City ‘gateway for traffickers’ as foreigners forced into prostitution

MORE than 200 prostitutes are working in Cork and around 90% of them are foreign, according to an organisation that wants to protect women who are trafficked into the city from Eastern Europe.

Mary Crilly, director of the Cork Sexual Violence Centre, said the city is known as a gateway for traffickers, adding that her organisation had come across women working on the streets who have been trafficked.

She also believes that some of the sex industry’s foreign workers are minors.