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Luton, England, United Kingdom

-Police arrested the defendants on various dates between Dec 2007 and May 2008. -a Turkish national and naturalised British citizen pleaded guilty on 22nd of September to two counts of controlling a brothel. He was given nine years for trafficking within the United Kingdom for sexual exploitation, to be served consecutively with five years for controlling prostitution for gain; five years for controlling a child prostitute; four years for the first count of controlling a brothel for the use of prostitution; four years for the second count of controlling a brothel for the use of prostitution, leading to total imprisonment of 14 years. -a Slovakian national, was found guilty of trafficking into the UK. He was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. -a Czech Republic national, was found guilty of trafficking into the UK for sexual exploitation. He was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. -a Kosovon national, was found guilty and sentenced to 11 years for trafficking within the UK and five years, to be served concurrently, for controlling a child prostitute. -another Turkish national was found guilty on 3.11.08 and sentenced to two and a half years for controlling a child prostitute, and 15 months, to be served concurrently, for controlling a brothel for the use of prostitution. -an Albanian national was found guilty and sentenced on 4.11.08 to three years for controlling a prostitute for gain. Charges of unlawful wounding and assault occasioning actual bodily harm will lie on file.

Location
United Kingdom · Luton, England · 2007 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
The victim called police to report that a man had attacked her. The Met's Human Trafficking Team took on the investigation when she told police that she had been trafficked into the UK from her home country of Slovakia in September 2006 when she was 16 years old. The victim called police http://nnet-server.com/server/common/eacrim99.htm

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