Migrant Women Trapped in Europe's Sex Industry

[Shallah Kali]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=572&e=1&u=/nm/life_trafficking_dc

Poverty, war, open borders and domestic violence are prompting increasing numbers of people from eastern Europe and beyond to seek work in the wealthy West.

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"The profits are huge and the money the traffickers wave in potential victims' faces would certainly outweigh the salaries they can expect by staying at home," said Richard Danziger, head of the counter-trafficking unit of the International Organization for Migration in Geneva.

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The trade in people for forced sex has mushroomed into a $12 billion industry to rival drug trafficking and gun-running. Because the victims are locked in rooms or moved around in secret, it is almost impossible to trace them.

It also makes quantifying the problem virtually impossible. Five years ago, the British government estimated that as few as 140 or as many as 1,400 women had been smuggled into the country and forced to work as prostitutes.

[Ian David]

1. Recruit anti-gay people in a crusade against this problem

Re-direct their energies elsewhere.

I think this would be a good cause for them, yes?

[jdj]

2. at the Food Lion a couple of miles from my house

a few months ago police pulled over two hispanic men and for whatever reason they decided to search their car. When they opened the trunk, they found two hispanic women gagged and bound. The women said they were prostitutes and had been brought here from Mexico and were being held captive and forced to prostitute themselves by these men, who knows what their fate would have been had the cops not decided to search the car...

It's frightening. Things need to be judged on a case by case basis, forced prositution and sex slavery are realities and always will be despite how sexually liberal our particular culture may be. We don't have to 'pick a side'.

[MountainLaurel]

4. Here in DC

Several years ago, a new student at the middle school where my friend was teaching disappeared on her way home from school. Other students saw her getting into a vehicle. There were a couple articles in the paper shortly after it happened, and then nothing.

A couple months later, the teachers find out that the girl had been sold into prostitution by her parents back in China and brought to the U.S. She was then kidnapped by a rival organized crime group. The investigation led to St. Louis, but that was as far as the police could get in locating her.

[jdj]

5. that is horrifying.

I will think about this for the rest of the day.

My God, how can we call ourselves civilized.

[Megahurtz]

3. Who knows.......

you just might see more of this here in the States if Bushitler continues to push people to the point of desperation.:shrug: