Paying for sexual services between willing adults has been illegal in Canada for nearly a decade, but nobody cares, the penalty is too small and first offenders usually get "Johns school" as an option to avoid charges
How many clients had been condemned and had faced jail for this after a decade? assuming only the basic "soliciting for sex" and no additional stuff like traffic, pimping, underage or violence?
probably very few if any
for me it is clear they planted the 16 year old to add more serious charges and to destroy any kind of leniency he might find at court or with the general public, as not everybody sees organizing gangbangs as a crime, and even less as a serious crime