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Sex trade: 18,000 women and children trafficked into UK


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Up to 18,000 females, including girls as young as 14, are working in brothels across Britain after being smuggled into the country, a new police survey reveals. Nearly five times more women than previously thought are working in massage parlours and suburban homes.

Operation Pentameter 2, a six-month campaign by police forces across the country, has exposed the horrifying extent of the sex trade industry in the UK. Because of the booming demand for prostitutes in the UK, prostitution and people trafficking is now the third most lucrative black-market trade after gun running and drug dealing. Organised crime gangs increasingly use the internet to communicate and maximise their earnings.

Most of the victims are young and foreign, coming from countries including Brazil, China, Lithuania and Thailand. Often, women are lured away from their homes with promises of work in bars or nightclubs, before being sold for up to £5,000 to pimps and brothel-keepers. The women are then forced to work for little or no income under threat of violence against their families.

As a result of Operation Pentameter 2, 528 suspected traffickers were arrested and 822 brothels closes. 154 women and 13 girls were released.
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11 responses // Sex trade: 18,000 women and children trafficked into UK

  • This is shocking. I really had no idea ...
    dadapapa
  • http://current.com/items/88884194_human_trafficking_spo...
    watch this spot about human trafficking...
    jade_azul16
  • http://current.com/items/89069252_british_born_teenager...
    I added this yesterday about trafficking of british born girls..horrible.
    Owwmykneecap
  • http://current.com/items/89069216_destination_anywhere
    Destination Anywhere. This is a look at those families left behind and those longing to leave. Poverty and underemployment drive much of the population out of the Philippines, where the number one export is people. There are about 11 million overseas Filipino workers around the world who send back over $20 billion in remittances a year, which keeps the Philippine economy afloatÂ…sort of.
    Mr_Costello
  • the world needs to wake up and realize that this modern-day 'slavery' is still going on.
    stepphtarnovetch
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  • All slavery is evil but This modern day slavery is even worse, since the victims are subjected to being raped multiple times a day.Where is the outrage? The punishment should fit the crime and the perpetrators should have to service johns as punishment.
    glabadabadoo
  • Why is this still going on in a free democratric society? It is not really a new story and yet here it is again - I am ashamed.
    andreah
  • This is awful and I hope as more people around the world become aware of the situation something can be done about it.
    prismproductions
  • its messed up i know... but this is what happens when you turn something that was never about monie into something taboo and that could make monie like how when weed was illgaglize and what not yes its horrable but just expect to see more exspesaly in countrys where is it very illegal
    talinh

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