HERE'S the article
"Association of Chief Police Officers guidelines clearly state that working with the media on operations can assist in the prevention and detection of crime."
Working with the media meant publishing the full names, photos and dates of birth of 6 women working in Newham as prostitutes, but also childminders, cleaners etc, in the News of the World. The women were baffled, the NHS were too - what are they doing??
These women claim that they don't use drugs and are always sober when they're working - I'm a sceptic, but my drug of choice while being raped in a socially acceptable way would be Rohypnol, but this is what they claimed, and they’ve no previous convictions, so it’s as believable as anything else.
So what possessed the police to ‘out’ them as criminals? Who allowed this blatant misogyny to occur?!
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According to mother, there was a piece on Radio 4 a while ago looking at the effect of prostitution in cities due to hold the Olympics – apparently the number rises dramatically with home and international working women and traffickers. The reason for this is, obviously, because men “need” servicing as they can be away from home for at least two weeks. You have to sympathise. Women’s choice, is it? I don’t agree. Men have the choice, and women are under personal extreme pressure, or have been trafficked so have no choice at all.
I get incensed by the ‘choice’ argument. It was barely my choice to have a baby – it is any woman’s actual choice? I’m not saying there is rife coercion – but many women are made to feel freakish if they don’t have kids, I know I would have been!
What reason did they give for outing them?!
ReplyDeleteThis kind of thing makes me want the men arrested.
I have been trying to find this out - I can't even find the photos on News of the World, maybe they've been pulled. Struggling to find much, actually..!
ReplyDeleteMoms just said: why don't we have arch feminists take over for a while - yes dear, you can go to the pub - I'll just get your chastity belt. It's impossible to imagine, yet it's been happening to women for centuries.
It's true about the massive increase in prostitution that goes hand in hand with the olympic games! Obviously it was great that the olympic games came to London and have created so many jobs. So now the builders who have been shipped in from Europe are creating work for local prostitutes. Wicked. I'm really pissed off about this though, it's a pointless exercise that will only harm an already vulnerable group of women. Grrr.
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