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AIBU to think human trafficking only happens in foreign countries and not in this country?

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Acrazybimbo · 17/06/2024 21:31

I’ve been hearing a lot about trafficking lately and always thought it only happens in foreign countries but rarely if ever in the UK as it’s never been a thing or talked about round here. I know a random thread to start but how in this country do they get away with it in this day and age with technology being how it is?

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Itsallsostressful · 17/06/2024 21:39

Of course it happens here !! Rotherham Rotchdale around 2012. As people have said nail bars etc can be a front. Trafficking doesn't have to be huge distances....town to nearby town counts.

StripeyDeckchair · 17/06/2024 21:38

Just read or listen to the news.
There are far too many horrific stories of human trafficking and what happens to those people - usually young single people, predominantly women.
Some have died in transit due to the terrible nature of the transport used.

TheCadoganArms · 17/06/2024 21:37

Where do you think all the sex workers come from? Poor girls thinking they have signed up to au pair or other jobs only to be forced into sex slavery.

SundayFundayz · 17/06/2024 21:37

It happens here. In 2020 I was involved in housing a man who had been hospitalised and was homeless. He had been working at a car wash and given accommodation in a caravan and his passport confiscated until he “paid back his debt”. His family were all in an Eastern European country. He only got away from it because his leg became so infected and was wet all the time and he ended up having to have it amputated. Luckily it was during the covid lockdown so he was housed in a hotel and eventually helped to get home, otherwise he would probably have been out on the streets with nothing.
Its very much happening under your nose.

DancingLions · 17/06/2024 21:37

Of course trafficking goes on here. It happens everywhere. I'm curious to know how you think "technology" would stop it?

Bumdrops · 17/06/2024 21:37

Huge problem
Mental health services see victims of trafficking- for their trauma

Montgomerymmoose · 17/06/2024 21:36

Nail bars , hand car washes are notorious for modern day slavery . That's 2 off the top of my head .

TomatoSandwiches · 17/06/2024 21:35

I think that's a very naive belief to have, people definitely get trafficked into and out of the UK, why would they not, corrupt people and criminals operate in every nation.

Zonder · 17/06/2024 21:35

There have been so many stories on the news in the UK over the years. Sex trade, manual labour...

Lily193 · 17/06/2024 21:35

What do you think county lines is? It's a huge problem across the whole of the UK.

OneRingToRuleThemAll · 17/06/2024 21:34

Have you ever seen a nail bar or a hand car wash?

Beautifulbythebay · 17/06/2024 21:34

I read an article about young English women being snatched from Cruise ships and sold off. Quite chilling... The Madeleine Mccann latest documentary gave some horrific insight into organised child abuse sites with catalogues of stolen dc on.

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Acrazybimbo · 17/06/2024 21:32

Any stories or experiences? I know it’s becoming more of a problem online nowadays

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