Women held as sex slaves, drugged and tattooed as being 'property', Queensland police say

A man and woman have been charged with drugging several women and keeping them as sex slaves for clients at two Brisbane residences.

Police said the 35-year-old man gave the women stupefying drugs, controlled their finances and work conditions and tattooed them as "being his property".

He and a woman were arrested during a search of two properties, at South Brisbane and Mount Gravatt East, yesterday.

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Four women, between the ages of 17 and 24, were found at the Mount Gravatt East home, but police believe there are more alleged victims.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-05/brisbane-prostitution-charges-sex-slaves-mount-gravatt/13125336

Catholic Church paedophile networks to be mapped 'like organised crime' by academics

A "mafia-like" code of silence among "dark networks" within the Catholic Church has begun to emerge from a world-first project mapping clerical paedophile networks, says an academic behind the project.

Key points:

The first mapping effort linked 99 clergy to 16 paedophile networks in the Melbourne and Ballarat dioceses

Documents and the oral histories of at least 50 survivors are being used

Women in the church and nuns will be examined as part of the mapping process

The project is led by Newcastle sociologist Kathleen McPhillips and criminologist Jodi Death (pronounced Deeth) from Queensland University of Technology's (QUT) law faculty.

The research builds on work done by Sally Muytjens, one of Dr Death's doctoral students, who mapped Catholic paedophile networks in Victoria.

The mapping will now include other hotspots such as Newcastle and the role of women in the church, nuns and seminaries.

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Jodi Death is a criminologist leading the mapping project.(Supplied: Twitter)

The Victorian project identified 99 clergy members as abusers linked to 16 paedophile networks in the Melbourne and Ballarat dioceses.

It found there was a "mafia-like" code of silence among clergy perpetrators who formed dark networks (DNs) within the Victorian Catholic Church.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-02-05/paedophiles-mapped-like-organised-crime/13122320