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Monday, January 3, 2011

A Bronx Elementary School, Surrounded by ProstitutesBy YARDENA SCHWARTZWhen Nicole Murray’s 10-year-old daughter, Diamond, first started going to West Farms elementary school three years ago, she asked her mother why one woman they passed was barely dressed.At all hours of the day, prostitutes roam the streets around the school, waiting for cars entering and leaving the Cross Bronx Expressway. They bend over car windows and climb inside, in plain view of students walking to and from the school.Listening to her daughter, who is now in the fourth grade, ask about prostitutes was hard, Ms. Murray, 37, said. “I felt a big weight in my chest,” she said.The prostitutes also have sex inside a tent on top of a boulder directly below the school’s playground. Students, from prekindergartners to fifth graders, can see mattresses, cushions and sheets strewn about the rock. Custodians often have to sweep condoms and hypodermic needles from the school grounds before students arrive in the m http://amplify.com/u/kcag

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