On Thursday, authorities in New York arrested Rex Heuermann and charged him with first-degree murder in connection with the deaths of three women.
and an item linked to one of the women's remains.
"It's pretty much the norm. People from the community really have to watch their back when it comes to, not only people who they serve in their profession, but also people who they come into contact with who they may refuse services to, and then also police," said Jasmine Tasaki, executive director of We Care Tennessee, an organization working to protect sex workers and transgender people from violence in Memphis.
"Sex workers are targets for violence, specifically because the people who are targeting them, like this killer in Long Island, know that they are marginalized," she said."They know that they are less able to establish safety, that they are put at risk by a society that criminalizes their profession and by extension their existence."
The gruesome killings of Megan Waterman, 22, Melissa Barthelemy, 24, and Amber Lynn Costello, 27, which Heuermann is charged with, are just some of many high profile examples of serial killers targeting sex workers, said Branstetter, who works on the ACLU's Women's Rights Project and LGBTQ & HIV Project.Some of the most high-profile serial killers in the U.S. have said they targeted sex workers as part of their crimes.
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