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Cardinal Vincent Nichols turns deeply earnest as he leans forward from his armchair to recalls an early encounter with human trafficking.
“The first person I met, who really shocked me,” he says, “was a blonde woman with blue eyes, white skin and was from England. She was cajoled into going to Italy supposedly with her boyfriend and then was held as a sex slave for the next 10 years.”
Cardinal Nichols has been on a learning curve since 2012 when police turned to the Church for assistance amid a surge of foreign women trafficking into the capital to work as prostitutes during the London Olympics.
His eyes have been opened to the enormity and scale of “a systematic trade in human beings” and he has been fighting against it since.
His efforts means that this Christmas, at a Catholic Church-run safe house in the heart of central London, about a dozen women from as many countries dined together knowing that they are safely beyond the reach of the criminals who trafficked them into the country to exploit them abhorrently.
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“The first person I met, who really shocked me,” he says, “was a blonde woman with blue eyes, white skin and was from England. She was cajoled into going to Italy supposedly with her boyfriend and then was held as a sex slave for the next 10 years.”
Cardinal Nichols has been on a learning curve since 2012 when police turned to the Church for assistance amid a surge of foreign women trafficking into the capital to work as prostitutes during the London Olympics.
His eyes have been opened to the enormity and scale of “a systematic trade in human beings” and he has been fighting against it since.
His efforts means that this Christmas, at a Catholic Church-run safe house in the heart of central London, about a dozen women from as many countries dined together knowing that they are safely beyond the reach of the criminals who trafficked them into the country to exploit them abhorrently.
Continued below.
The quiet work of liberating trafficked women from slavery - Catholic Herald
Cardinal Vincent Nichols turns deeply earnest as he leans forward from his armchair to recalls an early encounter with human trafficking. “The first person I met, who really shocked me,” he says, “was a blonde woman with blue eyes, white skin and was from England. She was cajoled into going to...
catholicherald.co.uk
