{"id":55038,"date":"2023-09-05T19:57:20","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T19:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/australian-man-charged-over-rape-human-trafficking"},"modified":"2023-09-05T22:27:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T22:27:19","slug":"australian-man-charged-over-rape-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/australian-man-charged-over-rape-human-trafficking","title":{"rendered":"Australian man charged over rape, human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>A man of Australian origin has been charged before the Chief Magistrates Court in Jinja for alleged rape and human trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur sexual and gender-based violence department at Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in coordination with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has today (yesterday) arraigned a foreign national at the Chief Magistrates Court, Jinja Court on charges of rape and human trafficking,\u201d Police spokesperson Fred Enanga Enanga told the media during a weekly press briefly in Kampala yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said cases of human trafficking and sexual exploitation are on the rise in the country. The Force, however, didn\u2019t give statistics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you\u2019re all aware, we are registering an increase in human trafficking and cases of sexual exploitation, yet these are very disgraceful and unacceptable crimes in society,\u201d Mr Enanga said.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the suspect took advantage of his female workers and forced them into have sex with him, failure of which he would threaten to fire them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe in addition participated in multiple and group sex with the female victims and also instructed them to perform sexual acts using sex toys as he recorded them on videos,\u201d Mr Enanga said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recovered several videos which were exhibited. We established that the pornographic content in the videos were being generated for commercial purposes,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><b>Collective effort<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Police urged anyone with information about a potential human trafficking offence in their area to contact them so that further inquiries can be carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Late last month, police in Sezibwa region, arrested owners of a massage parlor in Njeru Town on allegations of trafficking people for sexual exploitation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. A man of Australian origin has been charged before the Chief Magistrates Court in Jinja for alleged rape and human trafficking. \u201cOur sexual and gender-based violence department at Criminal Investigation Department (CID) headquarters in coordination with the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has today (yesterday) arraigned a foreign national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":55036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-55038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Australian man charged over rape, human trafficking - 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