Charges of Sex for a Fee Against Non-Citizen on Asylum Status to be Dismissed

The defendant is from a South American country in the United States on asylum. On March 9, 2017 members of the Cambridge Police Special Investigations Unit and the Massachusetts State Police Human Trafficking Unit conducted a “john” operation utilizing an advertisement on backpage.com. This operation was staged at a Cambridge hotel. After a series of text messages were exchanged between the defendant and the undercover officers an agreement to meet at the hotel was completed. The defendant arrived at the designated room and paid a female officer disguised as a prostitute the negotiated sum of money. He was immediately arrested and charged with sex for a fee, G.L. c. 272 Section 53A. Attorney Neyman was hired. We were able to get the case continued without a finding for thirty days with the option of getting the case sealed immediately. If there is any effort to deport our client the judge made clear the defendant will be permitted to withdraw his admission.

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