A man who tried to hire a prostitute to take his 14-year-old son´s virginity as a present was spared jail by a court on Friday.

The Polish national took the boy out in his car and allowed him to pick out the prostitute, who was standing at the side of the road in the red-light district of Nottingham.

But the 42-year-old father was arrested because the teenager had chosen an undercover police officer, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was handed a 10-month prison sentence, suspended for a year, after he admitted a charge of trying to solicit a woman to have sex with a child, the Press Association reported.

The court heard that the father, who came to Britain eight years ago, was arrested last July during an undercover operation by the city´s vice squad.

Prosecutor Adrian Harris said the man and his son had approached the undercover officer whose code name was Sarah and beckoned her over .

He asked "Sarah" how much it would cost for her to have sex with his son and they agreed on a 20 pound fee. However, when the car pulled over, the man was arrested by plainclothes police officers.

"The boy said that they had driven past the girl and his dad pointed to her and said ´will she do?´" Harris said.

"He said ´yes´ and they had turned round. He said his dad did this because he was still a virgin and he was taking care of that for him."

Judge Jonathan Teare said he would spare the father jail because of his excellent character and that he believed he did not mean any harm to his son.

"You have a duty of care to your son and that is to look after his moral welfare, not as you might think to break him in to the ways of sex through a prostitute," he said.

The court was told the boy would continue to live with his father.

Get your own here

 Cool Dad or Bad Dad!!

Quite disturbing....

 Quite   Good job I am not the boys mother otherwise the boys father would be regretting his actions

A thread that´s run to more than a page and that has actually instigated some discussion.  At last - after over 5 weeks!!!  Well done Trudy

 And I even didn´t do it on purpose......

 And more than three people involved

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090518/twl-mum-s-shock-at-twins-with-different-3fd0ae9.html

Has your love affair ever caught you out?  Well it did for this women, she managed to conceive twins by two different fathers.......... now try explaing that one away

 Then there is another issue. What about the other father?  Nobody mentioned the child´s right to his biological father or that father´s right to his child.

 Perhaps she does not know who the "other" father is.............. those poor twins don´t know exactly who their father is. 

The little mouse my cat brought in this morning, cowering in the corner........ so 7:00am I was trying to catch the mouse before the cat killed it.  Mission accomplished and mouse is free

 I had cat #1 for years. Never in the time I had him was any mouse ever heard of or seen.  I  then brought in another young cat.  I had no idea there were any mice around until cat #2 came in.  He was amazing.  It was like he could charm mice out of the walls.  His ears would perk up and he would stand in the middle of the room like in a trance. One time he got one that screamed. It was really quite upsetting. We love out cats, but it is upsetting when they do their "thing".

It´s difficult to watch cats and mice, but that´s nature. Too many mice can be a real problem.  Then you could join this rat and mouse rescue organization.