In an official statement on its origins , TFI partly describes the practice of Flirty Fishing as follows : In his judgment of a child custody court case in England in 1994 , after extensive research of COG publications and the testimony of numerous witnesses , Lord Justice Sir Alan Ward said the following about Flirty Fishing : A judge in Italy came to a different conclusion in 1991 , deciding that Flirty Fishing was not prostitution ( see Tribunale Penale di Roma ( Criminal Court of Rome ) , 15 November 1991 , re : Berg and others , and in the archives of the Criminal Court of Rome ( RG 3841\/84 ) ) .
In his judgment of a child custody court case in England in 1994 , after extensive research of COG publications and the testimony of numerous witnesses , Lord Justice Sir Alan Ward said this about Flirty Fishing : Flirty Fishing was officially abandoned in 1987 .