Human/Sex Trafficking a world wide evil!
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VILE pimps strike
a deal on Britain’s
busiest shopping street –
to sell a woman
as a sex slave,
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reports Mike Sullivan
for The U.K. Sun
December 7th, 2009.
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The shocking police surveillance
photo shows one Albanian coolly
handing £3,000 in cash to two
others outside Selfridges on
London’s Oxford Street.
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The “merchandise”,
a Lithuanian girl in her 20s,
stands to the left, helplessly
watching the deal.
She is a prisoner,
guarded by another thug
just out of the picture.
She would have been expected
to earn her new owner £100,000
a year by having sex up to 25 times
a day in a brothel.
But she was lucky.
Cops swooped to free her –
and a gang of Albanian people
traffickers were all jailed for
a total of 63 years.
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Many other girls
are not so fortunate.
The Home Office estimated that in 2003,
4,000 women were trafficked into
the UK for prostitution.
Some came willingly,
but others were tricked here
with the promise of jobs,
then held captive and forced
to work as sex slaves.
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Worryingly,
senior officers fear the numbers of
East Europeans being trafficked is
growing steeply as London prepares
to host the Olympic Games in 2012.
Police released the photo on this
page for the first time to raise
awareness of the evil trade.
Detective Chief
Superintendent Richard Martin,
of the Metropolitan Police Clubs
and Vice Unit, said:
“The man to the left in
the picture has £3,000 in
cash in his hand,
with which he is buying
a human being.”
“She is just a
commodity to them.
She is an item for selling sex.”
“The man is buying the
girl for his own brothel
from the men to his right,
who ran a network of nine brothels.”
“He is simply replenishing his stock,
as a shopkeeper would.”
These women are put into slavery
and exploited in the vilest way.”
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A rise in vice activity has been
detected in the five Olympic boroughs
of Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets,
Waltham Forest and Greenwich
to cater for demand from 25,000
construction workers.
A special police squad has been
set up to tackle vice barons cashing
in on the Olympics.
Officers are visiting ex-Eastern bloc
countries to warn girls not to be
tricked into coming to Britain.
Det Supt Martin said 25 trafficked
women had been rescued by his
unit this year.
He went on:
“We have had people kidnapped
and smuggled into the UK.”
“Others came thinking they were
working in bars but were put to
work in brothels.”
“Their passports were taken,
they were threatened –
and some were systematically
raped and beaten up.”
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The men seen selling the
girl are Izzet Fejzullahu, 32,
and Agran Demarku, 22.
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________IZZET FEJZULLAHU
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_________AGRAN DEMARKU
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The buyer is Gazmet Turku.
The man guarding the victim
was Demarku’s brother Flamur, 34.
Fejzullahu was jailed for 14 years
at London’s Southwark Crown Court
for controlling prostitution.
Demarku got 18 years,
as did Flamur.
Turku was jailed for
running a brothel.
The girl,
one of 21 sex slaves rescued
when the gang was smashed,
has now gone home to her family.
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Det Chief Supt Martin added:
“Shoppers passed by
without a second thought.
After all,
who could possibly imagine
a woman being sold
on Oxford Street?”
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Human/Sex trafficking links in GREEN
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I wish more celebrities
would get in on this issue,
more than those that are
trying to clean up their image.
My Social Relevance - December 12, 2009 at 8:03 am |