Tag: prostitution
Court in Spain hands down 160-year sentence to man found guilty of killing sex workers with highly pure cocaine
A COURT in Valencia on Thursday handed down a sentence of nearly 160 years to a man who was found guilty of killing three...
LONG READ: Will Spain’s sex industry simply go underground as new anti-prostitution laws come into force?
FORTY kilometres outside Madrid, figures of dancing girls adorning the front of the seedy dark brick Olimpo are designed to lure punters off the...
Spain makes controversial step towards ban on prostitution
THE Spanish parliament has voted to draw up wide reaching legislation in a bid to crackdown on prostituion.
The controversial move is targeted at those...
Parents pimp out underage daughter for €100 to have sex with man, 78, in public park in Spain’s Valencia...
A 78-year-old man has been arrested for having sex with a underage girl in a Castellon public park in the Valencian Community.
The girl's parents...
Traffickers lured women to Spain with bogus job offers but forced them into prostitution at Valencia area flats
A gang that brought over women from Columbia with promises of legal jobs in Spain, but used them instead as prostitutes, has been brought...
Police in Spain bring down Chinese prostitution network that pocketed €5 million
A Bilbao-based Chinese prostitution gang that banked an estimated €5 million has been smashed by the Policia Nacional.
63 people have been arrested- 61 of...
Anonymous tip-off brings down Murcia sex exploiters who abused 19 women that came to Spain
AN anonymous e-mail to a Policia Nacional anti-human trafficking website has led to the bringing down of a major Murcia criminal gang.
Police have arrested...
Fugitive human trafficking boss arrested on Spain’s Costa Blanca and will be extradited to France
A fugitive wanted by French authorities for being a key member of a human trafficking gang has been arrested in Alicante.
The 36-year-old Paraguayan man...
Two Swedish men face 5 years jail in Mallorca for robbing and burning brothel
TWO Swedes who robbed and set fire to a brothel in Palma are facing five years in jail.
The events took place in 2019, when...
Police in Valencia area of Spain rescue Nigerian woman forced into prostitution by voodoo rites
TWO people have been arrested in Valencia Province for human trafficking after Nigerian women were tricked by voodoo rites into becoming sex slaves.
A victim...
Police rescue woman forced into prostitution who phoned them from Valencia-bound coach in Spain
POLICE boarded a coach that arrived at Valencia bus station from Sevilla to rescue a victim of human trafficking.
A Columbian man, 33, has been...
EXPLAINER: The sex industry in Spain and why PM Pedro Sanchez wants to ban prostitution
IT MAY be the oldest profession in the world, but Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez pledged on Sunday to criminalise prostitution in Spain insisting the...
Police arrest 17 involved in underage prostitution ring targeting children in care in Spain’s Mallorca
POLICE in Mallorca have arrested 17 people involved in an underage prostitution ring that ‘recruited’ troubled girls, many of whom were in care at...
Violent serial abuser kidnapped girlfriend and forced her into prostitution in Costa Blanca area of Spain
A serial abuser has been arrested for kidnapping and forcing his partner to become a prostitute.
The 38-year-old man had 69 police files on him,...
Round in circles: Residents demand action after council ‘fails for five years’ to tackle prostitution at busy Costa del...
LOCALS are demanding action over a series of prostitutes that ply their trade near a children’s playground on the Costa del Sol.
Despite complaining for...
‘Stop soliciting on our streets’: Why residents in Spain are right to speak out
ONE survey in 2008 found that 78% of Spanish people consider prostitution an inevitability in modern society. Nearly 15 years later, the debate for...
Sex work and the city: Residents on Spain’s Costa del Sol rally to tackle concerns over prostitution
SEX WORKERS are continuing to ply their trade from the Abbeygate roundabout on the A7 despite the threat posed by the coronavirus pandemic, an...
Police officer in Spain’s Mallorca accused of paying 15-year-old girl for sex
The Guardia Civil officer, who is described as being 'middle-aged', has been charged with the corruption of a minor
VIDEO: Human trafficking gang that forced victims into prostitution is busted during dawn raids in south-east Spain and Romania
A CRIMINAL GANG that profited from human trafficking forced their victims into prostitution on the streets of Girona have been arrested.
The suspects belonged to...
Man arrested after forcing wife into prostitution in Spain’s Mallorca
The man is accused of threatening his wife in order for her to prostitute herself
IN PICS: Woman arrested for allegedly running sex abuse ring involving girls aged 13 in Spain’s Almeria
FIVE children have been freed from a prostitution network that had been selling them for sex since 2019.
Sources in Guardia Civil’s Operation Terciaria revealed...
Bogus Interpol officer threatened women if they did not meet him in woodland tourist spot on Spain’s Costa Blanca
AN Alicante man pretended to be an Interpol officer in an elaborate ruse to threaten women if they refused to meet him.
Meetings were arranged...
Missing teenage prostitute found dead in irrigation ditch near Valencia
THE worst hypothesis finally came true regarding Florina Gogos, the 19-year-old girl who worked as a prostitute in the Valencia area and who went...
Unlicensed brothel to close following complaints on Spain’s Costa Blanca
ORIHUELA Council is fast-tracking the forced closure of a notorious unlicensed brothel following a slew of complaints.
Although officially licensed as a hostel, Policia Nacional...
WATCH: Brothels raided as human trafficking ring busted in Spain’s Costa Blanca
A CRIMINAL gang of ten dedicated to trafficking women for sexual exploitation and drug dealing has been arrested in Alicante.
The nine victims being held...
Policia Nacional bust human trafficking ring that smuggled sex slaves into Murcia’s Cartagena during Spain’s coronavirus lockdown
POLICIA Nacional have rescued five women while dismantling a 15-strong human trafficking gang in the Murcia town of Cartagena
The criminals also smuggled drugs into...
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