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MANHATTAN---Two issues, each offering scores of horrific accounts of women who are victims of violence, sexual exploitation, greed and control, are the focus of a New York State Bar Association program featuring three prominent members of the state Assembly as speakers.
On Thursday, June 8, from 12:30 to 2 p.m., the state bar Committee on Women in the Law is offering a program that focuses on the topic of criminalizing human trafficking, and the challenges faced in prosecuting cases of rape and other violent sexual crimes against women. The prpgram will be held at the Supreme Court/Civil Branch, 60 Centre Street, Room 130, in Manhattan.
New York State Assembly members Joseph Lentol (D-Brooklyn), Jeffrey Dinowitz (D-Bronx), and Amy Paulin (D-Scarsdale) are featured panelists.
More than 50,000 women and children are trafficked into the United States each year and forced by fraud or coercion primarily into pornography, prostitution, sex tourism, and other commercial sexual services. Worldwide, that number jumps to 700,000 who are trafficked within or across international borders.
There are more than 12,000 forcible rapes and related sexual offenses reported each year in New York. Under current law, dangerous sexual predators cannot be prosecuted for sex crimes more than five years old, even if there is properly preserved DNA evidence definitively linking them to those crimes.
The program is free of charge; however, registration prior to the event is required. To register, please contact Susan Fitzpatrick at 518/487-5561 or at sfitzpatrick@nysba.org and include name, address, phone and email address. Lawyers are eligible to receive 1.5 MCLE credits.
Program co-sponsors include the New York County Lawyers Association Women's Rights Committee, and the New York Women's Bar Association. 5-30-06
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