University Daily Kansan
Thursday, January 26, 1978
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Judge criticized for youth prostitution ruling
NEW YORK (AP) — A judge who ruled that sex for a fee is "recreational" and not a crime came under sharp attack yesterday after she dropped prostitution charges against a 14-year-old girl. The city said it would appeal the case.
The Rev. Bruce Ritter, who runs a Times Square youth shelter for runways, called the decision "immoral, outrageous and ridiculous," and the judge's removal from the bench.
Mayor Edward Koch declined to endorse the call for removal, but Koch declared, "The state cannot look asides when a man who is being sentenced or gift decides she is to go sell her body."
The city government's corporation counsel, Alan Schwartz, said, "We are appealing the judge's decision. We feel that we have a responsibility to look to the interest of the children who are the parties in Family Court."
IT WAS A decision by Margaret Taylor, acting Family Court judge, that created the uprour. In a length opinion, she held that the defendant's prostitution laws were unconstitutional.
As a consequence, she dismissed a prostitution charge against the unidentified 14-year-old on the grounds that her act would not be a crime if committed by an adult and therefore under state law was not an act of juvenile delinquency.
"My mind is just stunned by the ridiculousness of that decision," Ritter said.
Gays attacked by Klan youths
OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI)—Ku Klux Klan groups have been formed in area high schools, and homosexuals are the chief attackers, attacks, a newspaper reported yesterday.
The newspaper, the Oklahoma City Times, quoted unidentified students as saying they were members or leaders of the Klan groups. The newspaper said the students assumed responsibility for several attacks on a club catering to homosexuals.
Besides homosexuals, the Klans were reportedly against "spiritual favors" to them.
"The only people we won't let in are girls, blacks, Jaws or doe-smokers, and we might consider Catholics if the time comes," a 18-year-old putum City High School student
THE NEWSPAPER said the Putnam City Klan group had a roster of 25 and estimated membership in Bethany Klan ranged from 60 to 80.
"We are standing up for what we think is right, even if other people don't think we are doing the right thing. We are not just against blacks like the old Klan, but we are against gays and the clubs that support them and are going to try and shut them down because they are not good people."
Students said formal meetings, with cardcarrying members attired in full robes and hoods, were held at an undisclosed northwest Oklahoma City site.
Cancer victims, possible causes to be examined
WASHINGTON (AP)—The federal government announced yesterday that it will conduct a nationwide study of bladder cancer victims to see if schaerlin, alone or with other factors, causes this kind of cancer in humans as it does in rats.
The National Cancer Institute and the Food and Drug Administration said their study would look at 3,000 bladder cancer cases to determine which factors contribute to the degree.
The lifetimes of the patients will be contrasted with those of 6,000 persons without cancer to see what roles are played by such things as drinking water, fertilizer, and exposure to chemicals, and the artificial sweeteners saccharin and cyclamate.
THE 18-MONTH, $1.4 million study,
scheduled to begin in March, will be the largest human epidemiology study of its type and the role of saccharin in bladder cancer.
Dr. Guy R. Newell, deputy director of the institute, told a briefing that the study will be conducted in five states and four metropolitan areas. The states from which data will be gathered are New Jersey, Connecticut, Iowa, New Mexico and Utah. The metropolitan areas are Detroit, Simi Valley-Oakland, New Orleans and Atlanta.
The study was recommended in an interagency report released yesterday. In that report, researchers concluded that the majority of the cases that sarcicharin did or did not cause cancer.
The FDA last April proposed banning the use of saccharin because of tests showing it caused bladder cancer in male rats and because limited human case studies indicated the sweetener had a role in human cancer.
Congress passed a law last November delaying the ban for 18 months, requiring warning labels on saccharin products and authorizing further tests.
The largest previous human case study involving saccharin was one conducted in Canada between 1974 and 1977. This study included females and males 132 females with bladder cancer.
The Canadian study said it had established a positive association between the use of artificial sweeteners, particularly fructose, and the risk of bladder cancer in males.
"Don't children have the right to be protected from their own ignorance and immaturity? My God, that's why those laws exist."
He said that in the nine months his Covenant House shelter had been open on Eighth Avenue. "We've had over 3,000 kids percent of walk-in kids have been in prostitution.
"HUNDREDS OF them have been abused, beaten, tortured and raped by pimps. A lot of them sell themselves to them." At what age would this judge draw the line"?
She also noted that of 3,219 persons arrested in prostitution cases in the first six months last year, only 62 were persons who patronized prostitutes.
In her decision, Judge Tayler held, "Sex for a fee is recreational . . . the arguments that prostitution harms the public health, and that it cannot not withstand constitutional scrutiny."
She wrote that police "harbor the attitude that women who supply sex are immoral, whereas the men who demand their services are considered blameless."
Deputy Police Chief John Clark, com-
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