Posted on 06/07/2006 10:12:57 AM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
WOMEN are being sold off in "slave auctions" in the arrivals lounges of British airports, say authorities desperate to crack down on the burgeoning trade in trafficking humans.
The Crown Prosecution Service said foreign women were being sold as sex workers as soon as they arrived, and police are appealing to men who frequent brothels to contact them in confidence if they believe the prostitutes may be there against their will.
In one instance a slave auction took place outside a coffee shop in the arrivals hall of London-Gatwick airport, and it is believed similar auctions have taken place at airports across the country.
The arrivals-lounge auction was one of several "airport crimes" due to be examined at a Crown Prosecution Service conference yesterday. Others include children abandoned in baggage reclaim areas with no identity papers, "distraction" thefts and pick-pocketing by criminals working in teams, and burglaries by criminals who read the addresses on baggage labels and break in on the likelihood that homes will be empty.
A Home Office report five years ago estimated that the number of victims of human trafficking in Britain was 1400. But the present figure could be double that, said Tim Brain, the chief constable of Gloucestershire, who heads Operation Pentameter, a multi-agency task force set up in February to combat trafficking.
The prosecution service conference coincides with criticisms levelled at the Government by children's charities, who believe its response to the trafficking of children is "completely inadequate". "There is no co-ordination of trafficking crime units. There is an ad hoc approach across the country," said Christine Beddoe, the director of a coalition of children's charities called End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking. "There is a total inadequacy in social services support no guidance and training for health workers in knowing how to identify a trafficked child."
The Guardian
I do not disagree. I was merely attempting to point out that such evils are nothing new.
>Please use the politically correct term for "sex slave": husband.<
LOL! Nothing dark about YOU, Vader!
Who needs a clean house anyway.
Cuz that makes too much sense, maybe?
I've been to Britain before, and I must say: Without indian food, the island would lack any suitable eating estabilishments.
The British are good people, but the cuisine is lacking. OTOH, the indian food in Britan is some of the finest in the world.
Asians and hispanics suffer the same fate in the good ole USA.
I am 3/4 of a century old, born and bred right here in the U.S.A., and I recall being warned of White Slavery as a child. It doesn't take another country, and it's been going on since the beginning of time, but that doesn't make it acceptable in any way, shape or form! I am concerned for my blue eyed, blonde co-ed granddaughter going to Bolivia soon, but it could just as well happen in our own town. We must warn our children, both sons and daughters.
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Illegal Immigration, Human Trafficking, and Organized Crime
Just like our authorities they have to hold meetings, debate the issue, allocate funds and then maybe they'll do something.
In the meantime, business continues as usual for the authorities and the slave traders.
No cynicism here. ;)
Prostitute: I'll do anything you want for $200 dollars.
Man: Here's your cash, now paint my house!
They're midwives?
Trafficking in human persons is a grave crime and sin against the inborn dignity of man. It saddens me that people would treat this as a joke. If anyone is envisioning Best Little Whorehouse in Texas or Pretty Woman or Irma La Douce or Never On A Sunday or countless other Hollywood glamourizing of prostitution think again.
Think 11 year old boys sold to Mid Eastern Pedophiles
Think of children and young adults in Africa kidnapped to serve as prostitutes for soldiers. The so called Army of God comes to mind.
Think of virgins forced into brothels so that clients can be assured that they will not contact AIDs.
Think of women who are told that they will be working as housekeepers, aupairs, nannys, models, and other trades that promise them new life in America/ Western Europe. But instead find themselves in debt to their
" benefactors". A debt that they are told can only be can only be paid off by sexual slavery.
A sexual slavery that is enforced by beatings, drug use, intimidation, threats to the lives of the woman and their families.
And please do not forget to think about the organized crime syndicates who are behind human trafficking. You think drug trade reaps a profit? Well it is a spit in the ocean compared to human trafficking.
And do not forget the citizens who keep the sex slave trade alive by seeing a human being as just another commodity.
No civilized nation can tolerate Human Trafficking. Its harm to the public good, its rape of innocence and its loathsome fruit must be fought and stamped out.
You people are something else! You are gifted with a rare flair - a wonderful sense of humor. Thanks for sharing it. :o)
practitioners of the world's oldest profession.
They're midwives?
>>>
That's the *second* oldest profession. Or maybe third, after 'mother.'
The Brits have very good fish and chips, steak and kidney pie, bangers and mash, yorkshire pudding, ...
On the 60 hours a week, you are correct.
On the 5 minutes, you're getting the short end of that stick. (If you know what I mean)
One hour 3 to 5 times a week is the going rate, at least when you're dealing with me. ;^)
On the 5 minutes, you're getting the short end of that stick. (If you know what I mean)>>
The size of the stick is not the problem....
I once was approached by a sex slave who said she'd do anything for $100 US. I had her paint my house.
5 minutes isn't even a warm up.
:^0 (ooops, did I say that out loud?)
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