy one) is going to decide that they can manipulate adults by prostituting themselves. The law clearly isn't about legalizing any form of prostitution. It's about protecting kids.
     
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  • So, I think we can pretty much all agree at this point that the information in the OP is incorrect but I'm leaving this open for discussion of the law in general using the correct information others have provided.
     

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  • It only looks to me like this will give the misguided youth of California a chance at some sort of rehabilitation, instead of tossing them into prison with hundreds of other delinquents and perpetuating a cycle. You've made it sound like "supervision and counselling services" are incentives desperately sought out by younger generations, which I don't believe is the case. I don't live in California so maybe this isn't my place to say, but I don't see how any harm could come from trying it. At least, if I understand the new law correctly.
     
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  • I wish there were more laws like this in place around the country and the world. It's undeniable that young people are still developing into their 20s. Sometimes young people really don't know the extent of what they're caught up in, whether it was their decision or they were coerced or forced into it. And financial/economic disparity between children and adults does make it easy for adults to coerce or force young people into things they wouldn't otherwise do, especially if they come from impoverished circumstances.
     

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    I believe all prostitution should be decriminalized, and ideally legalized. An adult should be able to consent to legally being a sex worker. Child sex workers usually do not get into the trade because they made an informed, consensual decision to do so. I definitely approve of changing the laws so if a child sex worker is found, they are given help instead of a prison sentence.

    On another note, wow, that OP was laughable. Are people supposed to take this site seriously? They talk about fake news while using an untrue and clickbait-y headline.

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    I totally agree with the change in the law. In any event where sexual contact occurs between a child an adult, unless forcible on the child's part, is the adult's responsibility to prevent. It is truly sick that someone would want to elicit paid sex from a minor, but the fact they are able to is a failure to protect these minors, not a failure on the minor's part. You have to keep in mind these are children. Sex trafficking, sexual contact with a minor, etc., are all still illegal. It's misleading to say this legalizes child prostitution, as it is still highly illegal and strongly condemned, both rightfully so.
     

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    So a thread like this can be made, but one on Trump's alleged leaks can't? XDDDDD

    I hope to Arceus this ain't real. One on hand, only two types of people would support this, and each more-than-likely residing I Cali. On the other hand, WHO WOULD SUPPORT THIS?!?!?!
     
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  • So a thread like this can be made, but one on Trump's alleged leaks can't? XDDDDD

    Since when? I don't think either myself or Nah has said no threads can be made about the leaks.

    I hope to Arceus this ain't real. One on hand, only two types of people would support this, and each more-than-likely residing I Cali. On the other hand, WHO WOULD SUPPORT THIS?!?!?!

    The original information given in the OP is extremely misleading. This law is not going to make it okay for adults to engage in sexual activity with children, paid or otherwise, it's going to see child prostitutes given the help and guidance they need to get out of that life and return to living normally. The people who are paying children for sex or pimping kids out are still going to jail. This law protects child sex workers not the people taking advantage of them. So who would support this? Anyone who is thinking about the welfare of the victims.
     
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  • The original information given in the OP is extremely misleading. This law is not going to make it okay for adults to engage in sexual activity with children, paid or otherwise, it's going to see child prostitutes given the help and guidance they need to get out of that life and return to living normally. The people who are paying children for sex or pimping kids out are still going to jail. This law protects child sex workers not the people taking advantage of them. So who would support this? Anyone who is thinking about the welfare of the victims.

    To be fair the title was extremely clickbait-y and misleading.

    I guess it's just one more reason added to the myriad of reasons why I don't trust the news.
     
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  • To be fair the title was extremely clickbait-y and misleading.

    I guess it's just one more reason added to the myriad of reasons why I don't trust the news.

    It's one more reason to not get your news from Facebook, because this site looks exactly like the type of site that throws out "SHOCKING!!!" headlines to grab the attention of people on Facebook and take advantage of the fact that the average person doesn't read past the headline of an article before sharing it.
     

    Pinkie-Dawn

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  • The original information given in the OP is extremely misleading. This law is not going to make it okay for adults to engage in sexual activity with children, paid or otherwise, it's going to see child prostitutes given the help and guidance they need to get out of that life and return to living normally. The people who are paying children for sex or pimping kids out are still going to jail. This law protects child sex workers not the people taking advantage of them. So who would support this? Anyone who is thinking about the welfare of the victims.

    I'm more concerned about teens taking advantage of this decriminalization, due to how sexually active they are, by working into prostitution and get away with it scott-free while their customers get arrested for what they did, whether it was intentional or were forced by these same teen prostitutes out of their own desperation for sex. The article from my OP was the first source I could find that didn't have titles like "Decriminalizing Child Prostitution Doesn't Mean It's Still Legal" because I was looking for the original sources made before those articles were made to make things more clear for the readers.
     
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