Local legislators said Monday that they will introduce a bill decriminalizing sex work in New York state. State Senators Jessica Ramos, Julia Salazar, and Brad Hoylman, along with Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, plan to introduce a bill repealing statutes that criminalize consensual sex work and creating a system to erase prostitution records. The legislation was written with the help of Decrim NY, a 20-organization coalition launched Monday to “decriminalize, decarcerate and destigmatize the sex trade in New York City and state.” “Trying to stop adult sex work shouldn’t be the business of the criminal justice system,” Gottfried​ said at the Decrim NY launch event. “Throughout history, it hasn’t worked, and it makes things worse. Decriminalizing adult sex work is harm reduction.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-york-legislators-call-for-statewide-decriminalization-of-prostitution

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NYS is on it's way to legal sex trafficking

Prosecuting pimps who sell kids for sex may seem like an open-and-shut trafficking case — but not in New York.

Weak state laws are keeping traffickers out of prison, and lawmakers are failing vulnerable kids by refusing to change them, prosecutors and cops told The Post.

New York is one of just three states — along with Alabama and Ohio — that requires attorneys to prove that an underage victim was forced, defrauded or coerced into prostitution to make a trafficking case, even though minors can’t legally consent to sex with an adult.

As a result, dirtbags can pimp out 12-year-old girls on Craigslist and get off with a slap on the wrist if the victims can’t or won’t testify.

https://nypost.com/2018/04/17/nys-lawmakers-are-failing-sex-trafficking-victims-in-a-big-way/