Police rescue 13 victims of prostitution ring
By Li Qian |
May 26, 2012, Saturday
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THIRTEEN girls and young women between the ages of 14 and 20 who were lured or forced into prostitution in several provinces have been rescued by police in Chongqing in southwest China.
Police also apprehended 12 suspects, most of them related to each other or their fellow villagers, who were found to have made more than 500,000 yuan (US$78,950) from over 150 cases of forced prostitution.
The underground ring was tightly organized with a clear distribution of work and a complete network stretching over the provinces including Sichuan, Guizhou, Henan and Anhui, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
A 16-year-old girl surnamed Guo, a native of Chongqing, was able to escape and tell police her story in the Yubei District of Chongqing on March 27. That blew the lid off the underground prostitution ring.
She said a man surnamed Jiang took her from Shenzhen, where she was seeking a job, to Chongqing after promising sightseeing and high-salary jobs.
"An ad posted in a Shenzhen labor center read: 'Nannies are needed in Chongqing and Sichuan. Tens of thousands of yuan are paid every month. Flights are free.' I was in bad need of money and then contacted Jiang," Guo said.,
To win Guo's trust, Jiang led Guo to visit his company in a local high-end residential complex and showed her a complete set of licenses and certificates. Guo was convinced and flew to Chongqing, where her nightmare began, Xinhua said.
A couple bought the girl, confiscated her identification card and money, and locked her in a rental house. They forced her to sign a contract to engage in prostitution and banned her from "making boyfriends and staying out overnight."
A teenaged girl might be priced between 2,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan, and one ring member managed one to four girls, Xinhua cited police as saying.
To gain more money from clients, girls were forced to disguise themselves as poor students, and a deal could even bring in tens of thousands of yuan.
According to police, more and more people began trapping young women by impersonating rich young men or falsely offering good salaries. Some even lured teens to shoot nude photos or got them addicted to drugs to better control them, authorities said.
Police also apprehended 12 suspects, most of them related to each other or their fellow villagers, who were found to have made more than 500,000 yuan (US$78,950) from over 150 cases of forced prostitution.
The underground ring was tightly organized with a clear distribution of work and a complete network stretching over the provinces including Sichuan, Guizhou, Henan and Anhui, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
A 16-year-old girl surnamed Guo, a native of Chongqing, was able to escape and tell police her story in the Yubei District of Chongqing on March 27. That blew the lid off the underground prostitution ring.
She said a man surnamed Jiang took her from Shenzhen, where she was seeking a job, to Chongqing after promising sightseeing and high-salary jobs.
"An ad posted in a Shenzhen labor center read: 'Nannies are needed in Chongqing and Sichuan. Tens of thousands of yuan are paid every month. Flights are free.' I was in bad need of money and then contacted Jiang," Guo said.,
To win Guo's trust, Jiang led Guo to visit his company in a local high-end residential complex and showed her a complete set of licenses and certificates. Guo was convinced and flew to Chongqing, where her nightmare began, Xinhua said.
A couple bought the girl, confiscated her identification card and money, and locked her in a rental house. They forced her to sign a contract to engage in prostitution and banned her from "making boyfriends and staying out overnight."
A teenaged girl might be priced between 2,000 yuan and 10,000 yuan, and one ring member managed one to four girls, Xinhua cited police as saying.
To gain more money from clients, girls were forced to disguise themselves as poor students, and a deal could even bring in tens of thousands of yuan.
According to police, more and more people began trapping young women by impersonating rich young men or falsely offering good salaries. Some even lured teens to shoot nude photos or got them addicted to drugs to better control them, authorities said.
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