Posted on 06/07/2006 10:12:57 AM PDT by VeritatisSplendor
WOMEN are being sold off in "slave auctions" in the arrivals lounges of British airports, say authorities desperate to crack down on the burgeoning trade in trafficking humans.
The Crown Prosecution Service said foreign women were being sold as sex workers as soon as they arrived, and police are appealing to men who frequent brothels to contact them in confidence if they believe the prostitutes may be there against their will.
In one instance a slave auction took place outside a coffee shop in the arrivals hall of London-Gatwick airport, and it is believed similar auctions have taken place at airports across the country.
The arrivals-lounge auction was one of several "airport crimes" due to be examined at a Crown Prosecution Service conference yesterday. Others include children abandoned in baggage reclaim areas with no identity papers, "distraction" thefts and pick-pocketing by criminals working in teams, and burglaries by criminals who read the addresses on baggage labels and break in on the likelihood that homes will be empty.
A Home Office report five years ago estimated that the number of victims of human trafficking in Britain was 1400. But the present figure could be double that, said Tim Brain, the chief constable of Gloucestershire, who heads Operation Pentameter, a multi-agency task force set up in February to combat trafficking.
The prosecution service conference coincides with criticisms levelled at the Government by children's charities, who believe its response to the trafficking of children is "completely inadequate". "There is no co-ordination of trafficking crime units. There is an ad hoc approach across the country," said Christine Beddoe, the director of a coalition of children's charities called End Child Prostitution, Pornography and Trafficking. "There is a total inadequacy in social services support … no guidance and training for health workers in knowing how to identify a trafficked child."
The Guardian
Mrs VS
What is the price of a sex slave and do they do light housekeeping?
Indian restaurants, Jamaican reggae, Albanian brothels - Britain is a much richer place now, isn't it?
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Kindly read up on Victorian prostitution before you pretend that this is a recent and new foreign problem. England and sex vice go back a long, long, long way.
Please use the politically correct term for "sex slave": husband. No they don't do light housekeeping, but they'll work 60 hours/week of labor for five minutes of nookie every three to five weeks.
All depends on your perspective... :0)
Talk about your full service coffee shops! I wonder if they also offer wi-fi?
There's a big difference between a Victorian street-walker and a 15 y.o. girl speaking no English, held in a brothel under the threat of death.
We are talking about slaves here, not practitioners of the world's oldest profession.
Mrs VS
There's a big difference between a Victorian street-walker and a 15 y.o. girl speaking no English, held in a brothel under the threat of death.
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Yeah. In the latter situation, the girl speaks no English.
Again, read up on the subject. The Victorians didn't acknowledge whores or sex but they sure used 'em.
I believe you are correct.
Throughout history many prostitutes have lived in conditions of actual or near slavery.
English country girls used to routinely be lured to Belgium or France with offers of legitimate employment and then forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, French girls were lured to London under similar pretexts and treated the same on arrival.
There is very little new under the sun.
Read up about the Albanian mafia.
Mrs VS
a live webcam would help my analysis...
I can't top that! That's the sad reality.
Lets keep our eye on the ball, shall we?
You two arguing that auctioning off slaves in modern England isn't that bad because people in the past also did horrible things is rediculous. I don't care if they used to hunt children with gargoyles for fun, it in no way ameliorates the vile criminal acts taking place now, and that need to be aggressively fought.>>
Of course it should be combated. What I'm saying is that blaming sex slavery on "foreigners" (like Albanians) says far more about the accuser than the accused. The British have been having sex with unwilling prostitutes for centuries. Just like the rest of the world.
It still all depends on your perspective! ;^)
Victorian reformers had rescue missions for prostitutes who wanted to leave. Increased economic opportunity gave poor girls other options. Law enforcement made it more difficult for entrapment to occur. Prostitution wasn't eliminated but at least it was voluntary.
The British open borders policy has brought back an evil - involuntary prostitution, sex slavery - that was mostly wiped out a century ago in that nation.
Mrs VS
Several times in my late 20s I traded free room and board in my house in exchange for a live-in maid. I found that the housekeeping stops if anything else starts.
Now, the Islamic terrorists have slave auctions at the airports.
The Brits will go along again.
They are apparently all "french" now.
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