OSU Adviser Charged With Creating Online Hooker Raffle

Well, “hooker raffle” isn’t a phrase you read every day, but that’s just what Ohio State University adviser Christopher S. Johnson organized online recently. I’ll let the police explain:

Christopher S. Johnson, an adviser at the Ohio State University College of Nursing, set up an Internet chat board where customers posted reviews of prostitutes they'd hired through the erotic services section of the Columbus craigslist Web site.

They extolled the virtues of the best ones and alerted one another about those who were rip-off artists or whose services were less than advertised.

Johnson, 33, then set up a raffle for the hundreds of men who had joined his site. They paid $10 for a chance to have sex with a top-rated professional.

The prize was Vanise M. Dunn, 31, who has worked at Franklin County Children Services since 2000, Ackley said. After Dunn was paid her regular fee, Johnson kept the rest of the raffle money.
Dunn was later arrested, on Nov. 12, for soliciting a vice detective at her Hilliard condominium.

Wait, the prostitute worked at CHILD SERVICES? Don’t they do background checks when hiring places like that? Or maybe she just kept it on the DL.

So far this doesn’t seem to be a student-related activity, but I supposed it’s definitely possible that a few bored college students with $10 to spare entered into this little contest. And I mean, who wouldn’t? You can win sex with a stranger, and possibly the chance to be arrested; it’s just like going to a frat party, but it costs ten dollars!

And it’s not looking great for Johnson and his accomplice, I shit you not, “Rusty Blades”:

In court yesterday, defense attorneys argued that their bails should be low because both were married with children. Judge H. William Pollitt Jr. set bail at $50,000 for Blades, of 1678 Rathmell Rd. in Hamilton Township and $25,000 for Johnson, of 5665 Baytree Dr. on the Far West Side.

I would make a countermotion that both men should have their bails increased because both are married with children. Anyone else agree with me here?