Scene “Didi” Combes is sentenced on Friday for violating the Federal Mann Act, an anti -prostitution law with a century old history.
Although he was acquitted from allegations of sex trafficking and racketoring, Comombs were convicted in July for flying to people across the country, including his girlfriends and male sex workers, convicted for engaging in trees sexual encounters.
The Honor Act makes it illegal to transport someone in state lines for the purpose of prostitution or other illegal sex acts.
Over the years, the law used R&B Superstar R. Kelly, Jeffrey has been prosecuted against Epstein Partner Ghishline MaxwellComposer Chuck Berry And, more than a century, boxer Jack Johnson,
According to the legal information institute of Cornell Law School, its comprehensive word and later the interpretation of the Supreme Court allowed prosecutors to bring cases against inter -caste couples, and eventually many others in consent relations.
The law was amended in the 1980s and today a lot of honors acts were included in the state lines for sexual objectives.
What do you know about the law here.
Why it is called the value act
In 1910, Congress The bill was passed, named Republican US Rape. Illinois’s James was named after Robert Mann.
It is also known as the 1910 “White-Sweet Traffic Act”.
How it applies to the case of combs
Comombs was convicted in cases associated with two former girlfriends: R&B singer and a woman who testified under the name Pseudo Jane,
The two women stated in the test that Combes had pressured them to humiliate the sex marathon with strangers, which were paid for sexual performance. Jane said that he was beaten by Comombs to take part to participate once. Kaisi said that when she tried to get out of such a program, Comombs defeated her and pulled her down from a hotel hallway.
Comombs were acquitted of sex trafficking and racketering allegations, but people were convicted of transportation for engaging in prostitution.
History behind law
The 1910 law basically banned the interstate or foreign transport of any woman or girl “for the purpose of prostitution or abuse, or for any other unethical purpose. “According to the legal information institute of Cornell University, the commission appointed as the Congress of 1907 to look into the issue of immigrant sex workers, with the approach that a girl will only enter or captive to prostitution.
The law was used to secure a punishment against Jack Johnson, which became the first black boxer to win the World Heavyweight title in 1910. Johnson was convicted by an all-white jury for traveling with his white girlfriend in 1913, who served as a sex worker in violation of the value.
President Donald Trump posthumously waived Johnson in 2018, stating that Johnson served a 10 -month prison, “for several approaches as racially induced injustice.”
How the law has changed since 1910
In the 1917 Supreme Court case, Justice ruled that according to Cornell’s legal information institute, “illegal adultery”, even when consent, was the amount of “immoral objective”.
An update of 1986 made the law gender-plated and “for any sexual activity” for any sexual activity “anyone can be charged for criminal offenses,” the Act effectively eliminated the role of the Act in an attempt to make morality by changing the “debutory” and “unethical purpose” for any sexual activity.
The Act received additional amendments to address children’s sexual abuse issues in 1978 and 1994.
How much time can Comombs get?
The prosecutors have asked the judge to prison more than 11 years of jail. Comombs lawyers have said that they should not be sentenced to more than a year, arguing that testimony was not part of the punishment during testing about alleged violent acts against women and others.