Sex Trafficking2008
Scotland, United Kingdom, 2008
United Kingdom GB
Raid occurred freeing 59 women from trafficking in Scotland.
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CSEC2008
Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2008
United Kingdom GB
The 15-year-old victim came to Britain from Lithuania for a summer job, expecting to work in a restaurant or café. She was traveling with a man from Lithuania who took her passport after arriving in Heathrow airport and introduced her to Shaban Maka, Ilir Barjami, Xhevahir Pisha, and Lina Yunel. She was then sold and taken to Birmingham to work in a brothel. She escaped, but was taken again to Coventry, and sold again to Pisha to paid 3,000 Pounds for her. She was taken to a brothel in Leicester, where she was told to repay him by working as a prostitute. She ran away again, and was once again captured and taken to London, where she was sold several times again until she was finally taken to Sheffield. There, Barjami paid 1,500 Pounds for her, and kept her in his apartment for a time before taking her to a sauna to get her work. In total, the ordeal lasted 3 months.
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Sex Trafficking2008
United kingdom, United Kingdom, 2008
United Kingdom GB
Thomas John Carroll, his daughter Toma Carroll, and Shaemial Clark. They have all denied joint charges of human trafficking into the UK, out of the UK, and controlling prostitution and money laundering.
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CSEC2007
Luton, England, United Kingdom, 2007
United Kingdom GB
-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.
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Sex Trafficking2005
Bearwood, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2005
United Kingdom GB
Carl Pritchett owned Cuddles Massage Parlous in Bearwood, and ran the establishment with two associates: Susan Richards, who managed the brothel, and Nathan Langston, who worked maintenance. The victims were held at a nearby house during the day, and taken to Cuddles each evening. The massage parlor is located on Hagley Road, near the center of Birmingham. The victims had their passports and other travel documents taken from them. Cuddles had 12 rooms, an electric fence at the back of the building, and several of the windows were boarded.
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Sex Trafficking2005
Medway towns, Kent, England, United Kingdom, 2005
United Kingdom GB
A Chinese man was found in the same flat as the woman and arrested on suspicion of being involved with trafficking women for prostitution.
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Sex Trafficking2005
Pitsmore, Sheffield, United Kingdom, 2005
United Kingdom GB
3 Eastern European men from Kosovo, Albania & Lithuania trafficked 2 girls (18 & 19 years old) from Lithuania to Sheffield (one girl was further trafficked to London – this case can also be viewed on Slavery Map). On arrival at Gatwick airport, their passports were taken and they were auctioned to a group of men in the ‘Costa’ coffee bar. They were then taken to a flat in Sheffield to begin ‘working’ under threat of torture or death. They were told that they would be kept in baths of ice or shot dead if they refused to sleep with who they were told. The traffickers also threatened that if they disobeyed, they would be sold onto traffickers in London, who would lock them up and give them no food. Both girls were never left unattended and all calls were monitored.
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CSEC2004
Hounslow, London, England, United Kingdom, 2004
United Kingdom GB
A young man befriended the 16 year-old girl in Lithuania, where he introduced her to his “friends” at a nightclub. They offered her an exciting, all expenses paid, ‘Sport’s Trip’ to London. She forged a permission letter from her parents, and the men took her to Sheffield where she was sold – they confiscated her ID card which proved she was 16. She was then sold to four/five Albanian brothers (ages 21, 22, 32, 33) who were operating a brothel in Hounslow, London. They told her she had to work to pay for the cost to transport her from Sheffield to London. The brothel operated 24/7 and the girls were given one day off a week. Girls were told that they would receive a share of their profits once the debt had been paid off. She was given a fake name and was allowed to make occasional phone calls to her family in Lithuania, but was too frightened to tell them about her situation. The gang also occasionally sent £100 or so, which the prosecution argued was to imply that the girl was doing well in the UK. The girl reports that she was forced to sleep with as many as 10 men per day, and earned her traffickers around £800 per day. She received no money.
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Domestic Servitude2003
London, England, United Kingdom, 2003
United Kingdom GB
Arab slave traders raided and destroyed the village of a 12-year old girl in the Nuba mountains of Sudan. She was repeatedly raped, then sold into slavery as a domestic servant in Khartoum. Eventually she was sold to an Arab family in London. She was never paid and was emotionally abused. More information: "Slave" (the book) by Mende Nazer and Damien Lewis, Virago Press, Great Britain, 2004, 2008.
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