Originally posted by John Blackthorne
Any of the legal types wanna comment on the charges? She was not caught in the act, doesn't seem like much can happen to her.
JB
You're right in that it does not seem she is being charged with prostitution, but rather "promoting prostitution." It's impossible to tell from the news blurb what evidence the State has to support the "Promoting Prostitution" charge.
NJSA 2C:34-1(4) defines "promoting prostitution" as any one of the following seven acts:
(a)Owning, controlling, managing, supervising or otherwise keeping, alone or in association with another, a house of prostitution or a prostitution business;
(b)Procuring an inmate for a house of prostitution or place in a house of prostitution for one who would be an inmate;
(c)Encouraging, inducing, or otherwise purposely causing another to become or remain a prostitute;
(d)Soliciting a person to patronize a prostitute;
(e)Procuring a prostitute for a patron;
(f)Transporting a person into or within this State with purpose to promote that person's engaging in prostitution, or procuring or paying for transportation with that purpose; or
(g)Leasing or otherwise permitting a place controlled by the actor, alone or in association with others, to be regularly used for prostitution or promotion of prostitution, or failure to make a reasonable effort to abate such use by ejecting the tenant, notifying law enforcement authorities, or other legally available means.