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“GIRLS in their early teens are being trafficked to Northern Ireland and forced into prostitution and servitude right under our noses.”

That was the stark admission, not of an anti-prostitution campaigner or women’s rights activist, but of the assistant chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and it was made during a Stormont Public Accounts Committee meeting last month.

Drew Harris confirmed his officers had recently rescued a young orphaned girl who was trafficked there through four different countries and that she was one of 20 people who was rescued directly by the PSNI since 2006.