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