Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, is a 78-year-old widower who is currently facing federal charges for allegedly paying a 45-year-old legally licensed masseur in Florida to massage an especially delicate part of his body. Months of undercover police work, hidden cameras and multiple raids revealed Florida law enforcement’s obsession with Asian massage parlors, but no evidence of human trafficking.
Kraft got caught up in a “John sting,” an easy way for police departments to appear as if they are doing something to combat sex trafficking. These often high-profile raids rarely result in trafficking prosecutions, but rather prostitution or solicitation charges for the consenting adults caught in the act.
In Kraft’s case, multiple law enforcement agencies spent months pouring over hidden camera footage and rummaging through the trash of almost a dozen massage parlors.
The women were threatened with multiple felony charges unless they cooperated with police. Officers assured the public that they had broken up an international human trafficking cartel. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is no evidence of trafficking, or violence, or coercion. This was not a rescue operation. Police officers raided almost a dozen immigrant-owned businesses, traumatized at least 19 adult women and publicly humiliated hundreds of men, one of whom happens to own a football team. These raids are happening all over the country.
Time and money spent hunting grown-ups for doing consensual adult things with each other could be used to test rape kits, investigate reports of sexual violence and provide emergency support to victims.
But politicians aren’t advocating for better victim’s services; they’re asking for more arrests. Legislators throughout the country are trying to increase raids on massage parlors, increase surveillance at hotels and make men like Robert Kraft register as a sex offenders.
So, Florida finally dropped all charges against Robert Kraft this week. The state prosecutor said the following:
“Individuals with significant means have the ability to hire the best lawyers and investigators to dissect every decision point made by law enforcement to find a weak spot and then exploit it to achieve an acquittal or a dismissal.”
Translation: According to the state’s attorney, you’re not going to get justice in Florida unless you’re rich.
I wonder if Mr. Kraft were approached FAC, NARSOL, or ACSOL, would he possibly be interested in helping support our cause either monetarily or openly., now that he’s had a taste of how it really goes.
He may just want to help “stick it” to Florida after his ordeal.
America has a serious ‘mental’ problem, and this is one of the main examples.
The best thing YOU each can do is to vote for people that are NOT former prosecutors, such as a recent presidential candidate.
Vote for SMALLER government, as that will require it to be more efficient with its resources.
If you simply vote for either “Republican” or “Democrat” then your allegiance is to a party, and not to humanity. You are part of the problem in this country.
Also beware of candidates who PROCLAIM that they favor “smaller government.” Especially if they advocate bigger budgets for law enforcement to track former offenders and conduct stings.
You are so right. I never vote for anyone, including local judges, who have been prosecutors. They are biased and cannot be fair. Not in their DNA.
Yep, what they’re doing (their true intentions) are becoming more and more apparent, and with more people being trapped in these traps that serve no one but the purposes of some very sick and twisted individuals who are hiding in our legal system, we’re getting closer and closer to exposing all truths behind it all.
After, everything I have seen, heard, and experienced, I personally think that these sex sting operations, besides the obvious reason (MONEY), are also being done as a part of a cover up for the real sex traffickers and even child predators who are either paying off law enforcement, government officials, and other people in our legal system, to create these distractions by making it seem that they are addressing the sex trafficking and child predator problems, while they are actually covering up the real problem. Some of them may actually be behind the sex trafficking business themselves or actual child predators themselves. That’s why they’re so obsessed with falsely accusing others of it.
These types of operations are sponsored/funded by the Federal government. If I’m not mistaken it falls under the same section as the funding for the ICAC operations as well.
As sad as it is to say this, but it might do some good if more wealthy and powerful people were convicted of sex crimes, than we might have some serious people backing us and communities like FAC.
Honestly this is sad to say but i hope he has to register. If he does he will have the means to fight most of these horrible limitations we have and actually make a dent for the good.
Wow! Well said!