Senators Demand ‘Immediate Action’ After Explosive Report on Navy Sex Trafficking Scandal – By Gina Harkins (Military.com) / July 29 2020
Three lawmakers want the Navy secretary to explain how his service will combat prostitution and trafficking in the wake of a troubling report about sailors in Bahrain profiting from the sex trade there.
Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal, Kirsten Gillibrand and Tammy Baldwin sent a letter to Navy Secretary Kenneth Braithwaite on Tuesday, calling on him to respond to a host of questions about how the service is responding to charges that sailors in the Middle East were attempting to recruit and harbor women for commercial sex acts.
Navy Times recently published a series of stories that detailed the Naval Criminal Investigative Service probes into sailors trafficking Thai women to work as prostitutes in Bahrain. Some sailors, the paper found, seized the women’s passports and were housing them in government-funded residences.
The senators called the reports deeply concerning.
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