Sex slavery still alive and well in England

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KHYRON

Monday, March 19, 2007 1:32 PM

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6459369.stm

Young women tricked into coming to England, often by boyfriends, are being sold off in auctions at airport coffee shops as soon as they arrive.

They are among the thousands of women brought into the UK to be sex slaves, usually with no idea of their fate. The trade was one of the findings of a BBC News website investigation into slavery in 21st Century England. As the UK marks 200 years since the Parliamentary Act to abolish the slave trade, slavery goes on in another form. The slave trade, outlawed by legislation introduced in March 1807, saw people from Africa transported en masse to the Americas by the UK and other European countries. Modern day victims of slavery are often young women from eastern Europe, thinking they are coming to England to work as cleaners or au pairs, only to be forced into prostitution. The Home Office estimated in 2003 that 4,000 women were trafficked into the UK for sexual exploitation. It is thought the figure may have grown since. Police forces from Cornwall to Northumbria have found themselves having to rescue women and prosecute the traffickers who brought them to England to work as sex slaves. And as well as foreign citizens coming to the UK, charity workers in Manchester told the BBC they believed British women working in massage parlours had been sold abroad, because they owed the owners money. Child protection organisations and human rights groups also believe there are thousands of child sex slaves in the UK.

The UK Human Trafficking Centre was opened last year to co-ordinate the law-enforcement approach to the problem. A spokesman told the BBC women were sometimes sold off in auctions in airport coffee shops and restaurants as they arrived in the country. And he said there were also many cases of English women, from backgrounds of poverty, being sold from town to town to work as prostitutes. But it is now believed that as many as 85% of women working in brothels in the UK have come from overseas - in the mid-1990s, an estimated 85% were UK citizens. Operation Pentameter, a Home Office initiative aimed at rescuing sex workers held against their will carried out between January and July 2006, saw 84 trafficked women rescued, including 12 aged 14 to 17. Some 230 arrests were made and more than £250,000 in cash was seized - but officers were only able to visit about 10% of the estimated number of sex establishments in the country.

The Poppy Project, a London-based scheme which provides accommodation and support for the women, has had 581 victims referred to it since its launch in 2003. Its own research in 2004 found evidence of "off street" prostitution in every one of London's 33 boroughs, again with the overwhelming majority of workers in brothels, saunas and massage parlours being non-British nationals. The Helen Bamber Foundation, set up to help victims of torture and other human rights violations, said women being forced into sex slavery in England were experiencing "horrific brutality", with physical violence and the psychological trauma of being forced into sex. Many women rescued from the sex trade have said they were sold, or strongly encouraged into heading for the UK, by boyfriends or family members. Many think they are coming to work in jobs such as cleaning or ice cream selling. Jiera, a 19-year-old from Lithuania who was helped by the Poppy Project, thought she was coming to London on holiday with friends, only to find they were people traffickers who sold her into prostitution. She said: "When I was with clients I tried to pretend I was doing something else, but I couldn't. It made me so angry that I was often violent towards the clients.

"The man who owned me beat me and then sold me on. I was too much trouble. "Even if my friends don't judge me for what happened, they will always know what I did. They will never forget, and neither can I." Many police forces - and not only in major metropolitan areas - have set up specific teams to deal with the problem. Sussex Police appointed a detectiv

KANEMAN

Monday, March 19, 2007 5:12 PM

I don't buy this bullshit. Who would be banging these slave whores? Certainly not English men....Shit they are all gay. Right? That's like saying American boxers are being brought to France to fight in the French Boxing Association. Whatever..........

SIGNYM

Monday, March 19, 2007 5:17 PM

dbl

SIGNYM

Monday, March 19, 2007 5:18 PM

Unfortunately, sex slavery is alive and well everywhere, but especially in Thailand, Cambodia, Colombia, Brazil, the Phillipines, India and the United States.
The Modern Scourge of Sex Slavery
www.military.com/NewContent/0,13190,SOF_0904_Slavery1,00.html

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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.

OLDENGLANDDRY

Monday, March 19, 2007 5:21 PM

Right, and it never happens in any other country.
Take a walk down the streets of your own home town sometime.

OLDENGLANDDRY

Monday, March 19, 2007 5:23 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by kaneman:
I don't buy this bullshit. Who would be banging these slave whores? Certainly not English men....Shit they are all gay. Right? That's like saying American boxers are being brought to France to fight in the French Boxing Association. Whatever..........

Hmmm, American Boxers?
Is that a kind of underwear?

If so it would'nt be possible to find a pair big enough to fit your enourmous Arse.

KHYRON

Monday, March 19, 2007 5:50 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by oldenglanddry:
Right, and it never happens in any other country.
Take a walk down the streets of your own home town sometime.

Uhm, in case you thought I was an American trying to smear the UK, I live in Somerset.

I thought this article was important because this kind of stuff also happens at home and not just some crazy countries far, far away.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.

SIGNYM

Monday, March 19, 2007 6:00 PM

As far as Kaneman is concerned, nothing of interest exists outside of the USA. My apologizes for a fellow citizen.

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Reality sucks. Especially when it contradicts our cherished ideas.

AGENTROUKA

Monday, March 19, 2007 6:09 PM

What freaks me out the most is the fact that there must be a big demand for forced prostitutes.

I can't imagine that most customers don't notice that the person whose time they paid for is.. terrified, totally numb and/or unwilling, even if they are acting nice with the threat of brutal violence in their minds.

Just how many otherwise "normal" men are walking around who would engage in this kind of thing?? Or is this a more specific clientele, like pedophiles? People who like to force themelves on people? Is that big business?

Are there demographic studies about customers of prostitution?

KANEMAN

Monday, March 19, 2007 6:28 PM

"Just how many otherwise "normal" men are walking around who would engage in this kind of thing??"

Probably a lot. Shit I would do it, I just wouldn't pay for it. Isn't rape just so much easier?

Oh, this kind of thing would never happen in the US of motha fofo A. We have morals.

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