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What happened
Copenhagen Police received a message from the Lithuanian police through Europol that a Lithuanian woman was being held hostage somewhere in Copenhagen and being forced to prostitute herself. Another two days passed before Copenhagen Police were able to locate the address where she was being held. “We got a description of the building that she was being held in from Europol. With a little local knowledge and some people watching on the street, we discovered the place,” Trine Møller Andersen, who leads the Copenhagen Police’s anti-human trafficking efforts, told Jyllands-Posten newspaper. The woman was found in a wretched, cockroach-infested building. But, according to Andersen, she had not been physically harmed and had been given food and water. When police finally found the woman, she handed them a hand-written note. It read – in halting English – that she was being held as a sex slave, that she could not speak English, and that she needed help.
Response and intervention
The 19 year old woman being held as a sex slave found a chance to send an email to a friend in Lithuania, telling him that she was being held prisoner in Denmark. She asked him to tell the Lithuanian police. She also asked him for the English words to write her help note. Following her rescue, the woman was staying at a crisis center. The victim reported herself as a victim to a friend, and the friend notifies authorities. http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=161_1310497798