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I reported a few months ago that several men are threatening teenage girls and coercing them into prostitution. The police arrested 15 people after chasing them for five months.



This is G1 Broadcasting reporter Sujin Yoon.



<Reporter> I



was only in middle school.



The older brothers I knew got into a luxury foreign car and induced the Muncock accident, and threatened to prostitute themselves if they couldn't pay for the repairs of millions of won.



[Middle school girl threatened with sexual exploitation (voice double): They say to me, 'Do your job'.

I said 'work and pay it back', so I turned in to the police, and they said there was another way and asked me to save the other kids.



Speak in a

real anti-threatening manner.] With

threats of weakness and the temptation to earn money easily, minors were forced into prostitution.



The police arrested 15 people, including gang members, and arrested 8 people on charges of prostitution, coercion, and prostitution.




[(Do you have anything to say to the victims?) …

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Most of the members of the organization were men in their twenties, and they committed crimes across the country by dividing their roles into liaison, recruitment, and collection books.



There are 11 confirmed minor victims, and they arranged for prostitution over 1,200 times over a year and a half until last August, earning 200 million won in criminal proceeds.



[Park Jong-pil / Gangwon Police Agency's Female Youth Crime Investigation Team: The suspects move in groups of 2 or 3 to all over the country, then recruit prostitutes through a chatting app and move the victims systematically and systematically...

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Police believe that some members of the gang called the victims in the process of escaping and had them prostituted for over a month.



The police are cooperating with relevant agencies to protect the victim's life, and at the same time, are pursuing the two main criminals of a sexual exploitation organization who are on the run, with a departure ban and a wanted list.



(Video coverage: Kim Min-soo G1 broadcast, Ha Jung-woo G1 broadcast)