Truemors
Yes...This Happens in YOUR Town, Too!
[q url="http://www.kansas.com/news/story/227381.html"]Oklahoma City police arrested two Wichita men suspected of kidnapping a 22-year-old woman, taking her to Oklahoma and forcing her to have sex for money.
She told police they locked her in a hotel bathroom between assaults.
Experts say that while such cases of forced prostitution appear to be growing more common, they acknowledge victims may be reporting the crime more often. "We know we have a serious problem with human trafficking, international human trafficking as well," Michael Birzer, director of the school of community affairs at Wichita State University, said Tuesday.
A Wichita man called Oklahoma City police Friday and said his daughter was in danger, police said. The man said his daughter had called from a hotel room and told him "that she was being held against her will at that location," according to a police report.
Police went to the hotel and found the woman with the men. She told an officer that the men "had brought her to Oklahoma City for the prospect of getting a legitimate job and making some money." After arriving in Oklahoma City on Nov. 6, they took her to South Robinson Avenue -- a hot spot for prostitution in the city --"where they told her she had to work as a prostitute to get them some money," the report said.
When she said she didn't want to, the men threatened to beat her. She was in fear for her life and was afraid to leave, she told police.
One of the men had outstanding Oklahoma County, Okla., warrants, police said. Officers booked the men -- ages 28 and 43 -- into jail. Each man is being held on suspicion of pandering and kidnapping, said Master Sgt. Gary Knight, a spokesman for Oklahoma City police.
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