TATOO...The barcode tattoo on the sex slave's wrist
SPANISH police have freed a sex slave who had been beaten, tied, and had a bar code tattooed on her wrist.
The bar code tattoo on the wrist of the 19-year-old girl - the sign of ownership - also showed that she owed 2,000 (RM8,157) Euros to her pimp bosses.
Police investigations showed that she had also been whipped, chained to a radiator and had her hair and eyebrows shaved off by the pimps.
Police have so far arrested 22 members of the prostitution ring and seized guns and ammunition besides 140,000 Euros (RM570,456) hidden in a false ceiling, a large amount of gold jewelery and five luxury cars.
According to news reports, all those arrested were of Romanian nationality.
Iancu T, one of the suspected leaders of the ring, allegedly made false promises of legitimate work to women to lure them but forced them into prostitution in various clubs in Madrid.
According to CNN, Iancu called his prostitutes 'packages', 'suitcases' and 'bicycles'.
Sex trafficking is a multi-billion dollar industry in Spain. While pimping is outlawed, prostitution itself is unregulated.
Most of the prostitutes in the country are poor immigrants from Africa, Eastern Europe and South America. (Agencies)
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