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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-04 09:51 AM
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Immigrant women reveal how Britain is home to sex slavery
The Independent
By Robert Verkaik, Legal Affairs Correspondent
04 December 2004


Kristie looks and speaks like many of the other young women out shopping in south-east London yesterday. Only a small scar above her left eye betrays her horrific past.

Sold by her father into sexual slavery at the age of 18, Kristie has spent 10 years working against her will in brothels in Brussels, Paris and London.

The scar marks where she was savagely punched in the face by one of the men who paid to have sex with her. But she says she received far more vicious beatings from the gang members who trafficked her from her farm in Albania to the Soho "model" flats in London's red light district.

Kristie's story will be told today for the first time at a conference on prostitution which partly aims to tackle the growing trade in sex trafficking..........................

Reliable statistics are hard to come by, but the most recent figures suggest that 80 per cent of the 5,000 women working in the London off-street sex industry are foreign.

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/story.jsp?story=589596
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noclonyofthechimp Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-04 10:09 AM
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1. I watched a very disturbing documentary on PBS this week regarding
this and there is also an article in "The Prospect" an estimated 50,000 of these women and children are trafficked here in the US on a yearly basis. If I won the lottery, I would end my business and this would be my full time job. Volunteering as much as I could to help stop this unbelievably inhumane business.:puke:
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Carl Brennan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-04-04 10:42 AM
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2. Why is Tony Blair trying to protect this paedophile ring?
Blair defending paedophile ring http://www.propagandamatrix.com/blair_protection.html

NATO boss and Blair government insider Lord Robertson has threatened to sue Scotland's leading independent newspaper over internet allegations that he not only used
his influence as a Freemason to procure a gun licence for child killer Thomas Hamilton, but was also a member of a clandestine paedophile ring reportedly set up by Hamilton for the British elite.

On 13 March 1996, Hamilton, armed with four hand-guns, opened fire on a junior school class, killing 16 children and one teacher before turning the gun on himself, shattering forever the idyllic 13th century Scottish town of Dunblane.

The controversy is certain to topple the Blair government, which has already issued a D-Notice to gag the press from revealing the names of known paedophiles within the British executive, including at least two senior ministers; and the case highlights the government's antipathy toward the Sunday Herald and its brand of independent journalism that has, among other things, exposed the role played by the domestic security agency, MI5, in helping the IRA to carry out terrorist atrocities. ....... more

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