ITV's Prostitute Problem
When UK television network ITV ran a Dateline-style expose on prostitution and human traficking in Eastern Europe, reporter Chris Rogers described how he purchased a 14-year-old girl from a sex slave trader/pimp in the Romanian city of Iasi. After Rogers bought her, he took her to a women’s shelter and got her medical attention.
Then the Iasi police made a press statement claiming the 14-year-old was 25 and had been, in fact, kidnapped by Rogers. By all indications, it looks like ITV is stuck in the crossfire between anti-human trafficing NGOs and the Romanian government’s desire to whitewash the country’s problems:
An article in Romania Libera on February 8 said Rogers was “the victim yet again of the Romanian government and police who refuse to accept his claims in the face of criticism”.
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