Sixteen girls have been rescued from a human trafficking ring in Kempton Park, eNCA reported on Friday night.
The girls told officers they endured sexual abuse at the hands of hundreds of men.
“A 15-year-old girl said she was brought here by Nigerians – two weeks back and they promised her they were going to give her a job – that’s how she got here,” Gauteng police commissioner, Major General Suzan de Lange, told eNCA.
eNCA said inside the house new and used condoms were strewn across the floors. The filthy bedrooms had more than one bed and there was a mattress in a corner in the kitchen. The young women told Hawks and South African Police Service officers they were abused, drugged and starved.
They said they were forced to sleep with over 15 men a day each and the clients would pay between R50 and R70.
Police officers, who arrested four men, found drugs and pornographic material as they swept through the house. The young women sat outside the house crying and comforting each other as they told of their capture and abuse.
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