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TEEN SEX IN NEWRY
Girl forced to work in brothel after job promise
(By PAULA MACKIN Investigative Journalist of the Year)
A TEENAGE girl has been rescued from a Newry brothel.
The young female is from Romania, aged between 16 and 18 years old and was lured by her captors by the promise of a job.
She was then raped, held against her will and forced to have sex with countless men on a daily basis.
Living under constant threat from her pimp, she was helpless, praying each day that someone would come and help.
Last month her prayers were answered when a local man became aware of her plight when his Eastern European wife was told of the teenager's location.
The girl was working as a sex worker under the control of a Brazilian pimp, based in Dublin, who is senior operator in the Romanian sex trafficking gang.
Seedy
The Sunday World can reveal at least three brothels are being run in Newry city alone by the same boss as the rescued girl and girls are forced to work in seedy sex dens throughout Ireland.
The girl was taken to safety by the couple who, through their contacts, began to make plans to return the young girl to her family, a broken and terrified child.
She was discovered, alone, in a house in Talbot Street in the border city.
"This girl was barely even 16 if you looked at her— I just can't believe that this is going on," her rescuer, who cannot be identified for his own safety, told the Sunday World. "When we turned up to the house in Newry we found the girl on her own. She was clearly in a very emotional state, not making much sense. We decided straight away to get her away from whatever type of hell she was being forced into.
"As we took her out of the house a white Audi car drove right up beside us with an irate driver. I think the man was from Spain.
"He became very aggressive, waving and shouting at me and my wife. He began shouting, 'it's none of your business'," he recalled.
The couple ignored the man who was later identified by the girl as her pimp, and whom she knew only as 'Roberto. She also revealed she had encountered many other young sex slaves during her months of hell. "I would describe him as aged in his 50s, balding, small in height and wearing glasses," said her rescuer.
"We just took the girl and drove off. When we go home we organised a flight back home for her to Romania.
"It was just so upsetting to see a young girl in such a state — I've found it very hard to get over. I have a young daughter myself, I can't imagine the horrors that poor girl went through," he added.
Trafficked
Two other locations were identified by the trafficked girl with one being close to Daisy Hill hospital and another close to a Spar shop in the city.
The brothels have also been linked to similar operations in Belfast and Carrick-on-Shannon where trafficking bosses find the low rental cost of houses can be turned into prostitution rooms.
The young girl was given no money for her 'work' and would be regularly moved between brothels, with the pimp moving the females every Monday.
The Sunday World traced Roberto to a plush address in north Dublin.
"He's in that house living the high life from the money he is making by forcing all these girls into the sex trade. It's just sickening. He needs to be arrested and charged.
"We were very fortunate to able to help that girl, but there are many others who are at this moment probably in the same appalling setup, it's inhumane," he added.
A PSNI spokesperson confirmed a police investigation with a raid conducted in the Talbot Street area of Newry. When asked about the existence of the brothel the spokesperson said that the PSNI could not elaborate at this time.
"If anyone has information about illegal activity on Talbot Street, we would ask them to contact the PSNI at Ladas Drive, Belfast, or Crimestoppers on 0800 555111," said the spokesperson.
The Gardaí have also received the details of the cross-border pimp.
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