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Anyone can go to http://WWW.Backppage.com Asheville and find prostiution. Just look for escorts look up ID#16227235 her name is Salenia I know for a fact she has young girls in hotel rooms. I have been looking for my daughter and found her on this site, I know there is herion involved and Salina and her son find young scared drug addicted girls and give them herion and a hotel room for sex she profits from their addiction. Please I am a mother in great pain looking for help stopping her. I can’t believe this advertising is legel Anyone looking for their child who is being exploited please contact me at [email protected] I need support amoung other parents Help find our chrildren no matter their age they are still someones child.
Melissa:
While I support local law enforcement and applaud the APD in tackling some very tough issues these days I totally disagree with you and the APD on this shaming approach. I country is not Turkey or Iran where a person is guilty until proven innocent. Our country is innocent until proven guilty and the actions of the APD along with your support is basically convicting a person in the court of public opinion and shame due to the media technology revolution before an individual has had there day in a legal court which are constitution grants them as one of their rights.
Have you ever thought of how these actions might hurt and individuals ability to one day get their life back together and become a productive law abiding citizen?
The current actions by APD which you seem to be supporting will probably more then likely hinder a persons ability if not halt it to one day gain legal meaningful emplyment, etc.
Also the mailing of cards to homes of people whose license plates have been recorded driving through the areas, have you considered the conflicts and strife you may actually be causing in family homes in the area, even for the innocent individuals?
I really think these efforts by the APD are on the fringe of trampling on an individuals rights and I think down the road the APD and the City of Asheville maybe creating a future liability for taxpayers as in the form of a lawsuit because down the road I really believe someone who is found innocent will indeed sue and win.
also, clocky, the article says names and photos are being broadcast on TV, not just on the webpage. you don’t have to go looking for them anywhere, they’re piped into your house.
"APD will also be featuring the names and mugs on the city’s local cable channel, Charter 11."
a huge percentage (80%+) of prostitutes were sexually abused as children. take that into account before judging them and where their lives have led. the photo of the woman posted here Sarah Joy Korniotes looks like a sad lost child, not a criminal. why are we doing this?
clocky, i suppose if the APD wanted to run names of those found guilty i wouldn’t be opposed, though i think the photos are unnecessary. the convicted had a chance to tell their story. these people have not.
These are young girls being exploited by others for profit,no matter the age they are still someones child sad,and in alot of pain. Yes I agree these girls need help not public harm.please contact me [email protected] I need help for these girls
Ash, no lie, one of the women on there lives in my neighborhood. Not on my street, but she lives on my ‘side’ of the ‘hood, maaaaybe 2 miles away from my house in the ‘not-so-good’ part of my area. I know this because I see her walking up and down the road all the time, smoking cigarettes. Wondered why I hadn’t seen her in awhile. That’s nuts. Glad the APD is getting these people off the streets, especially the ones roaming my neighborhood!!!
What if the APD just posted the photos and names of those who plead (or are found) guilty?
Would that be OK with you, Bill in Ash Vegas? skippy?
Still, assuming someone is truly innocent, and got caught up in this shit somehow… how would they go about normal life in this small town, or even worse, in an even smaller town?
Seems kind of extreme to me, and I am betting some court will stop it.
basically, anything that isn’t hetero missionary is a crime against nature…which is ridiculous.
Oral Sex, woman on top, anything involving more than 1 partner, anal sex (whether hetero or gay), anything invloving a same sex partner, etc, etc.
It’s a sad purtianical toss back law that was never taken off the books in most states.
Good going, APD.
To answer Jeremy: the sex offender database, with photos, is already online.
No, prostitution isn’t among the worst crimes. But it’s still illegal.
The APD page only says that these people have been arrested (which is the truth, and it’s a matter of public record). These people still ARE innocent until proven guilty.
Some people seem to think that the APD arrests webpage is very different from a name appearing in the newspaper in an arrest report, I disagree. The arrest reports are in the Citizen-Times. Lots of people read the paper copies of the C-T, but the newspaper is also online. That’s a webpage. The APD postings are also on a webpage. People have to go looking for these webpages. The APD doesn’t push this information in anybody’s face. If you don’t want to know, don’t look at the webpage.
In fact, the arrest reports on the Citizen-Times website are located right alongside the everyday community news. There’s a possibility that an unwitting web-browsing person might click on that link that says "man accused of setting fire in bus". That person gets access to a whole list of APD arrestees.
The johns and hookers would run more risk of the whole community finding out if their arrests were listed in the Citizen-Times.
Bobaloo: It’s one of those ancient laws that’s brought up rarely, and in this case it was likely used because the guy was seeking sex with another man. According to sodomylaws.org, the law was amended to state that it doesn’t apply when the act is between consenting adults in privacy and is not for hire. Still, why slap this guy with a different charge just because of gender? Seems a bit archaic.
This issue of convicting someone in the media is one I struggled with (although I don’t guess I did anything to change it) during my days on the media side of the equation. Yes, arrests and mug shots are public record, but the opportunity for someone to go downtown and look up that information is far different from broadcasting or printing it for general public consumption. What do you think when you see a mug shot on TV: "I wonder if there is any evidence, sufficient to convince a jury, that this person did anything wrong" or "That’s the scumbag who did it"?
Maybe in this case, there really is video which clearly identifies these suspects, and maybe they’ll take a plea or be convicted based on that. But we all know that every person the police arrest is not guilty (the initial Mary Judd murder suspects, anyone?). To me the question is an ethical one: just because you have the legal right to broadcast a mug shot, is it ethically right to ruin the life of someone who might not be guilty of anything?
And don’t even get me started on the ethics of playing 911 tapes on the teevee news.
What the hell is "solicit for crimes against nature" anyway?
Thanks for the response and the details, Melissa. I realize the APD has a lot on its plate and this is not instead of everything else they do. If this is happening around children, yes, by all means clean it up. I suppose I’m of the mindset that sex for money, in theory, shouldn’t be illegal…it just depends on how you go about getting it and where you take it from there. I am with Skippy, however, on questioning the posting of mugshots of those charged but not convicted.
I understand, but disagree with much of the above sentiment. The local news media publishes arrests all the time and I don’t see letters of complaint about it.
These are individuals arrested in actual operations, who were recorded making the deal for prostitution. I have been on a sting, and there is no mistaking it when a man drives up — one had his kid in the car — and says he wants a blowjob for 20 bucks. I have no sympathy for that, but I do have sympathy for the people who live in neighborhoods like South French Broad and the kids at Asheville Middle and the YWCA who have to wade through this every day. Repeat arrests have done little to stem this — perhaps shame is all that’s left for the johns in particular.
Some people still seem to think prostitution is a victimless crime and that it’s beneath police to worry about it. I guess that’s only if it’s not happening in front of your house, or your children, or if you’re not a woman who’s indentured to some drug-dealing john who’s beating you senseless and raping you on a regular basis.
Distributing this information is in addition to all our department does, not INSTEAD of. And, actually, I’m the one disseminating it, and I’m a civilian employee of the APD. So it’s really not affecting our officers’ workload in any way at all.
As for drugs and gangs, we have a drug suppression unit and just started a gang unit. Those issues aren’t being ignored just because we post some arrests online.
I question the necessity of this; it seems disproportionate to the charge. It’s reminiscent of the Johnson City Press publishing of the photos and home addresses of men arrested for soliciting sex in a public park last year (leading to one of the men committing suicide).
Regardless, I think the APD should worry more about crimes that pose greater harm to the general public. How about devoting pages to people charged with child abuse/sex crimes against minors, violent crimes, etc.? And how about the gang problem that’s getting out of hand? To me, there are worse things than someone wanting to pay for sex. If they’re that desperate, more power to ’em.
Two adults one paying for sex and the other giving. But understand most of these young woman are someones child and their parent cant find them. Go to Backpage.comAsheville under escorts look up selenia I.D. # 16627235 I know she is using young scared drug addicted chrildren for her profit. I could not find my daughter for weeks and I found her on backpage. This woman gets kids using herion ,keeps them moving from hotel to hotel for old men to abuse them, most of these girls are very young the pain a parent lives looking for their loved child is tremendous and heart renching. Trust me I personally am there, If these girls are not drug addicted they will be, with her as there director. Salenias phone number is posted for all to call, please call her help end her prey on these girls. from a mom in pain
melissa the arrests are public record, sure, but broadcast with mugshots? no.
it’s like the scarlet letter times ten. what if somebody was in the wrong place at the wrong time and was wrongly charged. it happens. all the time. now their photo and name are broadcast across their whole city for being a hooker. broadcasting convicted offenders is one thing, but this doesn’t seem really fair to me.
Arrests, aside from those of juveniles, are public record.
skippy, good point.
we shall see, Day Later
And a story the paper will bring you Thursday.
wow, what happened to innocent until proven guilty? these people have been charged, not convicted.