This new bill proposes to grant sex workers immunity from prostitution charges when reporting any of about two-dozen serious crimes, including human trafficking, murder, manslaughter, assault, false imprisonment and stalking.
After the man pulled Pasha Ripley’s hair, raped her and beat her to the point that she’d later need 140 stitches, he reminded her of what little power sex workers like her have in these situations.At the hospital, staff wanted to call police on the man who’d assaulted her, but she wouldn’t let them.
“These are heinous crimes, horrible crimes,” said bill sponsor and state Rep. Matt Soper, a Republican of Delta. “The ability to encourage someone who has actually seen these crimes or been a victim of these crimes to go ahead and come forward, … it really is trying to encourage those witnesses.” “I can recall a time that I was beat up in a parking lot by a client. It was very brutal. I was all bloody, really beaten badly, and I called the police looking for help,” she said. “The police arrived and they never asked me one single question about the gentleman that beat me up. … They asked me what I did, why I was in the person’s car.”
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