Stiff fine for sex-worker
2001-07-23 20:04
Cape Town - A prostitute's brazen approach to a policeman in a patrol vehicle at the Sea Point outlet of McDonalds, offering him sex for R150, has cost her a fine of R2 000 or 12 months in jail.
On Monday, Cape Town Magistrate Hennie le Roux told sex-worker
Coriddene Isaacs, 29, that prostitution was a community problem,
and that stiff fines were the only way to curb it.
Le Roux told her that ordinary run-of-the-mill fines were
inappropriate, as they would be seen by the community as a mere rap on the knuckles. He declined her request to be allowed until Monday to raise the money.
Isaacs pleaded guilty to soliciting Sergeant Colin Swart, following her arrest on July 13. She told the court he had invited her into the vehicle, after she had asked if he wished to "do business".
She said her price for sex had been R150, although she had also had a "massage" in mind for Swart.
Swart had arrested her when she got into the vehicle with him, she told the court.
Asked why she did it, she replied: "Because that's what I do for a living."
She told the court she earned on average R300 a day.
It was not immediately known if Isaacs was able to raise enough to pay the fine.
- SAPA