Security Forces Free Two Girls from Human Trafficking
The Internal Security Forces Intelligence Bureau announced on Friday the liberation of two girls who were abducted and forced into prostitution, it said in a communique.
Two Syrian girls were freed and a Syrian man was arrested in an operation carried out by the security forces in the Khaldeh region south of Beirut on Thursday.
The girls were led to believe by the suspect that they were to be employed as singers.
They arrived in Khaldeh on March 13 where their passports were seized and they were kept locked in an apartment.
The victims were then forced into prostitution.
One of the girls managed to telephone the security forces, which led to the raid that resulted in their liberation.
The detained suspect has a record in drug related offenses.
Last week, the ISF announced that it had busted Lebanon's largest known sex trafficking ring and freed 75 mainly Syrian women.
"This is the largest sex trafficking ring we've uncovered since the outbreak of the Syrian war," a Lebanese security source told AFP.
Ten men and eight female workers were arrested. Two of the ring's masterminds are still on the run.
Even before the Syrian conflict erupted in 2011, Syrian women had been pushed into the illicit sex trade in neighboring Lebanon.
A doctor who carried out abortions for the victims recently confessed to his actions and the Health Ministry earlier this week sealed off his office with red wax, barring him from practicing medicine.
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