Lawrence Taylor was unapologetic after being sentenced to six years of probation on Tuesday and being registered as a sex offender after pleading guilty in January to sexual misconduct.
“I’m not the cause of prostitution. And sometimes I make mistakes and I may go out there,” Taylor said on Fox News via ESPNNewYork.com. “And I didn’t go pick her up on no playground. She wasn’t hiding behind the school bus or getting off a school bus. This is a working girl that came to my room.”
That working girl was 16 years old. But Taylor feels that the “world of prostitution” was at fault here.
“You never know what you’re gonna get. Is it gonna be a pretty girl, an ugly girl or whatever it’s gonna be,” Taylor said. “I don’t card them. I don’t ask for a birth certificate.”
Taylor doesn’t consider soliciting prostitutes a serious crime. After all, it’s the world’s oldest profession.
“I guess you call it a crime,” he said. “It’s one of those crimes you don’t think about. You never think you’re gonna get busted because everyone does it until you get busted, and then it’s more embarrassing than anything else.”
