Survivors of Trafficking Attaining Relief Together

What the survivors of human trafficking deserve – New York Daily News
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What the survivors of human trafficking deserve – New York Daily News

In our adversarial legal system, prosecutors and public defenders don’t often see eye to eye. But as the Manhattan district attorney and veteran attorneys for the Legal Aid Society, we agree on this: Survivors of human trafficking should not be criminalized. A 2021 state law gives judges wide discretion to free trafficking survivors from the…

NYC human trafficking victims forced into prostitution, fraud desperately seek a way out of the shadows
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NYC human trafficking victims forced into prostitution, fraud desperately seek a way out of the shadows

What they have in common are tragically similar circumstances that primed them for victimization: They were vulnerable, desperate, and fell under the control and manipulation of human traffickers who …