HUMAN TRAFFICKING: Lack of Irish convictions masks deadly truth of trafficking

THE uninitiated would be forgiven for thinking that the number of detections by authorities of human trafficking or aggravated pimping in Ireland were significant.

Three years ago Justice Minister Brian Lenihan said there was “no evidence of a significant human trafficking problem in Ireland”.

The absence in the statute books of any discernible legislation referring to the crime of human trafficking, at that point, only served to compound the apathy.