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Prostitution networks busted in Southern Suburbs, Byblos and Tripoli
16-11-2016
In their intensified crackdown on human trafficking and prostitution networks across Lebanon, the General Directorate of Internal Security arrested a woman (Lebanese, 1963) resident of the Southern Suburb of Burj Al-Barajneh for forcing her two Syrian daughters, (31 and 17 years) into prostitution and seducing men for money! After listening to the two girls in the presence of a juvenile delegate, they confirmed what was attributed to their mother. They disclosed that she has forcedly taken them from their father in Syria and allured them to come to Lebanon and accompany her to night clubs where they enticed men. The two sisters were handed over to a civil society association to receive the proper care. In a related development, the Judiciary Police Anti-Trafficking Bureau on November 8 busted inside a compound in Byblos north east of the capital a sex predator (Syrian woman, 1967) known as ‘Mama Jiji’ among young girls barely out of their teens working for her, in addition to arresting her assistant (Syrian man, 1972) and two girls under 20 years. A GS squad also clamped down on a number of suspicious places in Tripoli’s Zahrieh neighborhood and busted a ring make up of 19 women from Bangladeshi and Ethiopian nationalities. Furthermore, a woman migrant domestic worker died in hospital yesterday after being severely burned on Sunday at the home of her employer in the Keserwan town of Daraya. Investigation by the police station of Shhim in the Shouf area has revealed that the Bangladeshi worker caught fire by accident while preparing coffee and was admitted to Sibine state-run hospital where she was treated but eventually succumbed to her wounds. (Al Mustaqbal, Al Diyar, L’Orient Le Jour, As Safir, November 10, 15, 16, 2016)
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