Ted Poe actually said...

"We have a mind-set in this country that we treat prostitutes, especially child prostitutes, as criminals."

"We got to treat these kids as victims of crime and not prostitutes."

"You take that victim and you put them in jail, even though they are not a criminal and we know they are not a criminal, that does not help them down the road."

"If the johns are afraid, the rapists are afraid of being publicly humiliated--and Judge Poe did this when he was a judge--was that public shame."