California just decriminalized child prostitutes beginning Jan 1… “legalization” stirs outrage
Saturday, December 31, 2016
(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?
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Child prostitution flap: What's the truth?
Jan. 6, 2017
Assemblyman Travis Allen's breathtaking criticism of Senate Bill 1322, which became law this week, was published by the conservative Washington Examiner and picked apart by myriad fact-checkers in recent days. (File photo by Cindy Yamanka, Orange County Register/SCNG) 
Child prostitution has been legalized in California by liberal lawmakers! cries state Assemblyman Travis Allen, R-Huntington Beach, setting off a firestorm of outrage that sweeps through cyberspace.
Fake news! Liar! Wrong! critics cry in response, fake claims of Hillary Clinton running a child prostitution ring in a D.C.-area pizza parlor echoing in their ears.
Allen’s breathtaking criticism of Senate Bill 1322, which became law this week, was published by the conservative Washington Examiner and picked apart by myriad fact-checkers in recent days. Allen, they say, fails to distinguish between “decriminalization” and “legalization” – and he unapologetically agrees with them.
“There is absolutely no difference,” Allen said. “You can ask any person on the street – if you decriminalize something, you have just legalized it. The narrative that the other side is spinning is completely false. The California Democrats did just legalize child prostitution for minors.”
That’s a tortured, twisted take on the facts, according to the bill’s author, Sen. Holly J. Mitchell.
“This notion perpetuated by Assemblymember Travis Allen, that my bill legalizes prostitution and commercial sex for minors, is categorically untrue,” Mitchell said in a statement.
“It remains unlawful for a person under the age of 18 to consent to sexual intercourse in the State of California, and that law remains in effect and is not changed with the implementation of my bill.”
OK, here’s what’s going on.
NO PRISON
Mitchell’s law carries forward a philosophical sea-change that has been under way in California for many years now: That prostitutes are often victims, not criminals.
Many are young women from difficult circumstances, who wind up in “the life” through manipulation and are kept there by fear. They need help, not prison, the thinking goes, and it’s reflected in crime stats: The number of people arrested for prostitution in California was down 34 percent in 2014 over a decade earlier. In Orange County, prostitution arrests were down nearly 50 percent over that decade.
Mitchell’s bill enshrines that philosophy into law for kids.
“What this new law does is have law enforcement or a judge place underage victims of commercial sexual exploitation with California’s Department of Social Services, rather than arrest and charge minors with prostitution,” Mitchell said in her statement.
“Minors involved in prostitution are victims and we have a moral responsibility to provide them with a safe placement that protects them. Juvenile Hall is not that place,” she said. “Being criminalized as opposed to being treated like a victim of rape through arrest, detainment and criminal charges is not how California treats victims of abuse. It would never occur to us to arrest a victim of rape or domestic violence to ‘keep them safe’ from their perpetrator. Today we provide victims with safe shelters and wrap around services. SB 1322 will provide minor victims of human trafficking the same protection.”
‘OPTIMISTIC’
Allen grants that the law’s supporters may be well-intentioned. But, he insists, they’re also misguided.
“The claim these children are going to be helped through Children’s Services is vastly optimistic, at best,” he said. “Children’s Services doesn’t have the capacity to handle all these at-risk youth, No. 1, and No. 2, there is nothing that forces these misguided youth in this terrible situation to stay in Children’s Services and get help."
If a 16-year-old prostitutes himself or herself on a street corner, California law enforcement can't act unless officers feel there’s immediate physical danger, Allen maintains. Police can take the minor to Children’s Services, but the very next day he or she is free to walk out the door and onto the streets again.
"The system previously allowed us to get these at-risk youth off streets, away from pimps, and into services," he said. "This new law has tied our hands and rendered us helpless.”
Allen will introduce legislation to overturn SB 1322 in coming days, he said.
“If the intent is to stop the human traffickers, then let’s increase their penalties,” he said. “Give law enforcement more tools to work with, not less. We must repeal this law.”
FIGHT LOOMS
Mitchell said she’s proud of the law, and it’s false to claim it legalizes commercial sex for minors and incentivizes traffickers to further exploit children.
Law enforcement’s responsibility to protect children is as strong as ever, she said. California’s Welfare and Institutions Code says that if an officer determines that a minor is in an unsafe situation, he is required to remove the child from harm.
“Once again, Assemblymember Allen’s statement that, ‘Immunity from arrest means law enforcement can’t interfere with minors engaging in prostitution’ is wrong,” Mitchell said.
“Traffickers tell children not to trust law enforcement and that they should fear arrest. We have learned from survivors that when they can trust law enforcement, they are more likely to report traffickers, seek out help from law enforcement in unsafe situations, and participate in prosecutions.”
Allen’s plan is to make this a national fight.
“It may have been put in place with good intentions, but the consequences will be disastrous,” he said.
Just one more battle to keep an eye on in 2017. OC Register