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Entrapment? - either way it's ridiculous..

kraggy · 2011-12-07 06:40:02

...that court time and garda time are taken up by this. http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1207/1224308683120.html Long story short. 21 men charged and plead guilty to soliciting females on various streets in Limerick. The women they were soliciting were gardai posing as prostitutes. First of all, is that not…

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#242 29-02-2012 08:35PM

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kraggy wrote: »

...that court time and garda time are taken up by this.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/1207/1224308683120.html

Long story short.

21 men charged and plead guilty to soliciting females on various streets in Limerick.

The women they were soliciting were gardai posing as prostitutes.

First of all, is that not entrapment? And secondly, if 2 people are consenting adults and are happy to enter in to a financial agreement for basic pleasure, do they really deserve a record and their names in the paper?

(Obviously it's just the mens' names in the paper in this instance, but you know what I mean).

I'm all for the protection of women and obviously trafficking needs to be prevented as much as possible. That's why this trade should be taken off the streets and regulated.

Nope, its not entrapment, these guys walked up and asked for sex, they iniated the conversation.
Secondly the garda undertook the action after numerous complaints from women who had been approached by men offering money for sex, the women just happened to live in the area and were left fearful.

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