STATEMENT – Manhattan DA Stands Up for Victims of Prostitution; to Focus Efforts on Prosecuting Sex Buyers, Traffickers
NCOSE commends the Manhattan D.A. Cyrus Vance Jr. for refusing to criminalize victims of prostitution by announcing that it wouldn’t prosecute individuals in prostitution and unlicensed illicit massage, and instead, would focus efforts on prosecuting the buyers of prostituted persons, as well as their traffickers/pimps.