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NJ sex worker says: Decriminalize prostitution and treat us like humans

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By Dino Flammia June 18, 2017 9:00 PM

To escape a domestic violence situation more than 20 years ago, Newark resident Janet Duran needed to find work that would pay well enough to support herself and her child, and not interfere with attaining a college degree.

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“The easiest way out,” she says, was entering the world of sex work. Since then, on and off, she’s “dabbled in a bit of everything” sex trade-related, except webcam services, to make ends meet. And it’s still helping to pay the bills.

“I just go out. If someone’s interested, they’ll come speak to me,” she said. “I just kind of bounce around from city to city.”

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New York man indicted for allegedly operating a brothel in Paramus

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New York man indicted for allegedly operating a brothel in Paramus

DECEMBER 19, 2014, 5:46 PM    LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2014, 6:32 PM
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A New York man was indicted this week for allegedly operating a brothel in a residential neighborhood in Paramus.

A grand jury in Hackensack charged Mei Zhi Zheng, 37, of Nanuet, N.Y., with promoting prostitution and transporting or possessing more than $2,000 believed to be derived from criminal activity.

The indictment said he promoted the prostitution of Feng Q. Liu by owning, controlling, managing, supervising or otherwise keeping a house of prostitution at 12 North Farview Ave.

Increased evening traffic to the home by men ranging in age from 20 to 50 prompted neighbors to alert police to the unusual activity. Police began surveillance at the small, pale blue house in August. Several weeks later, local and county detectives visited the brothel posing as johns and were allegedly offered sexual acts at the rate of $160 an hour.

https://www.northjersey.com/news/new-york-man-indicted-for-allegedly-operating-a-brothel-in-paramus-1.1172854