California State Senator Scott Wiener Is Obsessed With Reducing or Eliminating Penalties for Having Sex With Children. Even the New York Times Magazine Now Notices That Police Can't Act Against the Child Traffickers Weiner Worked So Hard to Immunize.

John Sexton has great background for Wiener's constant advocacy for reduced penalties for sex crimes, including statutory rape of a minor and sex trafficking.

Although Weiner is always the one writing, proposing, and fighting for these laws, the diseased groomer California legislature voted to make them law.

And Gavin Newsom signed them into law.

Wiener claims he's doing this, you see, just to protect the all-precious trans community. He claims that trans people are arrested on the street not for prostitution, but just for looking a certain kind of way.

Via Sexton's article: Abigail Shrier writing for City Journal:

Why would anyone propose such a law? Why would the California State Legislature pass it? I asked the bill's author, San Francisco--based state senator Scott Wiener. The answer he gave is the one that he supplies for so many of the bills he authors: it was necessary to advance the rights of LGBTQ people. "If you are standing on the sidewalk with high heels, and you wear your hair a certain way, and you wear tight clothing, an officer can say, 'I think you're loitering with the intent to commit prostitution' and arrest you," Wiener said. "That is not how we should be doing things in the United States of America--arresting people for how they look," he continued. "And when you do that, not surprisingly, it's only certain kinds of people who actually get arrested: it's trans women. It's black women. . . . It's an inherently profiling law," he said. "Randomly arresting a bunch of black trans women for how they look is not protecting potential victims of human trafficking."

But were the police indeed "randomly arresting a bunch of black trans women"? The anti-trafficking advocates I spoke with dispute this. For starters, Wilson, Powell, and Russell (all of whom are African-American) say that biological women and girls--not transgender individuals--constitute the vast majority of those trafficked. Nearly every report on human trafficking by global human rights organizations confirms this observation.

And why does Scott Wiener demand that we reduce penalties for paying underaged children to give adult men blowjobs?

Not for any reasons of personal interest, no, don't be silly. Wiener wants to abolish the crime of statutory rape of a minor because... well, gee, you wouldn't send an 18 year old to jail for paying $20 to a 17 year old for a blowjob, would you?

An 18 year old paying a 17 year old $20 for a blowjob is the prototypical situation where statutory rape charges are brought, right? So best to scrap the law entirely.

Now that Wiener's groomer laws are in effect, cops say they can't arrest the pimps and human traffickers parading them out on the street. Wiener's Groomer Laws establish that it's no crime to pay a child for sex.

So admits the left-wing masturbatory aid The New York Times Magazine.

Ana paced on the sidewalk at 68th and Figueroa, her front teeth missing and an ostomy bag taped down under her hot pink lingerie.

An ostomy bag collects urine and feces from the body. I don't know why "she" is wearing it. Maybe so as not to need the bathroom due to streetwalking, maybe because of... surgical improvements.

We'll see.

She surveyed the intersection in South Central Los Angeles, where preteens were hobbling in stilettos and G-strings. It was a Tuesday night this January, and Ana knew that most of the girls longed for a coat or gloves -- anything to keep them warm -- but covering up was not an option. Their eyes were cast down, but their hands waved mechanically at every car, angling for another customer to help meet their traffickers' quotas.

Ana was working, too, but the years had worn down any visceral anxiety into something more like resignation. Ana was 19, but the girls on the street reminded her of herself and her sister when they were first put out on Figueroa for sex. She had been 13. Her sister, 11.

Their story had been unoriginal, at least for this street: foster kids turned runaways turned recruits, drawn in by a new friend on Instagram who offered to help them get by. The friend dropped Ana and her sister off at a motel on Figueroa and handed them lacy bikinis. Ana asked what they were for. They needed to turn in $800 each by morning, the friend said. They stood on a corner, shivering. It would take at least half a dozen customers each.

Remember, you can't arrest these children and put them into social services because the pedophile advocate Scott Wiener says that trans people are just arrested on the street for no reason at all.

So we'll just have to get used to child rape, just like six-year-old girls will just have to get used to seeing men's dicks in their changing rooms.

By now, Ana had grown accustomed to the protocols of the Blade, a roughly 50-block stretch of Figueroa Street that had become one of the most notorious sex-trafficking corridors in the United States.

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The Blade was an eight-minute drive from the University of Southern California, and yet another universe. Parents pushed strollers past the trafficked girls as they took their own children to school. Amid boarded-up storefronts were a few that catered specifically to the trade: a smoke shop with the banner "free Magnum condom with any purchase" and a lingerie store named -- in cursive -- Sluts. Figueroa seemed to be the one street in all of Los Angeles where nobody ever honked: Customers waited politely, as if in line at a drive-through, to peruse the menu and take their pick.

Over the years, the Blade had become much busier than when Ana started: more girls, more customers, more traffickers idling in their Hellcats and Porsches on the side streets, watching to make sure their girls didn't hide any money and didn't snitch. Ana had seen the Blade expand from three main intersections of Figueroa to more than three miles. She had met girls brought in from the East Coast and the Deep South, and there sometimes seemed to be four times as many minors as before -- easy to spot by their over-the-top makeup and unsteady gait. The police helicopters Ana used to notice hovering overhead with search lights seemed to become infrequent. Eventually, she said, they disappeared completely.

In the shadows, Figueroa had become more violent. The younger the girl, the more customers would pay, which meant preteens were often being robbed and assaulted by groups of older girls trying to make quota.

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Ten blocks south of Ana, Officer Elizabeth Armendariz was sitting in the passenger seat of an undercover Ford Five Hundred, holding a police radio to her mouth. She pushed her hair off her shoulder and assigned positions to each of the vice-unit vehicles participating in the night's operation.

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Armendariz's eyes darted among the half-dozen girls in the intersection. She chose a blonde with a white hair bow, who looked especially young.

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For the 77th Street Division, which covers the northern half of the Figueroa Corridor, prostitution had always been a problem. But in recent years, the officers had seen the magnitude of child sex trafficking explode. Part of that boom happened during the pandemic, when many girls were out of school and immersed in social media, where traffickers lurked. Teachers who would ordinarily follow up on absences or report signs of neglect could not.

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Their jobs grew even more challenging when California repealed the law allowing the police to arrest women who loitered with the intent to engage in prostitution. The repeal, known as SB 357, was intended to prevent profiling of Black, brown and trans women based on how they dressed. But when it was implemented in January 2023, the effect was that uniformed officers could no longer apprehend groups of girls in lingerie on Figueroa, hoping to recover minors among them. Now officers needed to be willing to swear they had reason to suspect each girl was underage -- but with fake eyelashes and wigs, it was nearly impossible to tell. One girl told vice officers that her trafficker had explained things succinctly: "We run Figueroa now," he said.

Soon every intersection from Gage to Imperial had girls waving and waiting to be rented out, some of them imported by traffickers from Oregon or Texas or Alabama. By the end of 2023, the city attorney had taken to calling Figueroa the Kiddie Stroll because so many of the girls weren't even 13.

The girl in the white hair bow didn't look much older than that.

"You're not in trouble, sweetheart -- we want to help you," an officer shouted to her as he jumped out of his patrol car. She tried to hide. Armendariz cracked open her tinted window just enough to see the officer grab the girl's wrists, cuff them and turn her toward a fence. Then Navarro veered slowly back into the flow of traffic, undetected. Armendariz shook her head. Up close, the girl had road burn across her stomach and a busted blood vessel in her eye.

"Female detained," she said into the radio. "Thank you, guys."

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More than half of the underage girls pulled from the Blade turned out to be from foster care. Even for those who were not runaways, the stories were the same: Traffickers had parked their cars in front of local group homes, waiting for a chance to approach. There were the "Romeo" types, who would flatter a girl, take her on a few dates and then send her out to the Blade. And then there were the "gorilla" types, who acquired a girl by brute force.

By the time Ana was 19, she had been put on the street by at least 17 people, she says -- mostly men, a few women, all of them with fancy cars and strict rules. Ana's face, neck and hands had been tattooed with their monikers, as if she were cattle. They had shuttled her among at least five different cities but, like other girls, she always seemed to end up back on Fig.

I know this is hard to read but, speaking as black woman and immigrant, I think it's important to say emphatically that women and girls just do not matter. The only thing that matters is Trans Comfort.

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After the rescue at 77th Street, Armendariz headed back to the station to start paperwork. The number of rescues in the past few months had far surpassed any in the division's recent history, but that meant she was always buried in reports.

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Within a week in the new position, she was galvanized. She could not believe what traffickers were getting away with on the Blade. When Armendariz was 13, she had been in the youth cadet program and was focused on roller skating and Taylor Swift and the annual family trip to Disneyland. But here were girls whose faces had been burned with cigarette butts; whose nails had been pulled off; whose hair had been set on fire; or who had been held down in a bathtub and shocked with a Taser. There were stories of girls who had simply disappeared.

Speaking as a black female immigrant, Scott Wiener is Ultimate Gay Hero.

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Within eight months, Armendariz was promoted and became the senior officer in the unit, designing creative operations the team could run with its skeleton staff. Fueled by caffeine, nicotine and Tums, the team's rescues shot up, from just 15 in 2023 -- when SB 357 first took effect -- to 54 in 2024 and a fast-rising 2025 figure set to surpass 100. There were days Armendariz took the team out at 6 a.m. and secured multiple rescues before 9. But there was also a depressing reality to the growing list: the number of repeat names.

Earlier that night, officers pulled Ajena, 15, from the Blade for the third time. Armendariz had never met a child with such street loyalty. Ajena's trafficker had just hours earlier split her lip, because she smirked at him, and threatened to shoot her in the leg if she walked away. She still spit on the officer who asked her to share his identity, and when her cellphone rang, his contact came up as "Daddy."

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Armendariz started her report about the girl with the white hair bow. Her name was Jeziah, and she was 17. According to the logs, tonight's rescue was her first, and Armendariz could tell: She was the first girl in a long time who said she wanted help getting out.

"I'm fresh," the girl said to an officer in Interview Room 216, curled up with a Cup Noodles and a new teddy bear. Just a few months earlier, her new boyfriend put her on the Blade to help with bills, then took her phone and started forcing her to stay out there all night. "You get into something with somebody, and you think it's one thing -- I thought totally wrong."

She touched the road burn on her stomach. He had dragged her down the street by her hair. Her eyes began to well with tears, but she blinked them away.

"Life just be life-ing," she said.

Ana was beaten so badly she wound up in intensive care with, among many other injuries, a ruptured colon. Thus the ostomy bag.

A former trafficker reached out to Ana, meanwhile, wanting to reconnect as friends. As soon as Ana taught herself to walk again, he pulled up outside the house and put her on Figueroa -- more than 50 pounds lighter, with the ostomy bag and without her front teeth. He made plans to tattoo her neck again with his name -- in the same spot where Forsythe had helped have it erased.

Life away from Fig had turned out to be both hard and complicated. Life back on Fig was hard, but simple.

On Thursday night, Armendariz stood at 70th and Figueroa in a black mesh top and pumps, her purse outfitted with a recording device. She dangled a strip of condoms from her bra strap. She knew there was only so much evidence she could gather secondhand, and at 4-foot-10, Armendariz could pass as a juvenile in the dark. Now cars were lining up for her.

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Once they made a deal, Armendariz told each customer to wait for her around the corner, then dropped a signal to other officers that he could be followed and arrested there. She sighed. She didn't want this petty stuff: The city attorney's office rejected about half of the case filings against customers Armendariz caught on Figueroa, she said, and most others who were convicted ended up with probation. What she really wanted was to clinch another trafficker.

If you think that the relentless advocate for pedophilia and child rape Scott Wiener is some unpopular fringe figure in California, then, speaking as a black lesbian immigrant, I have to say you're all wet.

He's popular and powerful enough that he's running for US Congress. To replace Nancy Pelosi. Who I assume told him privately she would retire, otherwise he wouldn't challenge her.

posted by Ace at 02:10 PM

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