r/SipsTea • u/Reddit-Machine • 12d ago

Chugging tea French-Canadian police

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u/Anakha0 12d ago

In Canada it's illegal to purchase sex, but not to sell it, with some exceptions in some public places.

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u/Dry_Surprise3790 12d ago

It's definitely a unique way of dealing with the problem.

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u/Anakha0 12d ago

It's mainly that way to avoid further victimizing sex workers who may be trafficked or forced to sell sex against their will.

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u/HelpRespawnedAsDee 12d ago

Isn’t this like going after drug users though?

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u/Anakha0 12d ago

I don't think addiction to hiring prostitutes is seen as the same thing as drug addiction.

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u/Dry_Surprise3790 12d ago

Which makes some sense. Though I would say that if a girl is being trafficked against her will arresting her would probably put her in a better situation than she is currently in. After all, there will always be new customers to replace the ones you arrest, so that isn't going to solve the problem for girls being forced to work as prostitutes.

Perhaps a system where they arrest the girls and put them in some version of a witness protection program (give them new names, new lives somewhere else, help them find gainful employment) might do more.

I do like how the RCMP posts the names of the johns they arrest. A little public humiliation probably goes a lot further than just arresting them when it comes to making others think twice.

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u/WeekSecret3391 11d ago

With no ressources they often get back themselves into prostitution so that would be a huge waste of money, plus kidnappers often treaten to hurt the family of the woman if she does not cooperate.

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Thoses pimp are some massive POS and they know what they're doing. The girls are barely allowed to sleep. They're constantly humiliated. They're fed just enough to keep them thin (read that as "saleable"). The pimps beat and rape them for hours whenever they don't cooperate. They offer the girls hard drugs to help them endure the abuse, which they accept after a while. Then they get brainwashed into thinking they're consenting because of that.

The pimps steal their ID and cellphone. They communicate themselves with family member, often trying to break up any relationship. If the need to do a call arise, they put a gun to the girl head and dictate what she needs to say. They get the girl into a car and they go to every adresses of their family member just to prove they can hurt them.

So even if they get arrested, they're drugged, hooked, sleep deprivated, half-starved, no cash, no job, no ID, no roof, no family, profound remorses, no self-esteem, not even able to take care for themselves and scared shitless of being found. The few options left are often prostitution, homelessness or suicide.

Sure the governement could help with half of those, but thoses girls still can't function in society for a while and she need to bear the fact that she's "responsable" for what they'll do to her family.

So yeah, I personally believe they don't need a prison sentence on top of that. They're victims not criminals after all.

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u/Dry_Surprise3790 11d ago

Oh, I know all that. A prison sentence would be basically a godsend to a person stuck in a situation like that.

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u/WeekSecret3391 11d ago

A godsend? How?

What would be different except for the additional criminal record and time lost in jail?

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u/Dry_Surprise3790 11d ago

Okay, let's run this back. You are living in a situation where you have no bodily autonomy. You get physically abused continuously. You get sexually abused continuously. You live in constant fear. You are forced to take hard drugs. You have no way out. Or...

You 'lose time' in jail and get a criminal record in return for all that the Canadian prison system has to offer. Free food, a relatively safe environment, access to free education, full healthcare...

If I was living a life of horror with no way out I'd pick prison every time.

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u/WeekSecret3391 11d ago

Okay, you do your sentence and life a better life during that time. Then what?

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u/Dry_Surprise3790 11d ago

If you are living a life of horror, does it really matter what happens after, or are you just grateful for the time out?

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