Judge drops sex case as 'outrageous'

[Foxy Brown]

A Lehigh County judge has dismissed the case against a woman who was charged with promoting prostitution at a North Whitehall Township spa, ruling that state police engaged in ''outrageous'' conduct when they paid an informant to have sex four times with employees.

State police investigating the Shiatsu Spa on Route 309 paid the informant $180 for his ''time'' and gave him money to pay for sexual acts in the spa in June and July 2006.

''We conclude that the decision to send the citizen into Shiatsu Spa on four occasions for a smorgasbord of sexual activity violates the principles of fundamental fairness,'' Judge Robert L. Steinberg said in a Jan. 24 written opinion. ''Neither the prostitution activity inside the Shiatsu Spa nor the police decision-making is to be condoned.''