Posts Tagged ‘sex trafficking’

Chinatown Murders Might Be Linked to Prostitution

Written by NYPress on . Posted in Breaking News, News OTDT, News Our Town, Our Town, Our Town Downtown

Friday was an ugly crime, but that doesn’t mean that police aren’t making progress There’s been a bit of a new twist in Friday’s murder case regarding two women found dead in a burning ground-floor apartment in Chinatown. The women, Xia L. Li, 70, and Yong Hua Chen, 36, have been all over New York
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Does Backpage.com Help or Hinder Sex Trafficking? Protesters Outside the Village Voice Disagree

Written by NYPress on . Posted in Breaking News, News OTDT, Our Town Downtown

Norma Ramos addresses the crowd. “Village Voice shame on you, most of you have daughters too!” “Village Voice you have a choice, stop selling girls with no voice!” Last Wednesday these chants echoed throughout Cooper Square, where protestors led by the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women (CATW) and Prostitute Research & Education (PRE) rallied outside the Village Voice’s office. The
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