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Authorities in Texas, Nevada, Illinois, California, Florida, Georgia, New Jersey and New York are now fighting to curtail the sex trade, a leaked law enforcement memo on the Venezuelan migrant ...
A Queens neighborhood in New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez’s congressional district was likened by locals to a “third world” country with people selling goods on the sidewalks and ...
Derek Harris, a sex trafficker in Buffalo. Tried and found guilty in November 2017, Derek was the first person to be tried in Erie County under New York's 2007 Anti-Trafficking law. [17] Occurring in 2018, a proclaimed "self-help guru" (Keith Raniere), was discovered in New York to be running an illegal sex trafficking ring. Raniere was the ...
Eliot Spitzer resigned as governor of New York in 2008 amid threats of impeachment after news reports alleged he was a client of an international prostitution ring. [26] In 2009, Rhode Island signed a bill into law making prostitution a misdemeanor.
In 2014 New York City created a series of special courts for sex workers arrested on prostitution-related charges. The new courts, known as Human Trafficking Intervention Courts (HTIC), [6] treated all sex workers as human trafficking victims, and through a variety of bullying tactics forced defendants to forgo their constitutional right of a trial by jury and agree to a plea bargain of a sex ...
An alleged multistate human trafficking ring forcing immigrant women into prostitution. The mysterious killing of a former police officer in South Florida. Attacks against police officers in New York.
De Wallen red-light district in Amsterdam. Red-light districts are areas associated with the sex industry and sex-oriented businesses (e.g. sex shops and strip clubs).In some of these places prostitution occurs, whether legally or illegally.
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