Raids....

[Prickly]

I get home in the wee hours, check the news online and read that "PSNI and Gardai raid 140 brothels."

So quick as I can I hop over here and - there's nothing! Everythings normal, (as it gets around here.) Not a single post. no huge drop in advertisements. Zilch!

Did it not happen?

Or is there a whole other sub-culture out there completely aside from this little community?

Here's one of many articles;
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...316915754.html

Strange............

[LaBelleThatcher]

Only 140 raids to arrest 3 people?

WOW!!

Talk about optimising the use of resources!!!

I don't think I want to know what would induce anyone to buy or sell sex in a manner that requires "dawn raids".

I thought Ruhama were very quiet yesterday...now they will spend the day partying, celebrating the hardship of all the women who have lost their livelihood because of those raids...after all, isn't that what the nasty, spoiled, liittle bitches desperately want to do to us all?

[69patrick69]

http://www.donegaldaily.com/2012/05/...-sex-industry/

[Violette]

Only 140 raids to arrest 3 people?

WOW!!

Talk about optimising the use of resources!!!

I don't think I want to know what would induce anyone to buy or sell sex in a manner that requires "dawn raids".

I thought Ruhama were very quiet yesterday...now they will spend the day partying, celebrating the hardship of all the women who have lost their livelihood because of those raids...after all, isn't that what the nasty, spoiled, liittle bitches desperately want to do to us all?

I wonder how Ruhama will spin those figures? The figures aren't supporting their theory that most escorts are trafficked.

[Lucy Chambers]

I wonder how Ruhama will spin those figures? Of course they will forget to mention that 137 were independent ladies and men working.

It isnt even rescued IMO. I read something in the Times that said three in custody. So make that 137 plus 3 that maybe didnt have the right papers.

[ChunkyJoe]

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I get home in the wee hours, check the news online and read that "PSNI and Gardai raid 140 brothels."

So quick as I can I hop over here and - there's nothing! Everythings normal, (as it gets around here.) Not a single post. no huge drop in advertisements. Zilch!

Did it not happen?

Or is there a whole other sub-culture out there completely aside from this little community?

Here's one of many articles;
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...316915754.html

Strange............

Raids did happen yesterday in several places around the country. As you saw very little came of it. Hence nothing to report. Business as usual boys and girls

[LaBelleThatcher]

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Raids did happen yesterday in several places around the country. As you saw very little came of it. Hence nothing to report. Business as usual boys and girls

Reading more, I see that, 370 Officers were deployed in 140 raids, both sides of the border. As a result three people have been arrested here, 5 in the north and "three suspected victims of trafficking" have been "rescued" in the north.

So I guess that figure or 97%, as the proportion of sex workers who are trafficked and/or coerced, that gets thrown around with such conviction must have been the tiniest, smidgeon overestimated?

[doodlebug]

48 officers per arrest, pretty good figures, LOL. i suspect that phone numbers may be of interest as well as proceeds from the industry. Will be interesting to see what comes next. I notice in one report that members of organisations that assist women trafficked were involved, good to know!!!

[kazgar]

http://www.irishexaminer.com/breakin...ds-553428.html

3 arrested in the irish times, 8 according to the examiner

[carolinemc]

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0530/eig...operation.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...316915754.html