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Police rescue 30 women from sex slavery



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MORE than 30 women trafficked to Scotland and forced to work as sex slaves have been rescued by police in the past four months, according to figures released today.
The second phase of nationwide sex trafficking crackdown Operation Pentameter has seen raids on brothels in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Stirling.

Police launched the operation in October last year, following the success of Pentameter I in which Scottish officers visited 25 premises, made 12 arrests and rescued six women, including one girl under 18. Across the UK, there were more than 200 arrests, 120 people were charged and 84 women were rescued.

The first Pentameter II raids in Edinburgh found seven women – most of them from the Far East – who had travelled to Britain to pay off a family debt and ended up working in the Capital's sex industry.

Police also found one Romanian woman who had been repeatedly raped by human traffickers on the way to London, before being taken to work in a Capital brothel.

A second raid in late-December also uncovered a further six women being forced to work as prostitutes.





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  • Last Updated: 14 February 2008 1:35 PM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
  • Related Topics: Edinburgh's sex industry
 
1

Jingsitsme,

EDINBURGH 14/02/2008 15:13:20
Time all this was dealt with aggressively and rid our city of this type of business but I doubt we have low class so called people who will stop at nothing.
2

Why can't I use my usual name?,

Glasgow 14/02/2008 16:17:26
Prosecute the punters. They know what they're doing.
3

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14/02/2008 16:34:36
Comment Removed By Administrator
Reason:
4

The Fly Fifer,

Fife 14/02/2008 22:26:09
Ok you wives reading this, lets do some mathemetics

lets say these 30 prostitutes are 10% of the prostitute numbers in Scotland therefore 300, lets say they turn 5 tricks a day each (on the low side) thats 1500 tricks turned in Scotland on any one day, next lets say after days off, sick days for repair to hurt women we make it a five day week thats 7500 tricks per week in Scotland,

Now that means 390,000 tricks per year lets now say for arguement sake that each John uses a prostitute 5 times a year that leaves a figure of 78,000 individual Johns.

now ladies .............. look at your husband or male friend or boyfriend or work collegue and try to guess
1. are they a user?
2. are they regular users?
3. do they go for sex of any "special" kind?
4. if they are how much do they pay?
5. what could you do with the money they spend on sex?
5

Allan(handofgod137),

15/02/2008 12:43:52
See my comment at #4 was removed, what's the problem Scotsman? Is suggesting that many of the women came here illegaly to work as wh*res and then claimed they were foced into it when caught in order to claim asylum under false pretences a bit to close to the truth?

 

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