A District Court convicted the defendant of three counts of fraud, two counts of trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation, two counts of aggravated trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation in combination with extortion, one count of assault, one count of solicitation to issue false health certificates, one count of solicitation to use false health certificates, one count of pimping in combination with attempted aggravated trafficking in human beings for sexual exploitation, and one count of extortion. for the purpose of sexual exploitation, and extortion in combination with bodily injury. with bodily injury to a total term of imprisonment of four years and two months.

The female victim from Uganda has been recruited in Uganda by an Italian perpetrator. She agreed to his offer to work in Italy in a restaurant. Upon arrival In Italy, the victim was faced with the duty to ‘pay her debts’ for the administrative costs, travel, and accommodation with ‘sexual services’, i.e. forced prostitution in Italy and after some weeks in Germany. In Germany, she applied for asylum. Her passport had been taken away by the Italian.

The Romanian perpetrator and the Romanian female victim were both preliminarily arrested as they vigorously argued with each other on the street. During questioning, it turned out that she wanted to free herself from forced prostitution. Based on the statements, possible links to a criminal group in Romania, Bulgaria and Switzerland were identified. A European Investigation Order was issued in each case, but this did not lead to any results. This is surprising, because a witness (customer of the victim) had testified that he had been offered to ransom the woman for 10,000.00 EUR.

2 Hungarian male perpetrators brought 1 Hungarian women to Berlin/Germany (false promise of work in Germany) for the purpose of sexual exploitation as a prostitute in a brothel. One ‘customer’ (German citizenship) informed the police that there might be a case of human trafficking in the brothel. During investigations, the Hungarian woman said it was her own choice to accept this work. While the case was almost being closed, it appeared that the Hungarian woman herself became active as a ‘pimp’ – in Bremen, where two Bulgarian women ‘worked for her’ in an apartment. Hence, the victim finally turned out to be a perpetrator herself.

The perpetrators (1 man from Nigeria and 1 brothel operator with Lithuanian citizenship) forced a woman from Nigeria in Germany to prostitution in the brothel of the Lithuanian citizen. About the background: The Nigerian originally helped the victim to flee Nigeria for economic reasons with the promise of a decent job in Europe. She had no money and initially had to engage in street prostitution for him in Italy. In Nigeria, he had taken her to a voodoo priest who swore her to do whatever the perpetrator told her to do. If she did not do this, the voodoo would kill her. In Germany, she was raped several times by the Nigerian, including by johns. He sexually abused the common child with her during the whole time. He had taken the ID card from her. From Italy, they first went to restaurants in northern Germany for the purpose of illegal prostitution. It is noticeable that the restaurants were run by Thai and Bulgarian women. A guest in the brothel then filed an anonymous police report with reference to possible human trafficking and forced prostitution.

The German husband (perpetrator) of a Turkish-German (dual citizenship) woman (victim) forced her to prostitute herself (streetwalking). The background was the common drug addiction.