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Mayor Bill de Blasio outlined NYPD reforms he said would support survivors of sex trafficking and gender-based violence. (NYC Mayor s Office)
NEW YORK CITY Sex workers shouldn t be treated as criminals by the NYPD and a broken legal system, Mayor Bill de Blasio said.
De Blasio on Tuesday unveiled a spate of police reforms focused on sex workers and victims of gender-based violence.
He urged state lawmakers to decriminalize sex work an action he said would dovetail with local efforts to provide community-based services for sex workers.
Subscribe That means understanding that sex workers are often folks who are subjugated or victims of trafficking, who are people who think they have no other choice, he said. What we need to help them we need to end the criminalization of sex workers and put all of the focus on enforcement against those who subjugate them.
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Jung Ja and Eric Ornstein brought two women to the U.S. with the promise of a lucrative job at a bar and restaurant, then told their victims on arrival the arrangement had changed they’d be having sex with strangers instead, prosecutors said.
According to investigative records from St. John’s, the university could not substantiate one of the women’s claims. But in the case involving the other - college officials found 2 violations of the school’s policy on “Non-Consensual Sexual Penetration” and issued a one-year suspension for the accused student. In that case text messages appear to show the male student engaged in sex despite the fact that his partner was so impaired by drugs he couldn’t understand her speech. In one text he writes “u were moaning and crying I couldn’t understand what you were saying.” In another text he writes, “I thought U were going to die when I walked in that room,” apparently referring to how intoxicated she appeared before he began to have sex with her.