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What happened
The traffickers confined the 2 runaway girls to a motel room, and among other victims, forced them to prostitute themselves, police said. The group of teenagers confined two 15-year-old runaway girls at a motel in northern Seoul, forced them to strip and hit each other on Feb. 21. They forced another victim they had confined, a 13-year-old girl, to film the scene of violence with a cell phone, telling the girls that they would spread the video clip on the Internet if they ran away. The boys, armed with a knife, kidnapped the two girls by car Monday and threatened to kill them if they refused to prostitute themselves. They also attempted to rape the girls. The girls managed to escape, but the teenage gang uploaded the footage on their blogs. With the video clip enraging Internet users, they removed it, but police tracked them down. They are also suspected of having pimped three girls over 60 times and made five million won between last October and November.
Response and intervention
Police sought arrest warrants for two 19-year-old girls and four boys, aged between 18 and 21, in Gimpo, Gyeonggi Province, Wednesday, on charges of abusing the middle school girls and uploading video footage on the Internet. They are also suspected of intimidating them into prostitution and pimping other girls. Another boy involved was booked without physical detention, while two others were already behind bars for other crimes, according to police.