Brothel client fined for unsafe sex
A NEW Zealand man charged with putting a prostitute's life at risk
by removing a condom during sex was fined in a groundbreaking case
welcomed yesterday by civil rights groups and sex workers.
Daniel Morgan, 48, was fined NZ$400 (S$460) and ordered to pay
costs in the Christchurch District Court on Thursday after pleading
guilty to the charge, the first of its kind under a new unsafe sex
law which is part of the 2003 Prostitution Reform Act. The maximum
fine is NZ$2,000.
'As a test case, it was a minimum fine but it shows that the Act is
working,' Ms Calum Bennachie of the New Zealand Prostitutes
Collective said. -- REUTERS