Two men were arrested in Valladolid for allegedly prostituted women in a hostess club in this province, where one of the victims was released. There, they had to prostitute themselves seven days a week, from five in the afternoon to four in the morning, under video surveillance and even sick, and with dietary restrictions if they broke the rules.
In a press release, the National Police specified this Friday that the two men were arrested as suspected perpetrators of crimes of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of sexual exploitation and crimes against workers’ rights. Women could not refuse any customers, they had to wear sexy clothes to work and attract customers to the room and if they did not respect the hours or left the club during working hours they were fined.
The investigation began last March, when National Police agents detected and identified two victims of sexual exploitation. One of the victims, of South American origin, reported that She was captured and tricked by her exploiters in a European Union country where he lived with his youngest daughter, thanks to the false promise of a job as a kitchen assistant in a restaurant in the province of Valladolid.
One of the exploiters went to look for her in the country where she lived. take her to the “restaurant”even though the real purpose of her trip was to be exploited and forced into prostitution at a hostess club. The same sources specified that the victims were in a situation of need and vulnerability, lacked economic resources and were therefore seduced by the false promise of employment, with the aim of being able to prosper in Spain.
At the end of the trip, her exploiters informed her that this place was not a restaurant but a club where she would have to practice prostitution under the conditions imposed by the pimps. The rates they had to charge for prostitution services were also set by the pimps, with absolute control over women in the clubthanks to a video surveillance system that they monitored from their cell phones.
In addition, the women were informed of what they would have to say if stopped by the police. When one of the victims can no longer stand the situation and tries to leave the club, “She was threatened and forced by her pimps to continue to accept the conditions imposed on her, such as denouncing her to be deported to her country and taking away her youngest daughter”detailed the same sources.
The identified female victims were offered and received all the services and resources available for specialist care and protectionto guarantee your protection and security. The detainees were taken into custody, who ordered their release with charges.
