Category: Assault & Violent Offences
Final arguments in pimping trial delayed
The city will have to wait to hear if a judge takes it to task for its escort bylaw, which a former firefighter is arguing [...]
Detective admits escorts left alone
Though many licensed escort agencies obviously offer sex for cash, Calgary police refuse to prosecute for prostitution unless someone complains. That was the candid admission [...]
Alleged pimp to argue no crime done
The city has legalized prostitution – that's the argument being put to a judge at the pimping trial of a form Calgary firefighter that began [...]
Accused claims prostitution legal
Suspected pimp, the accused, was told by police and city officials that the escort industry fronted sex trade was legal, he testified yesterday. The accused [...]
Escort licences mulled at trial
Calgary escorts must be fingerprinted in case they end up dead in a ditch, the city’s chief licence inspector said yesterday. Mare Halat told a [...]
Definitely not your opera date
Strictly speaking, the city has not legalized prostitution. But, in licensing escort agencies, it has entered a morally compromised area. And, it should leave it. [...]
Courtroom ‘dramedy’ shows just how blind city officials choose to be
“For $50, I learned you could ‘relate without getting close.’ For $100, a girl would lend you her Bartok records, have dinner and then let [...]
Prostitute’s last known john talks
Hours before tumbling into her death from the 22nd floor of a Vancouver hotel room, a Calgary escort was selling sex for cash, a pimping [...]
Man who chased attacker no vigilante, lawyer argues
CALGARY - Was [the accused] being a helpful citizen or a vigilante when he pursued a teen into a residence after the teen allegedly assaulted [...]
Court finds man justified in chasing teen who assaulted man
Cochrane’s [accused] was justified in chasing an assault suspect into a home, but went too far when he bashed in a bedroom door. That’s what [...]