Fifty years' jail for 'immoral criminal family'
THREE members of "an immoral criminal family" who forced a 15-year-old girl to sell sex on the streets of Sheffield have been jailed for a total of 50 years.
The teenager was trafficked into the UK from Slovakia, then made to work as a prostitute, earning her captors up to 300 a night.
During the day she was held prisoner and sometimes beaten, only allowed to leave the family home in Page Hall Road, Grimesthorpe, to go on the streets. Judge Roger Keen QC said the family would all be deported at the end of their sentences.
He said: "You are an immoral criminal family whose continued presence here would be to the detriment of its citizens. You all intended to exploit her by selling her on the streets of Sheffield.
"You variously used deception, persuasion, violence, intimidation and coercion to profit from her. It meant nothing to any of you to degrade, exploit and abuse her. Your crimes are repugnant to the whole of society."
Mother-of-four Alzbeta Dunkova, aged 26, of Page Hall Road, Grimesthorpe, was jailed for 16 years after being convicted of trafficking for sexual exploitation and causing child prostitution after a nine-day trial at Sheffield Crown Court.
Her husband Marcel Dunka, aged 27, of the same address, was jailed for 17 years for trafficking, false imprisonment, causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, causing child prostitution and controlling a child prostitute.
He was described as "the main mover" in the enterprise.
Marcel's brother Roman Dunka, aged 34, who came over from Slovakia after organising the people trafficking operation, was also jailed for 17 years for trafficking for sexual exploitation, false imprisonment, causing child prostitution and controlling a child prostitute.
Dunkova screamed and threw herself at her husband in the dock as she was sentenced.
She was surrounded by security guards and hauled to the cells while relatives wailed in the public gallery. One elderly woman threw herself to the ground and began screaming "no".
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