If you have ever lied to someone just to get them to sleep with you, you
better read this before you land in prison...lol. There's a new bill
that's being looked into in New Jersey that would make having sex with
someone by lying to them a crime. It's called Sexual Assault by
deception.
For instance, if there was somewhere that a burned lover could turn to if she discovered that the man who told her he was childless not only had a 10-year-old, but also a pregnant side chick? That would be considered a crime if the bill passes.
For instance, if there was somewhere that a burned lover could turn to if she discovered that the man who told her he was childless not only had a 10-year-old, but also a pregnant side chick? That would be considered a crime if the bill passes.
Or if the person they're sleeping with showed them photos of a beautiful
home he claimed to own but in reality was living in his parents'
basement?
In other words, if a woman is duped into having sex they could have the man arrested.
Mischele Lewis, a 37-year-old suburban-mom-turned-activist is the inspiration behind this bill in New Jersey.
This bill was actually introduced late last year to make "sexual assault by fraud" a punishable offense.
The bill defines it as "an act of sexual penetration to which a person
has given consent because the actor has misrepresented the purpose of
the act or has represented he is someone he is not."
"I think it's important because trying to deceive anyone for the purpose of sexual gratification is just wrong," Lewis said. "Every person has the right to knowing consent. And before they consent to be intimate with anybody, they should absolutely know 100 percent who it is that they are being intimate with.
"Whether it's as simple as say they slip off their wedding ring and then they engage in a relationship with someone, but the man or woman has no idea that the person they are with is married," she added. "Lying to someone else for any reason is never OK, whether it be [for] a job, a relationship, criminal history, parental history, marital history . . .. When did we become a society that thinks it's completely acceptable to lie to other people on a daily basis and think that's morally OK?"
Should it pass, such a bill would open up a whole realm of possibilities for tricked lovers.
"On the one hand, we want law enforcement to have the law on their side
in order to go after sexual predators who try to lure victims into
sexual situations through deceit," pointed out Kathleen Bogle, assistant
professor of sociology and criminal justice at La Salle University. "On
the other hand, many people lie to get sex and we may not want to cast
too broad of a net in pursuing these situations through criminal law.
"Most people would agree that lying to obtain sex is immoral, but only a
fraction of those scenarios should be punishable by criminal law," she
added.
She's right about not clogging up the legal system.
But there's such a thing as principle. As Yale law professor Jed Rubenfield wrote in a 2013 edition of the Yale Law Review,
"Rape-by-deception is almost universally rejected in American criminal
law. But if rape is sex without the victim's consent - as many courts,
state statutes and scholars say it is - then sex-by-deception ought to
be rape, because as courts have held for a hundred years in virtually
every area of the law outside of rape, a consent procured through
deception is no consent at all."
Meanwhile, Lewis, whose dating horror story was chronicled in the Daily
News last year and later on NBC's "Dateline," is recuperating from the
shock of discovering that the man she met on an online dating site back
in 2013 was a con artist.
Not only had the man she knew as Liam Allen lied to her about his legal
name, but instead of being some sort of secret agent of the British
government, as he claimed, he had served time in the U.K. for bigamy. He
also had failed to register as a sex offender and had been convicted of
indecent assault of a minor.
But back when she was falling madly in love, Lewis, a labor and delivery
nurse, knew nothing about Jordan's nefarious ways. When she was handing
over $5,000 for a phony security clearance, she had no clue that she
was just Jordan's latest victim.
In November, he pleaded guilty to third-degree theft by deception and was ordered to pay restitution. He's currently serving a three-year prison sentence in New Jersey.
In November, he pleaded guilty to third-degree theft by deception and was ordered to pay restitution. He's currently serving a three-year prison sentence in New Jersey.
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