In the lates report from the APPG on prostitution-where they claim to find “industrial scale” sexual exploitation in ‘pop-up’ brothels- a vist to a brothel in Cambridge is described:
In 2018 a representative of the inquiry accompanied police on a safeguarding visit to a brothel in Cambridgeshire. The brothel was identified via an online advertising profile of a Romanian woman recently added to the prostitution procurement website, Adultwork.
During the visit, there were immediately multiple indicators of organisation, which included the following:
ɋ There were three young Romanian women found in the brothel, but none of them matched the image of the woman on the Adultwork profile.
ɋ Police had visited the same flat 10 days earlier, when they had found three different Romanian women present in the flat for the purpose of prostitution.
ɋ The phone number that was advertised on the Adultwork profile page did not correspond to any of the phones in the flat. The advertised phone number was being managed by someone external to the flat.
ɋ When asked a series of questions by police about the organisation and operation of the brothel, including how they had each met, the women provided contradictory and changing information.
ɋ The women initially said that they managed their own online profiles on Adultwork. However, when asked to demonstrate this, it became apparent that none of the women could access their profiles.
None of the women in the brothel disclosed information concerning the involvement of an organised crime group and declined help or assistance from the police. They were provided with emergency contact information and details of local support services. The brothel, and the third party organisers subsequently identified in connection with it, are now part of an ongoing police investigation.
Anyone have any Intel about this-I know that Cambridge police have made over one hundred visits to brothels -mostly they hand out goody bags of condoms and lube and give out contact details for rescue sites for trafficked women and go on their merry way.
