CUNY Law kicks off year with slate of new events
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CUNY Law will host a Public Interest Symposium on Sept. 7, bringing together students and legal and social justice advocates for an afternoon of panels and education.
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Advocates, DAs urge Albany to repeal loitering law and enable record-clearing for trafficking victims before end of session
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“Both are necessary to protect marginalized populations and reduce harm. I strongly support these two bills”
Read MoreAdvocates urge State Senate to pass criminal record relief for trafficking victims
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Advocates and attorneys now recognize that traffickers force their immigrant victims to perform various crimes in addition to sex work, such theft and drug offenses.
Read MoreSex workers condemn massage parlor raids amid proposed crackdown in Flushing
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“NYPD out of massage parlors!” they chanted, in English and Mandarin.
Read MoreQueens Sex Trafficker Faces Sentencing
/By David Brand
Raul Granados-Rendon, a leader of the Granados family sex trafficking ring based in Mexico, pleaded guilty to sex trafficking conspiracy and faces sentencing today in Brooklyn federal court.
U.S. District Judge Kiyo A. Matsumoto presides over sentencing in Courtroom 6C South.
Granados-Rendon was indicted in 2011 for operating a family-run sex trafficking organization based in Tenancingo, Mexico.
Court documents revealed that between October 1998 and June 2011, Granados-Rendon, and other members of his sex trafficking organization smuggled dozens of young women into the United States from Mexico and forced them into sex work in Queens. From there, the women were transported to other parts of the northeast.
Prosecutors said that victims were beaten or sexually assaulted by members of the organization if they refused to perform sex work. Victims said that Granados-Rendon and other traffickers threatened to harm their families in Mexico if they resisted sex work.
In 2015, USA Today reported that members of the sex trafficking ring handed out pamphlets in Spanish called “Chica cards” to passersby along Roosevelt Avenue, one of Queens’ busiest thoroughfares. The pamphlets advertised a phone number to call for cheap sex.
The Eastern District of New York courthouse // Eagle file photo
