Three men and a woman were on Sunday August 7, 2022 in police custody at Compiegne (Oise), suspected of “aggravated pimping”, after a 15-year-old girl, sequestered and forcibly prostituted according to her, managed to contact the police, learned theAFP nearby parquet.
A 15-year-old girl placed in a home
In victims, “aged 15 since July 2022, called a friend, who would have called 17 to report acts of prostitution and kidnapping”, explained prosecutor Marie-Céline Lawrysz to theAFPconfirming information from Parisian.
Originally from around Reimsthe teenager “placed in a home by a children’s judge in Châlons-en-Champagne for about two years” would have “fugue since May”according to the prosecutor.
“She says that she prostituted herself first in Paris, then wanted to escape her Parisian pimps, and was taken in by a man who took her to Amiens, where she also prostituted herself, before to arrive at Compiègne”, explained Marie-Céline Lawrysz.
“She would have been a prostitute for about three weeks in Compiègne. She says that at the beginning she was prostituting herself of her own free will, then the situation escalated, and she would have been kidnapped”, she continued, stating that the facts “remained to be clarified”.
Three men from Île-de-France and a woman from Hauts-de-France involved
The three men in question are fromEssoneof Seine-Saint-Denis and Hauts-de-Seineand known, for at least two of them, for acts of violence, drug trafficking or theft.
The fourth is from Compiègne, and suspected of having “hosted the victim in a Compiègne apartment”. To the victims “states that she was visiting customers” for passes, she said.
Everyone’s involvement “still to be determined” did she say. But in the acts of pimping on minors, “We are often faced with young girls who are in a difficult psychological or financially precarious situation. Alone, on the street, they have to be accommodated on the right and left side and quickly turn to prostitution to earn money”.
Respondents may have acted “pure opportunity”in “taking advantage of his weakness”.
Arrested on Saturday August 6, 2022 around 3:30 p.m., they could remain in police custody for 96 hours. The teenager also “denounced several other people”.
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