100 years ago: Jewish pimp on trial

On the website of the Jewish magazine Forward, we find this news item from 1913:

Verdict Awaited in Pimping Trial

After days of deliberation, the jury in the trial of Avrom Belkin was still unable to come to a decision. On trial for forcing a young woman into prostitution, Minsk-born Belkin claimed he was innocent. Annie Jacobs, the girl in question, testified against him and described how Belkin approached her at a picnic in Downtown Manhattan’s Liberty Park and presented himself as a ladies waist maker and a loyal union man. He earned her trust, and, after a few weeks of dating he asked her to marry him. He took her to what he said was his aunt’s house in Brooklyn’s Brownsville, where he beat and raped her. He then installed her in a nearby brothel, where what transpired cannot be written about in a family newspaper. For his part, Belkin claims that he is the victim, that the girl he was dating turned out to be a prostitute. The trial, incidentally, is Belkin’s second; the first ended in a hung jury.


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