NYC soon to launch courts aimed at helping prostitutes out of sex work

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By Erik Badia AND Corky Siemaszko / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

This is where people forced into prostitution will get their day in court.

New York State is setting up a groundbreaking new criminal court system designed to help prostitutes escape the clutches of their pimps — and the street.

“Human trafficking is a crime that inflicts terrible harm on the most vulnerable members of society: victims of abuse, the poor, children, runaways, immigrants,” New York’s chief judge, Jonathan Lippman, said Wednesday. “It is in every sense a form of modern-day slavery.”

The new Human Trafficking Intervention Courts will prevent “victims of trafficking (from slipping) between the cracks of our justice system,” Lippman said.

Read more at http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-launch-courts-aimed-helping-prostitutes-sex-work-article-1.1467102

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