Sex Trafficking
Dublin, Ireland, Ireland
T.J. Carroll, age 49, Irish citizen living in Wales. Shamiela Clark, age 32, wife of T.J. Carroll, originally from South Africa and a former prostitute. Toma Carroll, 25, Irish citizen, daughter of T.J. Carroll from previous marriage and former law student. Women and girls from many countries were brought into Ireland for purposes of sex work. Some brought in from Nigeria had been forced to participate in a voodoo ritual with a witch doctor that would supposedly curse those who tried to leave or who tried to tell the authorities of the work they were doing. Many of the women were beaten if they fell short of complying with the brothel's rules, and in some cases, their family members were actually beaten and then forced to phone the women, describing to them what had happened. Many of the women had been told they were going to Ireland for educational opportunities, but were instead forced to work 15-hour shifts in the brothels to pay back a debt that in some cases reached 60,000 euros.
2008