Spain & Poland Rescue 13 Sex Trafficking Victims, Arrest 17

Spanish and Polish authorities arrested 17 alleged members of a transnational human trafficking organization and rescued 13 victims, who were forced to endure slavery-like conditions and sexual servitude, Europol reported Tuesday. Police in the two countries carried out a series of raids against the sex traffickers’ network and in the process rescued women who were brought into Europe under false pretenses, kidnapped, and made to serve as prostitutes whenever a client called upon them. The victims, Europol said, were deceived by the traffickers into thinking that they would be brought into Europe as irregular migrants and granted work visas upon…