A Queens woman had been working as a sex worker for about a year when a quick-thinking cop opened the door to freedom and saved her life.
Mia had been a prostitute in Queens for about a year when a quick-thinking cop opened the door to freedom.When the NYPD’s Finest showed up, she lied, just like her pimps told her to.“A detective saved my life,” she recalled to The Post.“He said to me, ‘Take a business card,” she said. “And I said ‘I can’t take that, I can’t.’”“He said he had a daughter my age and that there was a whole world out there,” she recalled. “He said you look like a really, really good young woman.
When the NYPD officer showed up where the 17-year-old was stationed, he wrote the number of a hotline for her to call on the inside of her T-shirt.The traffickers constantly promised to harm her family back home if she didn’t comply. They were forbidden to talk about what they were doing or where they went, then delivered to men who had called a number and ordered them “for pleasure,” she said.“Sometimes you have no choice because you have family back home and they always use your family to intimidate you,” she said. “I’m not the only one. This is how this industry works.”She was forced to have two abortions while she was working as a prostitute.“Someone forced you to do this? No.
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