Prostitution ring in Madrid tattooed 19-year-old woman with bar code

[Blue_Tires]

A Spanish National Police investigation into two Madrid prostitution rings led to the rescue of a captive 19-year-old woman who was tattooed with a barcode on her wrist after she tried to escape the ring, authorities said Saturday.

The bar code served as a form of identity for the woman and as certificate of "ownership" by one prostitution ring, and beneath the bar code was also tattooed the amount of money she owed the ring, police said.

Held hostage by a pimp, the woman had multiple lesions from being beaten and whipped, and her head and eyebrows were shaven because she tried to flee, police said.

In all, police disbanded two prostitution rings along Madrid's Montera Street that were operated by two Romanian nationals -- an uncle and his nephew -- and authorities arrested a total of 22 people, including the two relatives, in Madrid and Getafe, police said.

http://us.cnn.com/2012/03/24/world/europe/spain-prostitution-tattoo/index.html?iref=obnetwork

[Sherman A1]

1. There is a special place for these people

and something from Dante comes to mind......

[rocktivity]

2. Oh, how handy -- scan and pay via credit card

How does it show up on the bill -- as Montera Street Unlimited?


rocktivity

[uppityperson]

3. "the amount of money she owed the ring"? Money for what, food, housing, etc? Good grief, glad they

got her out.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. There's a video

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/03/25/spain-bar-code-prostitution-ring.html

These pimps need to be be tattooed, chained for a few years, and have their eyebrows shaved off

[Blue_Tires]

9. +1

[get the red out]

5. No one will agree with this

But pimps should either go to prison for the rest of their lives or be executed. I prefer executed.

[Zookeeper]

7. I agree with you. n/t

[aquart]

6. One of the side effects of totalitarianism

is how many people have no respect or regard for law or authority. Romanians had the dictator from Hell and they coped, but a long-term residual is a very cynical view of the world.

[Blue_Tires]

8. very true

although some ugly traditions still in practice date way farther back:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ala_kachuu