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High court increases term for sex slave couple

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A Jutland couple who made money from allowing men to have sex with two foreign teens living with them had their sentence extended

The Western High Court in Århus today upheld the guilty sentence of a man and woman sentenced to prison for keeping two teenage Slovakian girls in their house as sex slaves. Both sentences were increased from two and a half to three years and the male defendant is to be deported.

The case began in March 2008, when a 17-year-old Slovakian girl went to the police and accused the couple – Said Fraira and his then girlfriend Iveta Andersen – of keeping her in their apartment where men paid the couple to have sex with her.

When police raided the address in Viby, near Århus, they found another Slovakian girl aged 19 in similar circumstances. The two teens had been promised a good job and better life in Denmark when they willingly came here with the couple.

Instead they were subjected to having sex with up to eight men a day and earned at least 200,000 kroner for the Århus couple, reports B.T. newspaper. The 17-year-old became pregnant as a result.

The couple pleaded guilty to human trafficking during the district court case and were sentenced accordingly.

On hearing of his increased sentence and deportation today, 40-year-old Fraira verbally lashed out at the judge. Fraira has two children aged seven and 14, and accused the court of destroying all their lives.

‘What right have you to separate me from my children – are they animals? You’re destroying not just my life, but my children’s. What will I tell them when they are grown up? I have lived in Denmark for 18 years, my life stops here,’ shouted Fraira, who also said he feared his ex-girlfriend as she had practised ‘voodoo’ on him.

It was not clear at the time of going to print to which country Fraira will be deported.

Public prosecutor Michael Møller Hansen said there was no doubt the two had committed a serious crime, especially due to the age of one of the girls.

‘Technically this was not a case of rape, but it really is. The girls were forced to go with men to please the accused, who were only thinking of maximising profits,’ said Hansen.

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