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
"but they'll work 60 hours/week of labor for five minutes of nookie every three to five weeks."
Time to go on strike!
I personally think the Islamofascists are looking for all nations to fly the white flag (AKA the French Battle Flag) at all airports.
No, farmers.
There's a reason corporations call it "Human Resources"
Outsourcing consultants are guilty too.
You can't make butter with a toothpick.
Then, tell her she's a prostitute. She won't like that, but insist that she is. After she gives you a break between the steam blasts out of her ears -- tell her that it has already been established that she's a prostitute, the two of you are just arguing about the price.
That seems pretty funny ....... UNTIL YOU SEE THE CRUMBY JOB THE GIRL DID ON YOUR HOUSE!
P., I only pinged you because those are the rules here.
"Frontline" did a show about this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/
Your logic is impeccable.
May I buy you as my sex slave?
I believe it was Oscar Wilde who put the issue so well.
No, that would be the second oldest profession :D
All in the name of "free trade".
This isn't any bargain, because she doesn't speak English.. Wake up guys, it doesn't say she is quiet.. sheeesh.. Who hasn't heard a woman babbling and you didn't understand a word of what she was saying!! DUH! Sex or no sex, it didn't make her any less annoying.. :)
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