Shall we end child-slavery in Britain?
This is not an exclusively English story. There is now all too much of this going on in the U. S.
We shall call her L: L for Lithuanian, the nationality of the 15-year-old girl who arrived in Britain last year looking for work in a cafe, but was then kidnapped, raped and repeatedly traded on the female used-body market. Shaban Maka, her original abductor, collected her at Heathrow airport from her travelling companion - a charming character who apparently got away with his crime - and sold her on to an unnamed Albanian for ã4,000.
This worthy - who also seems to have avoided justice - raped her and then made her work in a brothel in Birmingham. L escaped but was recaptured and sent to work in another brothel in Coventry, where she was sold to yet another Albanian, Xhevahir Pisha, for ã3,000. He made her work in a brothel in Leicester, but L - oh the wretched ingrate! - ran away again. She was later recaptured, and taken to London, where she was traded several more times by various Albanians before she again fetched ã3,000, and was taken to Sheffield.
One problem about these ex-industrial cities is that goods never keep their value: the next time L was sold it was for only ã1,500, to a 25-year old Kosovan, Ilir Barjami, who of course raped her. He then made her work as a prostitute again, before, barefoot and helped by three local women, she escaped and fled to the police. I will remind you: L was just 15.
If this isn't a Terror worth a war, I don't know what is. Snip
Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2005-03-19 |