Eighteen months ago two young girls were reported missing by their worried families.
They were Tania Nicholl and Gemma Adams, sex workers from Ipswich.
In the following month their bodies and the bodies of three girls like them were found, strangled and dumped. The Suffolk town would never be the same again.
Today the East Anglian reported that, thanks to the work of the Police and local Community projects in Ipswich, there are now NO girls working on the streets of Ipswich.
I recently made a Radio Documentary about what has been done in there to eradicate prostitution. In light of today's news I wanted to share it with you:
The government are yet to consider the Prostitution clauses of the Criminal Justice and Immigration bill.
It’s a debate that attracts a lot of attention and could see the UK move to either decriminalise sex workers, or completely outlaw the industry.
So what did Ipswich do that worked so well?
But that's obviously not the ONLY way to deal with the issue. What else has been done around the world?
So what do you think? It's such a complicated issue but it's so important that we make our minds up and decide on a course of action to help these girls.
Genuinely, everyone I met when I was making this documentary really believed in what they are doing.
The girls that have been helped by the Iceni project had absolutely no hope in life. They were desperate, at absolute rock bottom. Suzannah would probably have gone the same way as her parents if she hadn't had Brian and Co. to save her.
What if it was you, your Mum, your sister, or your DAUGHTER? Wouldn't you want to do whatever you could to get them out of this life?
No girl WANTS to be in this life, so lets help them get out of it.
May it one day not even be an option.
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