SPAIN WOMENS ISSUES
An international trafficking network was broken up and 15 people arrested for allegedly trafficking dozens of women from the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Columbia, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria to Spain, forcing them into prostitution.
The network had charged the women US$1,300 for recruitment and transportation fees. \("Spanish Prostitution Ring Busted," Associated Press, 18 April 1998)
The Venezuelan Consulate receives requests for emergency passports and airfare back home from women who have escaped from brothels.
(Venezuela's Consulate in Madrid, "Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)
Women, aged 18-24, from Venezuela are being trafficked under false pretenses for prostitution in highway massage parlors and similar fronts for brothels in Spain.
The trafficker places promising advertisements in the newspaper, then arranges for the woman to be met at the airport; where her passport and identity papers are taken away.
(Venezuela's Consulate in Madrid, "Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)........
Trafficked Venezuelan women have to service a man every 20 minutes for US$ 33-50/hour; money they never see.
("Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)
20% of Spaniard men have purchased prostituted women at least once.
(El Mundo, "Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venzuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)
Organized crime rings make US$ 666 per prostituted woman per day.
(Foreign Alien Brigade Chief Inspector Jose Moreno, "Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)
The Basque guerrilla group ETA has been linked to drug trafficking, prostitution and money laundering to finance its operations.
(Interior Ministry, "Spain probes ETA links to drugs, prostitution," Reuters, 4 August 1997)
10 people, including a school headmaster, teachers, a doctor and owners of some apartments used for child prostitution, were arrested in a prostitution ring which abused at least 40 children, aged 5 to 14 in the Catalan district in Spain.
("Child prostitution ring uncovered in Barcelona," Reuters, 29 July 1997)
Sixteen men were found guilty of abusing thirty boys, ages 14-17, in a child prostitution ring that was broken-up in 1996.
In the Seville homosexual nightclub, the boys were given money, clothing and vacations for sex and offered as prizes for the night to those who won bingo games.
27 others, including a former juvenile court judge, a singer and a television presenter, were acquitted
("Spanish Celebrities Absolved," Associated Press, 19 March 1998) & ("Sixteen convicted in Spanish gay child abuse cases," Reuters, 19 March 1998)
October 1996, Spanish police broke up a ring distributing child pornography on the Internet.
Two men who were the ringleaders were arrested in Barcelona.
(BBC, 8 Nov 1997)
Venzuelan women are in demand by traffickers from Spain because they look similar to Spaniards from the Canary Islands, who don't need visas, and are less likely to be detected by Spanish police.
("Venezuelan Sex-Slaves Sold in Trade-Offs to Spanish Wayside Brothels," Patrick J. O'Donoghue, Vheadline-Venezuela's Internet News, 18 November 1997)
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