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Outrage as TV investigation highlights sex trafficking rise in Ireland

RTE’s Prime Time show has exposed the chilling reality for hundreds of women

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PATRICK COUNIHAN,
IrishCentral Staff Writer
Published Thursday, February 9, 2012, 7:50 AM
Updated Thursday, February 9, 2012, 10:42 AM

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Irish Senators have admitted their shock and outrage at new findings on the sex industry in Ireland
Irish Senators have admitted their shock and outrage at new findings on the sex industry in Ireland
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Irish Senators have admitted their shock and outrage at new findings on the sex industry in Ireland and the trafficking of young girls to work in the illicit trade.

There are increasing calls to criminalize men who visit prostitutes and not to pursue the women only.

The upper house of the Irish parliament has backed proposed new legislation from Justice Minister Alan Shatter after a state TV documentary outlined the growing problem.

RTE’s Prime Time show has exposed the chilling reality for hundreds of women who are brought to Ireland and moved from town to town on a regular basis.

Senators then debated how the programme outed the pimps who are bullying the women, many of them young foreign girls, and criminalising them.

Independent Senator Katherine Zapone said: “There is a very clear gender dimension to this problem.

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“What happened in the education of men that they think they can buy the bodies of women to have their needs met? What happened to our men that they find this acceptable?”

Zapone told the Senate that viewers were left with profound questions as to how an investigative team could reveal such activity over a six-month period, with this same activity presumably known to the police.

She added: “There is an inescapable interweaving of trafficking with prostitution, and this exploitation must be addressed. We need legislation that can interrupt this activity, which is an absolute infringement of human rights.

“A consultation paper on trafficking and prostitution is due to be made available shortly by Minister for Justice Alan Shatter. This consultation needs to begin now.”

Fellow Independent Senator Ronan Mullen agreed. “I regard as spurious claims that criminalising those who purchased sex made the situation worse for certain persons engaged in prostitution,” he stated.

“We need to make the lives of people who would purchase the bodies of other people much more complicated. We need to target and to hassle them.”
 

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merefalow | Feb 12, 2012, 05:21 PM EST
deport them and their pimps.we have plenty of home grown,.legalise prostitution,tax it,health checks etc.only girls who want to do it,do it,no pimps,they keep what they earn,no drugs,clean regulated safe,its not going to go away,i think they do a service to society by relieving men and possibly prevent a lot of innocent women and girls from being raped or molested.CAN CATHOLIC IRELAND,ACCEPT a solution,or will you just bury it and pretend it doesn't exist,like child abuse.

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GeorgeDillon | Feb 10, 2012, 12:45 PM EST
Curdexter, you're an utter fool. Have you not got it into that thick head of yours that I am opposed to Mass Immigration to Ireland? How many more posts do I have to write attacking Mass Immigration before you get it? It's YOU who supports the traffickers, you racist moron.

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ciaradexy | Feb 10, 2012, 11:24 AM EST
George, you really are thick! These women are trafficked here but thats obviously ok with you. Its the ones who are here legally that you seem to have the problem with.

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GeorgeDillon | Feb 10, 2012, 08:29 AM EST
I guess these are the "highly skilled foreign workers" that clowns like curpeter and curdexter tell us Ireland needs to import!

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angrypaddy | Feb 10, 2012, 01:31 AM EST
I dont know what all the fuss is about,every body knows that all you have to do to get a blow job from a fifteen year old is give 10e to one of your daughters friends its safe and shur it dosent do them any harm

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WoundedKnee | Feb 09, 2012, 02:10 PM EST
The problem is that most of these hookers are Eastern Europeans, Africans etc. The pro-Immigration pressure groups want them to be given Irish citizenship, because they are "victims". Madness. They should be deported.

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