Cops supporting sex workers in
Rosettenville
TMG Digital | 06 February, 2017
10:08
Johannesburg mayor Herman Mashaba
said that some of the prostitutes said that the brothels were supported by
officers from Moffat View Police Station. File photo.
Image by: SAM YEH / AFP
Image by: SAM YEH / AFP
Johannesburg
mayor Herman Mashaba will request an urgent investigation into claims that
prostitutes in Rosettenville are being “supported by officers from Moffat View
Police Station”.
He said this emerged on Sunday night
when he visited the area “after I was informed that community members had set
fire to three homes and one tavern believed to operate as alleged brothels and
drug dens”.
“According to community members‚
these homes are illegally occupied by Nigerian foreign nationals who run these
homes as brothels and have girls as young as nine years old working as
prostitutes.
“Many of the women in these brothels
are also alleged to have no official identification documentation.
“Some of
these woman who work as prostitutes told me that the brothels are supported by
officers from Moffat View Police Station.”…..
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