What were the penalties for American flight crews seducing female passengers?
Mar 29, 2017, 2:21 am
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What were the penalties for American flight crews seducing female passengers?
For at least some forty years after the end of World War 2, the US had a law on the books that made it a federal crime for American transport vessel employees to seduce female passengers.
What were the penalties for the violation of that law, and what was considered criminal "seduction" under that law?
Canada too had a law that had much the same kind of language making this a crime.
What were the penalties for the violation of that law, and what was considered criminal "seduction" under that law?
Canada too had a law that had much the same kind of language making this a crime.
Mar 29, 2017, 10:27 am
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Here's Canada's history with it: http://www.constancebackhouse.ca/fil...e/sed_pass.htm
Here's that of the US indicated in the OP:
18 USC 2198 Seduction of Female Passenger (criminal) and work from that.
That answers it.
Here's that of the US indicated in the OP:
18 USC 2198 Seduction of Female Passenger (criminal) and work from that.
PUBLIC LAWS-CH. 645-JUNE 25, 1948 § 2198. SEDUCTION OF FEMALE PASSENGER Whoever, being a master, officer, seaman, or other person employed on board of any American vessel, during the voyage, under promise of marriage, or by threats, or the exercise of authority, or solicitation, or the making of gifts or presents, seduces and has illicit connection with any female passenger, shall be fined not more than $1,000 or impris- oned not more than one year, or both. Subsequent intermarriage of the parties may be pleaded in bar of conviction and no conviction shall be had on the testimony of the female seduced without other evidence.
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Mar 29, 2017, 12:05 pm
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I'm also curious which countries still have these kind of laws on the books applicable to vessel crews.
There are a lot of old laws at state/local levels that made little to no sense in modern times -- things like a judge not wearing a hat while on horseback on Sunday being a punishable violation of law -- and got rescinded or ignored for a long time.
I would assume that federal laws applicable to flight crews have been way more in the spotlight than those kind of laws.
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An older American version of the law did this:
http://www.nytimes.com/1864/10/02/ne...ttachment.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1864/10/02/ne...ttachment.html