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Sex for rent: The seedy underbelly of NZ housing affordability crisis

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As New Zealand house prices and rents continue to skyrocket, those in financially vulnerable situations are turning to prostitution.

New Zealand Union of Students’ Associations national president Rory McCourt said students facing financial hardship often turned to sex work in order to cover living costs.

International students were at the greatest risk, McCourt said.

And with rents in New Zealand up $25 a week over the year to April advertisements offering “free rent for services” are springing up across mainstream house-sharing sites.

An ad posted on Craigslist in Auckland offers a free bedroom in the suburb of Glen Eden in exchange for “sexual favours.”

Full story: Published 20 May 2015

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/home-property/68699320/sex-for-rent-the-seedy-underbelly-of-nz-housing-affordability-crisis

Text to high-flier: ‘I’ve got a girl to sell’

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A 17-year-old girl acted as a “pimp” for a wealthy Auckland businessman – finding and enticing girls as young as 15 to have sex with him in return for drugs and cash, prosecutors say.

The pair allegedly preyed on methamphetamine-addicted teenagers, the 17-year-old sourcing the girls and delivering them to the man’s multimillion-dollar inner-Auckland property.

The man, 56, and the girl, now aged 20, are on trial in the Auckland District Court over events alleged to have taken place from October 2010 to December 2011.

The Crown says as well as inducing 15-year-old girls to provide “commercial sexual services” in return for methamphetamine, the pair conspired to drug one of the teenagers with the date-rape drug GHB.

A text from the girl read: “She [the alleged victim] is very hard for me to tolerate lol. Let’s spike her please.” [Read more…]

Name suppression for Auckland businessman and “pimp” on trial for sex exploitation

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The “wealthy Auckland businessman” faces 23 charges including disabling or stupefying, supplying Class A and Class B drugs, indecent assault, sexual violation, abduction, inducing or compelling a person to provide commercial sexual services and four counts of receiving commercial sexual services from a person under 18 years old. [Read more…]

Auckland business man & “pimp” charged for sex exploitation

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A Sunday Star Times Report published today was headlined “Text to high-flier” The subheading was the 17-year old pimp’s text message to the “wealthy Auckland businessman” which read– “I’ve got a girl to sell”

Summary: The 17-year-old girl acted as a “pimp” for the businessman – finding and enticing girls as young as 15 to have sex with him in return for drugs and cash, prosecutors say. The man in his late 50’s and the pimp, now aged 20, are on trial in the Auckland District Court. The Crown says as well as inducing 15-year-old girls to provide “commercial sexual services” in return for methamphetamine, the pair conspired to drug one of the teenagers with the date-rape drug GHB. Both accused have name suppression.

For full story by Ian Steward see:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/crime/10606894/Text-to-high-flier-I-ve-got-a-girl-to-sell [Read more…]

Girls4U escort agency – Two arrested

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Girls4U escort agency – two arrested in police probe:  “… arrested on suspicion of conspiring to arrange of facilitate the prostitution of a child under the age of 18, intentionally controlling the activities of another in relation to prostitution and supplying Class A and B drugs.

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Two Men arrested over activities of an Essex agency Girls4U

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/local/maldon/11435321.Two_men_arrested_over_activities_of_an_Essex_escort_agency___Girls4U/

http://www.harlowstar.co.uk/arrested-Essex-escort-agency-police-investigation/story-22835724-detail/story.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-28953427

http://swns.com/news/two-men-arrested-after-starting-child-escort-agency-called-girls4u-62807/

http://www.brentwoodgazette.co.uk/Detectives-make-new-arrests-escort-agency-probe/story-24837499-detail/story.html

“THREE more men have been arrested following investigations into the activities of escort agency Girls4U.”

Anyone with information about the Girls4U website should contact the investigation team on 101 or call Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555111.