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| Shall we end child-slavery in Britain? |
| 2005-03-19 |
| 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 £4,000. 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 £3,000. 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 £3,000, 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 £1,500, 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 |
| #1 On the plus side, in the US, in Washington State I believe, is a federal police unit with the sole job of breaking up slavery rings. In the only piece I ever saw about this SWAT-like operation, it showed a unit that was continually busy and had sky-high morale. Ironically, they always prosecute slavers with some non-slavery statutes, as to charge someone with "slavery" is by itself almost so prejudicial they couldn't get a fair trial. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2005-03-19 9:47:18 PM |