It will become illegal to use prostitutes who have been trafficked into the country or who work for pimps or drug traffickers. The plan places the duty on the punter to discover whether the prostitute is controlled by a pimp, a trafficker in human flesh or a drug dealer. Ignorance would be no defence.
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The plan has raised some concern about the ability to assess whether or not a woman is under duress. She would certainly deny it out of fear of her pimp or of the villains who have bought her into sexual slavery. So would everyone around her. If the punter comes to the wrong conclusion about her, he will be prosecuted for a criminal offence, even though he thought he was within the law.
Additional facts and figures:-An estimated 100,000 men pay for sex in Britain every year, the vast majority of whom will be targeted by the new legislations.
-The decision to criminalise men who pay for sex with trafficked women is likely to have a widespread impact.
-The Metropolitan police have estimated that 70% of the 88,000 women involved in prostitution in England and Wales are under the control of traffickers.
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