The Internal Security Forces are expected to make more arrests of suspects linked to the sex trafficking ring busted last week, a report said Tuesday.
A judicial source told the Saudi-owned daily Asharq Al-Awsat in remarks published Tuesday that more suspects will be arrested “in light of confessions made by the detainees.”
Last week, the ISF announced that police had freed 75 girls held against their will in fresh raids to bust the largest known sex trafficking ring in the country.
The pimps, guards and a doctor, who performed about 200 abortions over a period of four years on the girls, have been arrested.
ISF found an eight-month-old baby belonging to one of the girls during the raids. The source said the mother kept the baby, as her pregnancy was discovered late by the sex ring.
The source said that “investigations are expected to end in the coming hours,” after which they will be referred to Mount Lebanon General Prosecutor Judge Claude Karam.
The source revealed that the crimes committed by members of the gang go far beyond forced prostitution.
They committed “serious crimes which includes the girls’ freedom of movement and torturing them,” the source said.
The girls, mostly of Syrian origin, were subject to psychological and physical torture, and were threatened that naked pictures and videos of them would be published online if they refused to have sex with clients.
The girls have been handed over to a number of local and international NGOs as per a judicial request.
