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by Ivan CairoPARAMARIBO – Surinamese police recently rescued three underage Guyanese girls who were allegedly being exploited in a brothel in the hinterlands,Houston Rockets Jerseys China, authorities here confirmed.During a raid in Cabanafo by the Anti-Terror Squad,Los Angeles Kings Jerseys China, police and military officers,Wholesale Cincinnati Reds Jerseys, the girls were rescued while the Guyanese owner of the brothel,Wholesale Authentic NFL Jerseys, her husband and a bodyguard were arrested. The suspects are being charged with being members of criminal organization,Wholesale China NFL Jerseys, human smuggling and human trafficking.The girls told detectives that under false pretense they travelled to Suriname after they were promised work in a shop. Instead they were forced into prostitution in a brothel in Cabanafo in the Lawa region,Wholesale Los Angeles Kings Jerseys, a gold field close to the border with French-Guiana.“The girls were forced into prostitution. If they refused they were beaten and all the money they received from customers were seized by the brothel owner”,Wholesale NHL Jerseys, police spokesman Humphrey Naarden told local media. The victim allegedly crossed the Suriname-Guyana border illegally.Meanwhile the authorities are still looking for two other teenage Guyanese girls who at the time officers raided the brothel were not present.According to Naarden,Wholesale Seattle Seahawks Jerseys, one of the victims is a 15-year-old girl whose parents filed a missing report with the Guyana police. Through their own efforts the parents received information that their daughter had been spotted in Cabanafo in the Suriname interior. This information was relayed to the office of the Prosecutor General in Suriname. The man subsequently ordered an investigation into the matter.The Trafficking in Persons Unit of the Suriname Police Force is continuing investigations. |
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