Assistant AG defends DOJ prosecution of sex trafficking cases
This letter by Elisebeth C. Cook, Assistant Attorney General, has been published in the New York Times. She writes:
The department has convicted hundreds of sex traffickers for prostituting children and forcing women into prostitution. We have rescued hundreds upon hundreds of victims. And we strongly support Congressional reauthorization of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, which made these successes possible . . .
But we oppose provisions in the bill passed by the House of Representatives that would divert our focus away from the worst of the worst cases by making all prostitution a federal crime . . .