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Papa Says, 'If You See it on Craigslist, It's So'

By Bruce Carton

How long will it be until we need to have statutes along the lines of the following: "It shall be no defense to any crime established under this Code that an advertisement on Craigslist invited the defendant to engage in the prohibited act." -or- "It shall be no defense to any crime established under this Code that the defendant did not personally perform the crime, but rather tricked someone else into performing the crime through an ad on Craiglist." Based on recent events, we actually may need these statutes already. As I observed back in April, losers are already using Craigslist to issue fake posts inviting people to have sex with unsuspecting women who are supposedly "looking for lust." This type of false solicitation, unfortunately, leads many other non-Mensa members similarly "looking for lust" to go to the woman's house, knock on her door, and worse -- in one case, a woman was allegedly raped following a phony "rape fantasy" post directed at her by an ex-boyfriend. The Orlando Sentinel reports (via Turley) that the latest "Craigslist made me do it" crime comes from Florida, where Vanessa Kimball was upset that a neighbor, Robert Andrews, had left a trailer packed...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on July 06, 2010 (boomark / email).