Mon 07 May 2007

Israeli man convicted of human trafficking

A court in Haifa, Israel has sentenced a brothel owner in the city to five years in jail for selling a woman to a brothel in Acre. He sold her in return for part of the profits the brothel made from her exploitation. He later sold two more women to the brothel for US$10,000. Noam Reizin, 50, from Haifa will also have to pay compensation to one of the women who filed a complaint against him. The women were held against their will and forced to have sex with 25 men a day. Although the maximum sentence for human trafficking in Israel is 16 years, the average sentence is only 3 years. This is not enough to deter traffickers, when there are such large profits to be made.
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http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/856208.html

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