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| Ukrainian woman detained in Zaporozhe for sex trafficking crimes |
| 2018-09-04 |
| Translation unedited. See the article for links to other stories. [Novorosinform] Law enforcement officers of Zaporizhzhya together with border guards detained an 18-year-old local woman who was engaged in the recruitment of girls into sexual slavery abroad. This was reported by the press service of the regional police. According to the police, the figurine was engaged in the recruitment and movement of women, including underage girls. She received money for selling them to sexual slavery abroad. Investigation of criminal proceedings continues, the detainee faces from 5 to 12 years in prison. In August, it was reported that in the Volyn region, a man tried to sell two Ukrainian women to sex slavery. In July in the Kharkiv region, a resident of Sumy tried to take three Ukrainian women to Myanmar for the purpose of sexual exploitation. On June 29, on the border with Poland at the "Grushev-Budomesh" checkpoint, policemen detained a pimp who tried to sell two girls to sexual slavery in Slovakia. At the end of 2017, sex workers thanked Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Rosenko for positive changes in the issue of legalization of prostitution. Earlier, a petition was published on the website of the President of Ukraine with the proposal to legalize prostitution in the country for replenishment of the budget and pension fund. Note that on February 5, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine recorded more than twofold increase in the slave trade in 2017 . This is indicated by the statistics provided by the General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine. According to most criminologists, the real crime rate is 3 to 5 times higher than the registered one. That is, 340 registered cases of human trafficking should be multiplied by five. In October last year, the Communications Department of the National Police said that for 9 months of 2017, the Ukrainian police recorded 263 crimes related to trafficking in persons . This figure is almost three times more than for the entire 2016, the National Policy said in a statement. |
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