Sex Traffickers Arrested in Sweden

(Stockholm, Sweden) Locations in Stockholm and southern Sweden were raided yesterday and police arrested nine suspects, including eight Romanian nationals, for sex trafficking or pimping. It's believed that a total of a dozen women and underage girls were smuggled from Romania to Sweden to work as prostitutes.

Notably, prostitutes are not prosecuted under Swedish law, however, their customers are. Therefore, after questioning, the women and girls were released from custody and offered the choice of leaving the country or be "taken into care by the authorities." It's not exactly clear what kind of care the authorities provide for prostitutes.