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Banned company director promotes new business venture

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NZ Escort Directory Launched

Source: Story by Frances Morton. June 5, nzherald.co.nz

One week after pleading guilty to directing a company while banned, porn magnate Steve Crow has announced a new business venture. [Crow is listed as a “disqualified director” on the Companies Office website www.companies.govt.nz – banned for four years under s. 385 of the Companies Act 1993 from promoting, directing or managing any company].

Crow launched an online escort directory, [pornographic website link deleted] on Friday.

[The domain name of the website registered on 21 March 2011, is owned by Truth Publications Ltd, a company struck off the Registrar of Companies on 25 February 2011. The Registrant contact for the website is listed as former Truth Publications CEO Demott Malley Tel. dermott@truth.co.nz. See www.dnc.org.nz.]

He [Crow] plans to promote it [the website owned by a defunct company – Truth Publication Ltd] with a second Boobs on Bikes down Queen St on September 24 – the day the All Blacks take on France in the Rugby World Cup at Eden Park.

Crow said escorts listed on the website would be bodypainted with rugby jerseys in New Zealand and French sporting colours.

The next Boobs on Bikes is scheduled for August 4.

Crow said he may not seek a permit from Auckland Council for the second parade.

He maintained his involvement as a “marketing consultant” in the new venture did not contravene his director ban. “I’m not running it. David Crow my brother is. He’s the CEO.”

Full Story: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/connect/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501833&objectid=10730335

Brothel brothers failed to ensure Palace Hotel safe – report

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The heritage hotel at the centre of a demolition stand-off was moving by up to 5 millimetres an hour towards the street when the decision was made to knock it down, the Auckland Council said today. The 124-year-old Palace Hotel building in central Auckland was reduced to rubble following a council order in November last year to demolish it.

An Auckland Council commissioned report has found the Palace Hotel’s owners, John and Michael Chow, failed to ensure the building was being safely renovated. The Council is considering prosecuting the Chows following the report’s findings. Meanwhile a bill for more than $200,000 – the council’s costs arising from the building’s collapse – has been sent to the Chow Group.

Report by Susie Nordqvist http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10711133

Study shows sex addicts turned off by intimacy

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SEX addicts are actually more likely to avoid sex in a relationship, new research from Massey University has found. The findings also show people with appetites for online sex, prostitution, sex that puts you at risk of harm, degrading sex, or public indecency tend to have commitment issues. [Read more…]

Brothel madam’s sentence “appallingly light” says mother of victim of criminal exploitation

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A Christchurch mother is disgusted a brothel madam who illegally employed her 16-year-old daughter as a stripper in a graphic sex act has received an “appallingly light” sentence.

Anna Anastazja Horlor, 59, who operated four Christchurch brothels employing 80 workers, was sentenced yesterday in the Christchurch District Court to six months home detention and 200 hours community work on two charges of receiving income from underage sex workers.

See full story by MARTIN VAN BEYNEN – The Press http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/4447807/Brothel-madams-sentence-appalling [Read more…]

Parents [in Manukau City – Auckland] ‘put teens into sex work’

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Just as the Society (SPCS) predicted when it presented its written and oral submissions to the Justice and Electoral Seclect Committee considering the Prostitution Reform Bill back in 2001-2003; the decriminalisation of prostitution has indeed led to a growth in under- age girls working as prostitutes on city streets, in some cases even supported by their parents acting as pimps. With the passing of the Prostitution Reform Act (PRA), which the Society so vigorously and publicly opposed at the time, prostitution (including pimping, living off the earnings of prostitution and street soliciting for sex) in effect became legal.

 As the New Zealand Herald reported today, girls as young as 13 are regularly working as prostitutes, supported in some cases by their parent(s), to pay for drug habits in Manukau City. Soliciting by under-age girls has also been documented in other New Zealand cities.

To address this problem, exacerbated by the passing of the PRA, the Manukau City (Regulation of Prostitution in Specified Places) Bill is being considered by politicians and Councillors.

See Parents ‘put teens into sex work’. By Andrew Koubaridis.

“Teenagers in South Auckland are being sent to work as prostitutes by their parents to pay for drugs, says an Auckland Council member…”

 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10691979