Any New York criminal defense attorney can tell you that a charge or offense related to escort services evolves from the crime of Prostitution. Prostitution, New York Penal Law What this means to the man or woman who allegedly sells his or her body for sexual relations, if convicted your exposure in jail is as much as 90 days.
Whether you are involved in a high-end escort service agency that operates through websites and records transactions on client credit card as interior decorating or some other non-existent business, you walk the literal and proverbial streets, or you are an independent service provider offering GFE services, the criminal charge is the same.
The size or amount of the fee or the extent of the sexual conduct is irrelevant as long as it meets the legal standard. In many if not most arrests in NYC or elsewhere in the Hudson Valley, the allegation of sexual conduct will be clear. However, is the law violated if you put on an erotic show for a paying customer?
Maybe that customer paid you to let him or her touch your breasts either on top of or under your shirt. In the alternative, you were paid for a lap dance, but ultimately you allowed your client to expose himself and rub his penis or her vagina against you. Are you, an accused legally a prostitute as define by the New York criminal law? Therefore, while the first two hypothetical scenarios appear not to involve sexual conduct, the last one β allowing a person to rub his or her genitalia on you for gratification β appears to fall into the category.
In fact, a lap dance for a fee, while usually not falling within the realm of prostitution, may be prosecuted as a crime of Prostitution if there is excessive contact of the genitals even if clothed. Due to the countless fact specific details of a case, you owe it to yourself to retain an experienced New York criminal defense attorney to represent you if you find yourself charged with Prostitution.
