12/20/2013 – Bristol, South West England — A Bristol Crown Court has found a man guilty of raping a street prostitute and sentenced him to over three years in jail.
According to published reports, last Sept. 35-year-old Roman National, Daniel-Nicolae Ilie approached a woman around 2 a.m. on the streets of Bristol and offered her £20($32) for a specific sex act (undisclosed).
The woman admits she agreed to the exchange, but during intercourse Ilie offered more money if the 39-year-old prostitute would engage in additional specific sex acts (undisclosed) – to which the woman refused.
Ilie then demanded more sex and grabbed the woman, ignored her protests and raped her. Ilie then quickly left the area
The prostitute then called police and reported the rape.
Ilie was later identified from CCTV footage from a nearby business.
In a strange twist of events, Ilie, through an interpreter, actually admitted to raping the woman…
“I paid her, … I am not saying that because she is a prostitute she is the lowest of the low but I paid for her. … Some people work all day for £20, she was working 10 minutes. … She is a prostitute so she should do her business properly.”
Ilie admitted to investigators that he regularly uses prostitutes in other European cities.
Judge Mark Horton pointed out that Ilie admitted to his guilt at the earliest possible point after being contacted by police and again after being criminally charged – stating that is was “extremely rare” for a defendant to admit their guilt in such a case and to do it so swiftly.
Regardless of Ilie’s admission, and the fact that the victim was initially agreeable to sex with Ilie, Judge Horton sentenced Ilie to three years and four months in jail and to remain on the country’s Sex Offenders’ Registration indefinitely. Additionally, for five years after his release from jail, Ilie is forbidden from red light area in Bristol and from approaching women on the street.
In his ruling Judge Horton commented in open court,
I sentence you for rape upon a sexual worker in exactly the same circumstances as the rape of any other woman with whom you had been having consensual sex, … The court has no distinction. … A sex worker, like any other woman in this country, is entitled to her consent.
Locally, in 2006 Oklahoma City man Carl Wade Smallwood was sentenced to life without parole for the kidnapping and rape of longtime street prostitute Megan M. (aka, ‘Candy) at the Drover’s Inn near SE 36 and S. I-35.