[SWAF-Potluck] Fwd: [FIRST] New Zealand: Police help short-changed sex worker

[Lorna Gale Fulton]

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Lorna Gale
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On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 2:02 PM, Ki Bournes <ki at massagebyki.com> wrote:

>  This one is great.
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> -------- Original Message --------  Subject: [FIRST] New Zealand: Police
> help short-changed sex worker  Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2014 09:31:18 -0700  From:
> Joyce Arthur <joycearthur at shaw.ca> <joycearthur at shaw.ca>  Reply-To: FIRST
> <first at cybersolidaires.org> <first at cybersolidaires.org>  To: 'FIRST'
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>  http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11292537
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> Kirsty Wynn
> <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/kirsty-wynn/news/headlines.cfm?a_id=760>
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> Kirsty Wynn is a senior reporter at the Herald on Sunday.
> Police help short-changed sex worker
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> 10:51 AM Sunday Jul 13, 2014
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> Police resolved a dispute between a sex worker and a client who refused to
> pay — by escorting the man to a cash machine to settle his $100 bill.
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> The client had refused to pay the woman who had been working on Maich Rd
> in Manurewa, South Auckland, on Thursday night.
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> Police settled the matter by driving the man home to get his wallet,
> taking him to an ATM and then delivering the cash to the worker.
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> Prostitutes Collective Auckland co-ordinator Annah Pickering was checking
> on prostitutes in the area and was amazed to see the exchange unfold. "I
> was parked up and saw it all happen like a movie," Pickering said. "We have
> heard of this happening in the city anecdotally, but to see it happen in
> front of you is one in a million."
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> Pickering, an advocate for prostitutes' rights, was handing out condoms to
> workers on the street and got talking to the sex worker, a woman in her 30s.
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> "I didn't get into the details of what the transaction was over or what
> the request was for the job," Pickering said. "But it was a dispute over
> him paying." Pickering later saw police in the car with the man and watched
> as they waited while he withdrew money from the ATM.
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> "I drove back to the worker later and she said the police officer took the
> client to his home to get his wallet and then he made sure he paid the
> worker what she was owed."
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> Pickering praised police for defusing the situation and protecting the sex
> worker's rights to be paid "like any other worker".
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> A Counties Manukau police spokesperson said the incident was common. "It
> sounds remarkable but it is a routine thing. Police would help any citizen
> having a disagreement whether they were a sex-worker or working in a pizza
> shop," Katherine Manaton said.
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> - Herald on Sunday <http://www.facebook.com/HeraldOnSunday>
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