This should be read over at Simons Blog.

It’s not nice reading – but the fact that young people are forced into sex industry in our country is real and we need to encourge the government to attempt to do something about it.

This quote from Simon says it all:

The reality is that tonight, one girl, Sofia who has under the guise of being ushered into this ‘better world’ over and against the oppression she experienced in her village in Albania, went through the dehumanising ‘breaking process’ where she was repeatedly and violently raped until her spirit broke making her the commodity she needed to be for her pimps in Soho as we sit here tonight. As a child brought up in the violence of Northern Ireland, I had, at a young age, the dictum ‘Do unto others as you would have done unto yourself’ drummed into me. Can I ask, if you were in one of the breaking camps in Belgrade, Nis or Tirana, and found yourself being tortured to the point when your life lost all meaning, what would you want someone to do for you? If you were in Soho tonight and had to perform sex acts against your will under the threat of death to you or your family, what would you want someone to do for you? Human-trafficking is a global trade in rape for profit. I am culpable because, as a man, I share my masculinity with the perpetrators of these crimes and the victims are crying out for someone, anyone, to do something to help them.