Women are being ‘trafficked to order’ for sex with countrymen
The trend for trafficked-to-order sex workers was just one of the features of the burgeoning Irish sex industry studied over a six year period for a report published yesterday. Researchers, Dr Eilis Ward of National University of Ireland, Galway and Dr Gillian Wylie of Trinity College Dublin, found 76 women from 20 different countries had been trafficked into Ireland to work in brothels and lap dancing clubs during that period but said the number could be far greater.
They identified 75 other women they suspected but could not prove were victims of trafficking. Only one of the women had been identified through Garda surveillance while the rest came to light when they sought help.
