Is the judge smoking crack or something? The judge said that the father had good character and didn't mean his son any harm??? Please... What dad of good character would do this to his teenage son???
Fri May 15, 8:53 am ET
LONDON (Reuters Life!) – A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son's virginity as a present was spared jail by a British court on Friday.
The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham, central England.
But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was handed a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for a year, after he admitted a charge of trying to solicit a woman to have sex with a child, the Press Association reported.
The court heard that the father, who came to Britain eight years ago, was arrested last July during an undercover operation by the city's vice squad.
Prosecutor Adrian Harris said the man and his son had approached the undercover officer whose code name was Sarah and beckoned her over .
He asked "Sarah" how much it would cost for her to have sex with his son and they agreed on a 20 pound ($30) fee. However, when the car pulled over, the man was arrested by plainclothes police officers.
"The boy said that they had driven past the girl and his dad pointed to her and said 'will she do?'," Harris said.
"He said 'yes' and they had turned round. He said his dad did this because he was still a virgin and he was taking care of that for him."
Judge Jonathan Teare said he would spare the father jail because of his excellent character and that he believed he did not mean any harm to his son.
"You have a duty of care to your son and that is to look after his moral welfare, not as you might think to break him in to the ways of sex through a prostitute," he said.
The court was told the boy would continue to live with his father.
(Reporting by Michael Holden; Editing by Steve Addison
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I like cathy little bit
That being said I think the criminalization of prostitution is dumb. Until 1990 Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington had two groups of brothels. One was located In Wallace Idaho and had been in business since the 1890's. The other was a cluster of "message" parlors located near Interstate 90 on the Idaho, Washington State line. But in 1990 they were shut down permanently. After that the number of incidents of rape went way up in this area.
It may be a dirty little secret, but prostitution does and always has provided a release valve for the sexual stress our society endures. I think folks should mellow out and spend more time concerning themselves with their own business.
It doesn't apply here, but what consenting adults do behind closed doors is nobodies business but theirs.