"The 22-year-old man was also wanted on warrants stemming from Quebec. Godbout had allegedly met the two women via social media. He recruited them to travel to Calgary under the pretense of a job. Upon arrival, Godbout allegedly attempted to force them into working in the sex trade. When one of the victims resisted, she was violently assaulted, being punched several times and had a gun held to her head." That is seriously messed up.
Have you seen the movie American Pimp?
ReplyDeleteI think society can do without someone like this.
ReplyDeleteThere is but one cure for these animals 💀
DeletePerhaps but in balancing the extremes we need to recognize that living off the avails is not noble. Snoop dog's song PIMP was a joke. Pimping is not cool. Beating women is not cool. Kidnapping a woman's kids and forcing her into prostitution then killing her when she tries to get out is really deranged. That's on Sonny Barger.
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The man needs to get a job and not force others into the sex trade for his benefit. Its nice that the Alberta police were able to arrest him.
ReplyDeleteRegarding the suggestion of "one solution". It doesn't really stop the type of activity he is engaged in and then where does it really end. My suggestion would be jail, not for a couple of weeks or a few months, but lets say 10 years and then he can be released on probation. It might not be a bad idea if people convicted of the type of offence he committed were fined also to pay for the health care the two women will need. Money owed to the Crown can sit as a debt for decades. Knew of one person who the government waited until they collected their CPP and advised, hold up, you owe us money. Jail and money should put a dent in things.
But do the threat of even long terms of jail and losing their CPP money equal actual protection from pimps? I doubt it. "A dent" implies some level of acceptance of the issue ongoing. 10 years may well be a deterrent as you say, but in our system as it currently rolls? Good luck with that, people don't do 10 years for murder. A couple years tops. If that. Now it's worth it. To pimps anyway. The damage they do to the victim lasts a lifetime. The punishment should be commensurate, somehow.
ReplyDeleteDoing something is better than doing nothing.
DeleteWhile that is hard to disagree with, sometimes it sounds like rationalizing, not actually solving the problem. Solving as in, "it's mostly" gone, we don't see that much any more". Not a dent, which sounds more like we might see a difference in the numbers if we looked hard. But if we can't muster up the energy for that, yeah, at least "something" is acknowledging the problem. Maybe if we acknowledge it enough we'll motivate ourselves enough to solve it. I can't think of anything worse than someone's daughter on the street with needle tracks, selling her body, and thereby her soul. Pimps steal souls, or at least parts of them, that can never be got back. That's the tragedy of it all.
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