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Sex worker Madeleine Lewin stands trial over death of client in Cairns hotel room

Worldwide BDSM News From The Media Posted on Tue, October 11, 2022 23:55:14

Source: ABC.net.au.

AUSTRALIA – A sex worker accused of causing the death of a client had little experience in “dominatrix-type services”, a court has been told.

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Madeleine Joan Lewin, 34, is on trial for manslaughter in relation to the death of Anthony Brady, whose body was found in a room on the sixth floor of a Cairns hotel.

The Supreme Court in Cairns heard Mr Brady, 52, had arranged to meet Ms Lewin at the Sunshine Tower Hotel on the evening of August 12, 2020.

In his opening address to the jury, Crown prosecutor Nathan Crane said Mr Brady was in the hotel room “under a presumed consensual arrangement”.

But, he alleged, “an inherently dangerous” sex act, which Ms Lewin had oversight of, went wrong.

Mr Crane said Mr Brady was found with his legs and wrists bound, a hood over his head and a gag in his mouth.

The likely cause of his death was “mechanical asphyxiation”, the court heard.

Ms Lewin, who is representing herself during the proceedings, has pleaded not guilty.

Former clients to give evidence

Mr Crane said the “combination of the items [found in the hotel room] was inherently deadly” and that Ms Lewin had a duty to be “hypervigilant about his health and safety”.

However, he said it was not apparent Ms Lewin had “any significant degree of experience” in dominatrix-type services.

She had only bought the gag found with Mr Brady hours before his first message to her the previous day, the court heard.

The jury was told they would hear evidence during the trial from former clients of Ms Lewin and from the director of a website where she listed her services under an alias.

Mr Brady was in Cairns for work and was reported missing after he failed to check out of his room at a different hotel and did not attend some work-related tasks the morning after his death.

The court heard he had already checked in for his flight home to Brisbane shortly before he walked to meet Ms Lewin.

His wife is also listed among the witnesses in the trial.

The trial before Justice James Henry continues.



‘We just want our rights’: Sex industry activist to debut play ‘Dominatrix on Trial’ in Windsor

Worldwide BDSM News From The Media Posted on Mon, May 09, 2022 02:10:10

Source: Windsor.ctvnews.ca.

CANADA – Controversial sex industry activist Terri-Jean Bedford is in Windsor this week ahead of the theatrical adaptation of her memoir “Dominatrix on Trial.”

See video and more larger photo’s on: Windsor.ctvnews.ca.

Bedford was raised in Windsor and took her fight for sex workers rights to the Supreme Court of Canada.

“I am the Bedford in Bedford versus Canada,” said Bedford.

Bedford was one of three sex workers who successfully challenged Canada’s prostitution law on the grounds that it violated their Charter right to security of the person.

“I don’t promote, condone or condemn the sex trade,” she said. “But I do promote safety.”

The musical “Dominatrix on Trial” will run this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at the Kordazone Theatre. Bedford will be on hand to sign copies of her book on Thursday.

“We’re going to revisit those laws. Like I said, Trudeau promised to repeal and I’m gonna hold his feet to the fire on that one, Bedford said.

Bedford told CTV News she hasn’t ruled out a run for political office, adding she’s still advocating for sex workers’ rights.

“The only way to separate a consenting adult from a non-consenting adult is to license, decriminalize and register,” Bedford said. “That’ll put human trafficking out of business because men don’t want to be criminalized.”

“They don’t want their livelihoods, and their lifestyles and their autonomy taken away. They want to go somewhere and not all of them are married, some have social disabilities they can’t engage and this will help them to build the confidence make them more productive.”

Bedford said she hopes audiences will see the sex industry from a different perspective after watching the performance.

“I hope they understand that sex workers are respectable people and that we work hard,” she said. “We are conscientious about our community and our neighbors. I think the media has done a lot to harm, degrade and stigmatize sex trade workers. But you’ll find that we’re the most loving giving caring people in the world we just want our rights.”



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