sex trafficking

  Florida Prostitution and Human Trafficking Defense Lawyer

 Aggressive law enforcement stings are on the rise in Florida. Undercover police officers in Hillsborough County even try and create Human Trafficking cases by posing as escorts on Internet Escort sites, first as an adult, and then switching the age to 17 when a customer falls for the bait.  In doing so they make a simple misdemeanor prostitution charge into a life felony human trafficking case.  In other Florida Counties the police run the typical Internet Sex Stings, trying to bait men into offering money to a minor to elevate the misdemeanor charges to a life felony.

The sex sting police chatters regularly troll the social media sites looking for weak lonely men.

They post as adults on Grinder, Plenty O Fish, Meetme.com and all the escort sites,  and use Instagram, KIK, Snapchat and other applications to target men who were not even remotely looking for a minor.  Many times it is pure Entrapment and it takes an experienced Sex Crime Lawyer to put forth and establish a really solid legal defense.

The typical human trafficking case involves people forcing women to to engage in sex for money.  Many times, these are women who are addicted to drugs, or women who have been lured here from another Country, often in South or Central America or Eastern Europe with false promises of a job in America.

Many times the charge of human trafficking is a trick to stay in this Country, by an illegal immigrant.  An immigrant can obtain a "witness visa" and stay in the country for years simply by making themselves a witness in a human trafficking case.  There is a motive to lie and falsely accuse someone,  to simply stay in this Country.

Police are now running prostitution stings on the Internet.  They post as adult escorts and then when men reply charge them with "soliciting for prostitution".  This is classic Entrapment.  The crime originates in the mind of the police, and they do it to run up arrest statistics.  Prostitution has been described as the "World's oldest Profession" and has been with us since the beginning of time.  For the police it simply makes good press.  For the man arrested, it is an humiliating traumatic experience.

These cases often have very solid defenses.  The police are creating crime!

If you or a loved one was arrested in a prostitution sting or even one of the local stings where a female detective is "working the street", talk to a lawyer before you plea guilty.  You may have been entrapped and illegally arrested.

 Call 941-366-3506 today. Defense Attorney Peter Aiken will review the facts and law with you and explain your legal options.