1. Posted on Wednesday 18 February 2009 - 08:10

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   Anas

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   Anas Aremeyaw Anas, AfricaNews reporter in Accra, Ghana Photo: The New Crusading Guide

   The boss of a sophisticated Chinese sex cartel, Peach Blossom Palace, has been arrested in Ghana's capital Accra in a poverty stricken area called La. The sex cartel running under the guise of a bar, traffics sexually enticing Chinese girls into West Africa - Ghana, Togo and Nigeria - for sex slavery.

   

   The head of the brothel King James, a Chinese, was arrested in the midst of scores of raunchy mini-skirted Chinese girls filling up his glass with exotic French champagne. He spins his cozy swivel chair in sensuous delirium as the ladies’ dainty fingers caress his neck, back and shoulders to orthopedic effect. The girls are allegedly sold for USD$ 6,000 to clients.
   
   His arrest and rescue of the unsuspecting trafficked victims and Ghanaian alleged accomplices in a successful police swoop on Valentine’s Day, follows six months of backbreaking undercover investigations by Ghana’s knack investigative reporter – Anas Aremeyaw Anas of the New Crusading Guide newspaper. This reporter posed as a bartender in the hotels where this sordid business is carried out. He managed to capture every aspect of this trade with a hidden camera.
   
   Seven Chinese girls and a Ghanaian couple, identified as house helpers of James, were rescued by the police. James, who was sitting bare-chested, was also arrested with his wife next to him.
   
   Peach Blossom Palace, which from the exterior appears to be a bar, held several rooms which served as brothels for the Chinese girls. During a thorough search of the house, the police found bags filled with condoms, needles and syringes, medicines, artificial vibrator penis, wooden penis, passports, exotic pornographic movies, microphones for singing and lap dancing equipment.
   
   The police also retrieved USD$14,000 in cash and some unspecified amount of money in Chinese Yuan and Ghana cedis. According to an insider, the money was part of fees paid for the sexual exploitation of the victims in the previous week.
   
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   The report that rocked Ghana’s media said the young and pretty girls attract more cash. “If they are between the ages of 19 and 22, their price can be higher than $ 200 per night. Virgins can fetch over 1000 dollars, as for traffickers they go where the money is, they don’t care whether it’s Africa or Mongolia, the cash is most significant,” an insider told Kester Aburam Korankye of the Cobra Eye Investigative Team.
   
   Anas also pretended to befriend a lady who lived in the brothel and from whom, over a period of four months, he obtained valuable, first-hand accounts of the activities of King James and his colleagues. He had hardcore evidence on video and upon the presentation of this evidence that the Police CID raided the brothel last weekend.
   
   Anas reported that “Poor, innocent and vulnerable Chinese girls, some as young as 19, are the human commodity on sale paraded in front of the clients like pieces of meat in a butcher shop window. They are lured here with promises of honest, well-paid jobs, only to have their passports and return tickets confiscated. The travel documents may be recovered, but only after one had paid off the cost – invariably inflated - of the trip to Accra. They are beaten and threatened with a high debt to be repaid only through the sale of their bodies. They are thrown into debt bondage and forced to sell their innocence and human dignity for their master’s gain in nightclubs and casinos. ‘I was told that I was going to be waitressing in a Chinese restaurant, but it however turned into nightmare. There was no way of turning back and I resorted to this dehumanizing business’ said one of the girls. Any of this trafficker’s victims, who attempt anything akin to disobedience, not to talk of rebellion, is firmly, swiftly and brutally repressed.”
   
   James is reported to be making millions of dollars that flow not from his own pores, but from the bloody chores of hapless, naïve lasses he has made whores on the shores of West Africa. He is usually spotted in Ghana’s most expensive casino, wearing Gucci shades, a golden brown Emperio Amani tuxedo and a custom-made Rolex wrist watch.
   
   

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1. Posted on Thursday 19 February 2009 10:19

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   cjpayne

   

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   Dear Mr. Anas,
   
   As one that has campaigned against sexual servitude traffiking since 1992, I have read a lot of news stories on the subject...and this one of yours is the best.
   
   To go to the lengths that you did to get this story, and then to write it the way you have, makes you a credit to your profession.
   
   Very well done Sir.
   
   Yours Faithfully
   Chris Payne
   Brisbane, Australia.

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