Robert Kraft arrested

what a weird story.

zn wrote:

Benjamin Allbright@AllbrightNFL
I’ve been cracking jokes, but this actually looks like a really terrible situation.

This is a human trafficking sting, not a prostitution sting. The details here are awful.

Robert Kraft Charged With Soliciting Prostitution as Part of Large Sex Trafficking Investigation in Florida

Robert Kraft Charged With Soliciting Prostitution as Part of Large Sex Trafficking Investigation in Florida

Robert Kraft, the New England Patriots owner, is being charged with soliciting prostitution arising out of an investigation into a massage parlor in Florida, the Jupiter Police Department confirmed at a press conference. Earlier multiple calls from the Big Lead to the police department inquiring into Mr. Kraft were not returned.

Earlier this week, the Martin County Sheriff’s Department announced the results of an eight-month investigation into sex trafficking at several massage parlors in the Treasure Coast area of Florida, including Orchids of Asia in Jupiter. “Investigators uncovered about 100 ‘johns’, or end-users, who benefited from the ‘graphic sexual acts’ the trafficked women were forced to perform, according to [Martin County Sheriff William] Snyder.”

Jupiter is near Palm Beach, where Robert Kraft has a home.

Charges were developed on 26 male customers specifically for paying for sex acts at Orchids of Asia, according to a story about the arrest of those running the operation on Wednesday. At the press conference, the Jupiter Police confirmed that Kraft and the other johns are facing misdemeanor charges, punishable by the statute. The police also confirmed that they have video of Kraft engaged in sex acts at the location, and that he was driven to Orchids of Asia by someone else.

In the Palm Beach Post story from Tuesday about the sexual trafficking investigation, it said this about what took place at the Orchids of Asia:

The sexual activity at the spa, sandwiched among a surf shop, a nail salon, a game room and a Thai restaurant, is believed to be tied to an international human-trafficking and prostitution ring. Under state and federal law, human trafficking is defined as soliciting, recruiting, harboring, transporting or otherwise obtaining another person to exploit him or her for labor, domestic servitude or sexual exploitation. Florida ranks third in the nation in the number of cases reported to the national human-trafficking hotline.

A Department of Health investigator noted that two rooms in the Orchids of Asia Day Spa had beds as well as dressers, as well as a kitchen, indicating that people lived there.

Prostitution is often seen as a “victimless crime” but that’s certainly not true if human sex trafficking is involved. It will be interesting to see if Kraft knew about the sex trafficking. My guess is he did.

nittany ram wrote:

Prostitution is often seen as a “victimless crime” but that’s certainly not true if human sex trafficking is involved. It will be interesting to see if Kraft knew about the sex trafficking. My guess is he did.

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My wild-speculation is he didn’t want to know, so his brain allowed him not to know.
You know how human brains justify the unjustifiable.

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