ANNEX 'E' page 2
Generally
The victims are obtained in various ways. In the more brutal
cases, they have been literally snatched off the streets. tre gangs seek out attractive young females with limited intelligence and with few family ties. Young girls who have run away from home are
prime targets. Victims are quickly raped and in some cases gang- raped'. This practice is referred to as 'sealing' or 'stamping their property. The victims subsequently, through a mixture of fear, shock and shame are reduced to a state where they are mentally and physically incapable of resisting the orders of the gang. Newly 'stamped" or
*sealed' victims are then 'sold' to pre-arranged buyers. The sale can take place within twenty-four hours of the victim falling into the hands of the gang.
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Other methods involve the use of gang members to cajole selected young females into permitting themselves, albeit reluctantly, to be used for prostitution. In such cases selected victims are lured into close liaison with a member or members of the gang. The relationship is quickly made an intimate one and at an appropriate time the victim is contronted with a deliberately devised situation where her 'boyfriend' finds himself in need of help to pay off heavy and pressing debts, usually said to be connected with Triad-backed gambling or Triad loan- sharking operations. In some cases the ploy is backed by 'other members of the gang posing as pressing creditors. The young victim is then cajoled into -prostitution to earn money to enable the boyfriend to pay off his debts. When she agrees, she is traded to a call-girl centre
in similar fashion to the victims of direct coercion. The 'boyfriend' quickly disappears with his profit, leaving the victim to repay the purchase price to the call-girl centre by way of her income from prostitution.
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In most cases the conditions of sale include the 'seller' guaranteeing to the 'buyer' the control of the victim. Freshly abducted but unwilling young victims are initially physically escorted to and from all prostitution assignments by members of the 'selling' gang. Gradually 'security' is tapered off, normally after a week or so, with the girl entertaining up to 10 to 24 different customers a day. The responsibility for the security of the girl then passes to the buyer with the call- girl centres employing their own gangs of thugs for this purpose.
The repayment of the 'purchase' prices is handled in the following manner. Of every $100 the victim earns from prostitution, $40 is normally taken by the party responsible for finding the customer, i.e. the appartment house keeper etc. The remaining $60 is taken by the call-girl centre: of this sm $30 is held as direct income by the centre operator and the other $30 is one bad to the wourg vintim. must not only repay the whole phase mice by instalments but also
The contribute her day-to-day living expences, food and lodging etc. process of repayment is consequently a timely one, thus ensuring the call- girl centres of the continuing services of young prostitutes over prolonged periods of solid money-maring time,
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