They were locked in apartments and could not go out alone even for a minute. Eleven girls had to stay under home arrest and work as prostitutes for about two years in the Russian city of Saratov. They would be taken out for walks in Bolshaya Kazachya Street. Law-enforcement officers of the regional Internal Ministry department, and the Saratov-based Office of the Public Prosecutor managed to arrest a gang that controlled the mentioned street.
Criminal boss Roman, the driver, was in charge of the cooperation with law-enforcement bodies. When police officers asked prostitutes, why they had not come to police before, they answered that their bosses had someone in the police anyway. The Saratov police obtained the information about a criminal gang that oppressed eleven prostitutes in the beginning of the year.
They intimidated and threatened the girls, making them work all the time. Clients were taken to the Bolshaya Kazachya Street, pimps rented three apartments there. Drugs or alcohol beverages were strictly banned. A girl was allowed to go out only if she was accompanied by a pimp. After all deductions, one girl was paid or rubles. If a girl refused to work, she would be either fined or beaten. An escape was punished with larger fines.
A lot of "workers" have tried to escape many times, but they were not lucky. Fines were used more often than beating, because pimps did not want to make their prostitutes look ugly. Girls were selected carefully from small settlements on the outskirts of the city.
At first, they would take all their IDs away from them and then humiliated them morally and psychologically, trying to make them weak-willed human beings. Criminals were good psychologists, they used threats and bribery methods to make the girls do what they wanted them to do. The girls were intimidated and humiliated but they were dreaming of finding the real love.
