Nineteen women from eastern Europe thought to have been tricked into becoming sex slaves have been rescued during police raids.
A task force of female officers from West Midlands Police were sent to a massage parlour in Birmingham to free the women on Thursday.
Two people, believed to be customers, were detained during the operation, and one sawn-off shotgun recovered. Three people - a 40-year-old woman from Brierley Hill and two men who were believed to be managers - were arrested.
A force spokesman said: "The women are believed to be of eastern European origin and were tricked into the sex industry.
"They had their passports taken. They were locked into the venue during the evening to work and taken away during the day and locked in a house."
The raids took place at Cuddles massage parlour in Birmingham at 7pm.
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Allow me to repeat one little paragraph:
"They had their passports taken. They were
locked into the venue during the evening
to work and taken away during the day and
locked in a house."
You read about women being forced to become prostitutes. You read about women who can't afford not to be a prostitute. I'm sure there are plenty of reasons why women choose this profession, and even more reasons why they're being forced into the industry. But the fact that women do their job practically chained to the bed... that's something we don't hear much about.
This happens all the time. Sex sells and not just when you put it in a music video or on the cover of a magazine. Sex is being sold and bought like any other product. It's an industry! Many women are being forced to do this. We know about it. Why aren't we doing anything?
What if these were men? What if men were being forced to have sex. I'm sure there are men who might say "yes please!" at the thought of that but seriously... If men were forced to take their clothes off and perform whatever acts the person standing over them is telling them to do... What then? I'm getting certain images of a certain prison playing around in my head.
It's just about money isn't it?
It's always about the money...
this is disgustiing. if i were a lawyer, my rule would have been to force the guilty peope eho committed this crime to death without eating anything.
ReplyDeleteIt's always about the money, the gratification, the power. People want more, more, more. But they want to have to do less to get it.
ReplyDeleteThis kind of thing disgusts me, for so many reasons. It's unjust confinement, for the purpose of sexual slavery.
Why people would do this... I don't understand. How can people not feel anything when they do this to each other?