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What have UK punters got that you haven’t, Jacqui Smith?
FOR SEVERAL years now, the UK media has focussed from time to time on the plight of “sex slaves” – young women arriving from abroad and forced to work as prostitutes.
Sometimes we are told there are thousands, sometimes tens of thousands, of incarcerated, young foreign would-be nannies being multiply raped at gunpoint in the nation’s clandestine brothels.
That such appalling cases exist is clear from media headlines of sensational cases. But how extensive really is the UK’s population of victims of Human Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation (HTfSE)?
Does it warrant Government moves towards a permanent trade boycott of the 80,000-strong army of UK residents who, it says, make their living from prostitution, by threatening court action against millions of their British customers?
What is human trafficking?
To discuss how many trafficking victims there are in the UK, we must start by defining trafficking. Read the rest of this entry »
