ASK THE DA: SEX TRAFFICKING
By Charles J. Hynes
Brooklyn District Attorney
I recently read that pimps are using the web to advertise prostitution rather than having the girls on the street. The article that I read explained that the average age where a girl is forced into prostitution is 12 to 14. Is this a concern in our community?
Sadly, sex trafficking can happen anywhere including right here in our own borough. This crime involves forcing women and children into the sex trade through psychological and physical coercion, including beatings, starvation, confinement and forced drug use.