The assistant principal of San Francisco’s Galileo High School and a Milpitas woman have been arrested on pimping and prostitution charges by San Jose Police.
Gerald Courtney, 57, the assistant principal, and Hsiu Hwa Chou, 41, were arrested for allegedly running brothels at 1550 Technology Drive and 80 Descanso Drive in San Jose. The arrests came after search warrants were served at the homes of the suspects in Milpitas and San Francisco.
“The San Jose vice unit served several search warrants, one in Milpitas and one in San Francisco, regarding an ongoing investigation of the past four months,” said San Jose Police Sgt. Michael Sullivan, spokesman for the department.Neither Courtney nor Chou could be reached for comment today.
Gentle Blythe, spokeswoman for the San Francisco Unified School District, said Courtney has been placed on administrative leave, “pending further investigation and resolution of the charges.” He had worked at the district since 1988.
“We’re very sad to hear about his arrest,” Blythe said.
No minors, students or other school officials from San Francisco Unified were involved in the prostitution ring, police said.
Sullivan said Courtney had used his name to obtain apartment leases “where prostitution was being run.” He also created Internet postings for the prostitutes, Sullivan said.
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For most of the country this would be unacceptable behavior, but then again we are talking about San Francisco…
Hoing should be legal.
Gentle Blythe??? Seriously? That’s someones name?
The politicians of San Francisco are turning it from a beautiful city to a Las Vegas cesspool. The democratic party just voted to ignore all the prostitution, pimping and trafficking laws. Johns and pimps and traffickers are welcome! Let the gang wars begin! The Tenderloin is a death trap, School principals are pimps. Pimps are writing the ballot measures.
I believe in progressive politics. But this is not being progressive, this is just being stupid.
You guys are overreacting. Dont forget that this happened in San Jose, not SF. It is also unfair to judge a whole city simply based on one individual’s actions.
Prostitution should be legal, period, it’s private. No one was hurt. The only thing that should be illegal is people forcing people to do it to pay a debt. It will always exist. Men will always need to pay for sex if they are not considered cool enough to give casual sex to or marry, and some women will always be willing to make in an hour what they would need to work 20 to earn. Drugs are a problem, but if they legalized them no one would be so desperate for money as they’d be cheap. I’m a libertarian, legalize drugs and there’d be less prostitution, but there will always be some. It’s better to do one guy and study 20 hours if you’re a college girl than to work 20 hours and get a grade that won’t enable you to get a good job or go to graduate school.