Park City, Kansas MP raid

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Mayor mission: padlock escort service forever
By Les Anderson

When Park City Mayor Dee Stuart went along with police officers on a prostitution sting, what she saw changed her mind about why the business should be shut down.

“I’m on a mission now,” the mayor announced at Tuesday night’s city council meeting.

Stuart accompanied Park City police officers and Newton undercover officers on the bust in May at Body Worx, 5944 N. Broadway. Charges were filed against Arlando J. Trotter and Sharon Johnson, whom Stuart identified as Trotter’s wife and a co-owner of the business.

The charges against the owners included operating without an adult entertainment license, failing to display the license, promoting prostitution, permitting public nudity and operating an unlawful sexually oriented escort service. In addition, one of three young women at the business was charged with prostitution.

“If I have to sit across the street in a lawn chair with a camera to take pictures of license plates of cars going in, I’ll do that if that’s what it takes,” Stuart vowed. “I’ll take a two-hour shift, and I can find enough volunteers to help with the rest of the time.”

Stuart wants the doors to the business padlocked.

“We can’t expect the district attorney’s office to take these crimes seriously--they’re misdemeanors,” Stuart said at a news conference Tuesday in front of the business. “Ruining a young woman’s life is a Class A misdemeanor. Our hope is that the district court will allow us to padlock the premises for two years, and the business will disappear.”

["Ruining a woman's life?" By paying her rent, you dried out old bat? It's no wonder you're not taken seriously.]

Stuart said the attorney for the business owners, [his name], was correct when he stated that her motives in closing down the business were political.

“It was something that needed to be done for years, and I thought it would be something no one would expect from me,” the mayor said at the press conference. “Do the right thing for the city and possibly make some citizens more comfortable having me their mayor.”

That changed, Stuart said, when she went into the building after the arrests were made and saw the three young women in handcuffs. They were 18, 20 and 21 years old, she said. The youngest was charged with prostitution.

“One slightly built young woman had on baby doll pajamas with ‘Baby Girl’ printed across the front,” Stuart said. “These women are little more than girls about the age of my oldest grandsons. And when I looked at them, I just couldn’t see a rosy future for them. There isn’t one in that business.”

[It's midnight. Do you know where your grandsons are?]

Park City won’t tolerate unlawful businesses, Stuart said as four police officers, including Police Chief Bill Ball, stood behind her Tuesday morning.

“We promote an environment in which families can live and grow in comfort and security,” she said. “We absolutely will not tolerate the exploitation of the young women, who are the real victims of this crime.”

Stuart urged residents to contact state legislators to strengthen laws against prostitution--making them a felony instead of misdemeanors.

“The only way we will really crack down on these crimes against our society is to put some teeth in the prostitution laws,” she said. “I am urging the legislature to take this up when they reconvene in January.”

Over the past six years, the business just south of the former Don Hattan dealership has operated as Sensational Palace and Body Worx. During the four years from October 1999 to October 2003, Stuart said, there were 22 police calls to that address on 22 different dates. A total of 23 defendants were charged with 57 crimes, she added.

[asianwarrior]

What Dee Stuart doesn't realize is that its really not up to her to decide what consenting adults do. He sitting across the street in a lawn chair is over the top. Its not for her to decide what our morals are. We need some judical kahoonas to strike down these prostitution laws which are antiquated religious based standards from the early 1900s. Until then, every politicians is going to use the law to grandstand like this.

[asianwarrior]

If Dee Stuart wants to compare attrocities and apples to apples with regard to "sexual freedom", I wonder if she visited any abortion clinics. You know, where they kill the fetus and suck it out into a trash can. Perhaps the attrocities get worse on the "women's sexual freedom" end of things.