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The Annoyed Man wrote:Hey, even Gov. Moonbeam is, like a broken clock, right once in a while. This new California law about child prostitution is being WAY misinterpreted and misrepresented in social media. Sex trafficking of children is a serious problem - even right here in Texas, even in Fort Worth. When a minor, who is being forced into prosecution, is arrested, how likely is it that this child will then testify against either the pimp or the john? Not very likely, if that testimony will ALSO get the child thrown behind bars! What this new law does is protect minors, who have been forced into sex trafficking by criminal adults, from having to face the possibility of a criminal conviction. Charges will still be brought against the pimps and johns who abuse those minors, but the minors themselves will not be charged. Instead, they will be RESCUED from prostitution — AS IT SHOULD BE — and the pimps and johns thrown in jail.

Now, it is certainly possible that some small number of teenagers will take advantage of this law for their own financial benefit, but the ones who do will be far outnumbered by the ones whom the law rescues.

But that doesn't satisfy the salacious needs of social media to convey faux shock and outrage over something which is both poorly understood, and often deliberately ignored by grownups. I found out the truth by googling the headline, because it seemed just at little TOO outrageous for even me to believe.