Aussie Justice: No Sex Slaves Here

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Source: Adelaide Advertiser 17aug05<br> <br>Sex slave claims dismissed<br><br>JUSTICE Minister Chris Ellison has dismissed claims that as many as 1000 foreign women are working as sex slaves in Australia.<br><br>Senator Ellison said the intelligence available just did not support the claim by a former federal police officer, Chris Payne, who says there is plenty of evidence to substantiate the figure.<br><br>"The fact is we still have around about 1000 trafficked women in the country at any given time and unless we make a serious attempt to simply rescue them, irrespective of whether they're going to give evidence or not, they're just going to stay there," Mr Payne said.<br><br>"Why can't we free the slaves, as it were?"...<br><br>Senator Ellison said that was apparently a bid to grab sensational headlines.<br><br>"It is disingenuous to simply say that there are 1000 women who have been trafficked. You need some forensic evidence to back that up," he said...<br><br>"We don't believe there is as much (sic) as 1000," he said...<br><br><br><br> <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.theadvertiser.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,16290565%255E1702,00.html">www.theadvertiser.news.co...02,00.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <br> <p></p><i></i>

[ZeroHaven]

24 January , 2005 <br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>Immigration authorities are preparing to <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2005/s1287711.htm" target="top">deport a Thai woman</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> who was brought to Australia as a sex slave, even though she helped police with information.<br>Her information wasn't enough to launch a prosecution, and her criminal justice visa was revoked.<br>...<br>KATHLEEN MALTZAHAN:<br>I know at least one woman who said to me I don't want to help the police because I'm worried about the impact on my family. Now, the police can't protect families overseas, and when women start hearing that even if you go forward to the police you're still going to be deported, it really undercuts women's willingness to testify.<br>...<br>But in Italy, women still get long-term support, Italian classes, counselling, all that sort of stuff and they're not forced to go home.</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a239/ZeroHaven/tinhat.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--></p><i></i>

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Here is a story about sex slave trafficking in the US:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/25/magazine/25SEXTRAFFIC.html?ei=5007&en=43dbe6ef76e45af8&ex=1390366800&partner=USERLAND&pagewanted=print&position=">www.nytimes.com/2004/01/2...&position=</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Notice also all the painstaking hoops the editors had to go thru in the "corrections" at the end of the article due to challenges to its veracity such as this (worth a read to see that the original article got somebody upset):<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://slate.msn.com/id/2120331/">slate.msn.com/id/2120331/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Note that the critique wants to use numbers from NYT, the State department (whose numbers are actually pretty upsetting on their own merits) and, yes, the Voice of America...that epitome of objective journalism.<br><br>Note also how the "false memory" argument has to be acknowledged in the original argument. Now, evidently you don't have to be hypnotized by evil therapists to have false memories, you simply have to be DID (called MPD in the corrections of the article.) <br><br>One of the things I've always thought was a very BAD argument against RA type "sacrifices" was the one that says, if so many people went missing, we'd know it.<br><br>Well, first off...no you wouldn't. I posted elsewhere a recent article that shows the Justice Department has absolutely NO IDEA how many kids go missing each year, despite very clear guidelines for local law enforcement to immediately report such cases. This has been going on since the law was passed in 1990. <br><br>Add to that the number of people brought into the country illegally...and certainly you have an ample supply of victims for all kinds of illegal activities. And since they are illegal AND since many in the power structure probably make use of their services...you can definitely assume the official numbers are low.<br><br> <p></p><i></i>