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Earlier this week, Queens resident David Brown was found guilty of sex trafficking, kidnapping and other charges in Queens Supreme Court. Apparently, Brown paid his ex-girlfriend $2,000 to "purchase" a woman and posted nude photographs of the victimized 19-year-old on Craigslist—and he's the first convicted under former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's strict sex-trafficking law. Instead of facing a maximum of seven years, Brown will face 25 years in prison when sentenced in January. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown (no relation!) tells the Daily News that his "office continues to use every tool allowed under the law to prosecute dangerous individuals like this defendant and to seek justice for victims."

After yesterday's horrifying reports that a Brooklyn couple allegedly kept a young Mexican immigrant hostage and forced her into prostitution (not to mention refusing care for her baby, who eventually died), Mayor Bloomberg said victims of sex trafficking should call 311 or 911, "Whatever your documentation status is, no matter what your situation is, you don't have to worry about it. We all have an obligation to help each other, and if somebody really is being trafficked, you've got to make that phone call... You're not putting yourself at risk. You are helping other people."

Investigators uncovered the remains of an infant encased in cement and a Rubbermaid container when they broke up a suspected sex trafficking ring in Sunset Park. Federal prosecutors allege that Domingo Salazar, 33, smuggled a young Mexican woman into the country, forced her to turn tricks, and then refused to provide medical care for their three-month-old baby — whose remains were recovered in their 40th Street apartment on Tuesday.

      

An intense traveling art exhibit that aims to enlighten people about the horrors of sex trafficking has arrived in New York. Called "Journey," the installation consists of seven shipping containers with work by international artists intended to evoke the experience of being a sex trafficking victim. It opened yesterday on Washington Place, and will remain open through Sunday. This video shows the interior of one of the containers, in which Coco de Mer founder Sam Roddick recreates a room in a brothel: