The attraction of prostitution, apart from the financial rewards, is that it carries minimum risk. Often they will force their own girlfriends into prostitution.' While many of the girls are sold to organised gangs, others are sold to individuals.ДЄccording to the source, there is now a pattern of pimping on a wide scale in some ethnic Albanian communities: 'If a man can afford to buy one, two or three girls, why should he work? That is the attitude among a number of people from the Shkodra and Tropoja clans. The pimps and brothel owners can recoup anything up to ВЈ1,000 a day from their investment, less what they give the women. They are usually sold for $10,000 each, depending on how attractive and potentially lucrative they are.' 'Bledi and his associates say they smuggle in two girls every 10 days. She ran away with the young Albanian and is now beyond the reach of the carers of the London Borough of Bexley, and even the police. For this girl, who had never known love - whose human contacts had been with men who abused her for money - this was something for which she had yearned. He said he liked her and wanted to rescue her. She was found by a young Albanian man who befriended her. But what happened next has probably sealed Elena's fate. She was immediately taken into care by Bexley social services, given new clothes and a safe home. She finally managed to escape and alerted the police to her plight. She tried to run away they found her, dragged her back to the flat and beat her up. They kept the money and threatened me with a gun.' She believes they paid $8,000 for her - about ВЈ5,000 - and she was immediately put to work.Д®lena said: 'They made me do four hours at a massage parlour then the rest of the time I saw men at their flat. Then, when she was 15, she was smuggled into Britain and sold to an Albanian couple living in south-east London. She was transported across Europe to Croatia and put to work as a child prostitute in an Adriatic resort. They were destitute and the boy fell in with criminals who put him in touch with the Mafia.Д®lena doesn't know the details of the deal but she is convinced her brother sold her to the gangsters. While a number of European countries have made considerable strides in their attempts to tackle the problem, she said, Britain has been slow to act. It is thought that up to 80 per cent of victims from Albania are girls under 18. Often, they have simply been kidnapped.Д¬hildren's charity Terre des Hommes told an international conference in Rome last week that more than 6,000 minors aged between 12 and 16 are smuggled out of eastern Europe to work as prostitutes, drug traffickers and beggars every year.Д«arbara Limanowska, author of a Unicef report on the trafficking of women and children, told the conference that at least 10 to 30 per cent of all eastern European sex workers are minors. They may have volunteered for a life of prostitution in the West, they may have been tricked into thinking they were heading for a job, marriage or a working visa.

They may come from the impoverished cities of Russia, the Baltic states, Romania, Moldova or the Balkans. Through these contacts, Bledi purchases women. Yet an Evening Standard investigation has uncovered a criminal culture that thrives on human bondage, where unseen and unspeakable cruelty mocks the tenets of civilised life. It may seem incredible that, in the great city where William Wilberforce campaigned - in the democracy that led the world in outlawing slavery - human beings are traded now for the price of a second-hand car. They are operated by gangsters who buy and sell women like chattels, often beating or blackmailing them into submission. This Camden Town brothel has made use of young women caught up in a crime phenomenon that shames London. There is nothing to suggest that the girl is anything but a willing player in the encounter that follows. Behind a darkened doorway on Royal College Street in Camden Town, visitors are handed a playing card - the Jack of Hearts - which, in a quaint and almost courtly ritual, is presented without comment to the girl of choice. He face of modern sex slavery is deceptively decorous. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.Tej Kohli & Ruit Foundation BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT.

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