Government Faulted in Report on Sex Slaves
About 3,000 women, mainly from the former Soviet Union, are sold each year into Israel’s sex industry, which takes in about $1 billion annually, a parliamentary report said, slamming the country’s justice system for lax punishments.
The women are usually smuggled in by traffickers who promise them legitimate jobs. Once in Israel, they are sold to pimps for between $3,000 and $6,000 each, the report said.
Israeli courts generally reach a plea bargain with the pimps and sentence them to community service, or up to two years in prison, which the report said is not a deterrent.
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