Florida Prosecutors are Starting to Get Sued for Taping Day Spa Customers Who Didn't Get Handjibbers
Source – A client who visited the same Florida spa under surveillance as part of a prostitution sting that led to New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and others being charged alleges his civil rights were violated in a federal lawsuit filed Monday.
The man, identified as “John Doe … was not among the 25 charged as a result of the sting that spanned five days.
The Jupiter Police Department, the detective who sought the warrant to install cameras inside the spa (Andrew Sharp) and the Palm Beach County State Attorney were listed as defendants in the lawsuit that seeks unspecified monetary damages. …
“John Doe received a massage, while undressed, in a private massage room,” but the lawsuit noted he “did not engage in any sexual or illegal activity at any time while receiving his massage.” …
Joseph Tacopina, one of the attorneys for John Doe, told USA TODAY Sports that he’s had discussions with dozens of others who visited the spa during the time period when Jupiter police’s surveillance was active and the litigation could turn into class-action litigation. Tacopina described John Doe as a regular customer of the spa. …
“There were male and females from their 20s to 70s. Not one went in there and had a sexual act performed on them, yet they are being videotaped in violation of their privacy rights.”
OK, so sure this “John Doe” and all the other males and female from their 20s to 70s were secretly videoed against their knowledge. While they were completely naked in a private room. Getting a therapeutic procedure that is perfectly legal. And sure, members of the police, sheriff’s deputies, the District Attorney, assistant DAs, the receptionist, the janitor and God knows who else all got to watch the tapes. But so what?
Who does this John Doe character think he is? A citizen? One who wasn’t breaking any laws? Entitled to privacy? And where does he think he is? America? Correction, snowflake. You’re living in the America of Detective Andrew Sharpe, Palm Beach County State DA Daniel Aronberg and William D. Snyder, the Martin County Sheriff (who has no jurisdiction but who grabbed the mic at all the press conferences like the drunk uncle at a wedding). They’ll tell you when you can and cannot get undressed in private without someone secretly rolling video. So step off, pal. Let them do their jobs.
Besides, lets not forget these prosecutors were hot on the trail of a major sex trafficking ring. Granted, it doesn’t exist. There was no trafficking. There were no sex slaves. But let’s not let little details like that get in the way of what really mattered in all this: Catching somebody famous getting whacked off. If a few dozens or hundreds of John and Jane Does wind up with videos of themselves bollocky naked in the hands of a bunch of unaccountable civil servants to catch a celebrity in the act, that’s a small price to pay. So they need to quit their whining about it.
William Blackstone in his work, “Commentaries on the Laws of England” said it best in a principle that later became known as “Blackstone’s Ratio.” He said “It is better to let a thousand innocent people get videotaped with their dongs and vaginas exposed than to let one widowed billionaire get away with paying for a handy.”
That’s justice, Florida style.