bout de papier, Vol. 3, No. 2 (1985) — Summer 1985 // Été 1985, p. 22
Some foreign diplomats in New York, Washington, Geneva and London keep women slaves they lend out to other men for sex, a leading anti-slavery campaigner has charged.
The hands of the police in all those countries were tied because the slave-owners could claim diplomatic immunity, he added.
Col. Patrick Montgomery, former secretary of the London-based Anti-Slavery Society, made his allegations in a letter published by the prestigious London Times.
In one case, he said, a young woman emerged from a diplomat’s apartment and showed an older woman bite marks on her arm and a brand mark on the top of her head.
“She was, on several occasions, seen being dragged out screaming to be lent to the diplomat’s men friends, for sex,” he said.
Montgomery said young women are lured to London with talk of a relatively luxurious life as domestic servants. Instead, they find themselves confined, sexually abused and unable to contact outsiders.
… (and those men in striped pants always seemed so tame).
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