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What happened
Helsinki's Court of Appeals has convicted two Estonian men of human trafficking. The convicts were found guilty of forcing a developmentally disabled woman to prostitute herself. The court found that the men kept the woman in an apartment in Helsinki and sold her to more than a hundred men over the course of three weeks. The crimes took place in the summer of 2008. Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/teksti/news/2009/12/two_men_convicted_of_human_trafficking_in_helsinki_1325203.html Source: http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Prosecutor+calls+for+prison+sentences+in+human+trafficking+case/1135240997757
Response and intervention
A lower court had given the men suspended 10-month sentences, but the appeals court sentenced both convicts to one and a half years in prison. The trafficking of a developmentally disabled woman was the most grievous accusation in a large package of criminal charges relating to the human trafficking ring, in which around 40 men have been charged. Source: http://yle.fi/uutiset/teksti/news/2009/12/two_men_convicted_of_human_trafficking_in_helsinki_1325203.html Source: http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Prosecutor+calls+for+prison+sentences+in+human+trafficking+case/1135240997757