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A couple have been charged with multiple sexual assault offences after Police stormed an alleged ‘sex slave operation.
35-year-old Matthew James Markcrow and his girlfriend, 23-year-old Crystal Marie Sawyer are accused of giving several women drugs and using them as prostitutes.
The allegations include tattooing the women as the ‘property of Mr Markcrow. It is also suggested that every aspect of the women s lives were controlled as they were used as sex slaves.
Markcrow is bail refused and remains in Police custody, while Sawyer was granted conditional bail.
New charges laid over Brisbane sexual slavery ring
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Ms Stead faced court today, charged with conducting a business involving servitude with a victim under 18 and unlawful prostitution.
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A Brisbane woman has appeared in court this morning charged over her involvement in a sexual slavery ring that was uncovered in Brisbane last week.
Police charged Hannah Stead, 23, with conducting a business involving servitude with a victim under 18 and unlawful prostitution.
Matthew James Markcrow is accused of drugging women and keeping them as sex slaves.
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Four females, between the ages of 17 and 24, were found at the Mount Gravatt East home, but police believed there were more alleged victims.
A woman accused of being involved in an alleged sexual slavery operation, in which several women were drugged and tattooed as property, has appeared at a Brisbane court.
05:53 EDT, 12 February 2021
A third person has been charged over an alleged sex slave operation where at least four women were allegedly drugged and tattooed as property.
Hannah Christina Stead, 23, was allegedly involved in the illegal enterprise in 2019 and faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Friday.
Alleged leader Matthew James Markcrow, 35, and his girlfriend Crystal Marie Sawyer, 23, were arrested and charged after police raided two Brisbane properties last week.
Hannah Christina Stead (pictured), 23, was allegedly involved in an alleged sex slave operation in 2019 and faced the Brisbane Magistrates Court on Thursday
The alleged leader Matthew James Markcrow (left), 35, and his girlfriend Crystal Marie Sawyer (right), 23, were arrested and charged over their alleged involvement last week
Third person charged with alleged involvement in Queensland sex-slave ring
12 Feb, 2021 07:28 AM
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Footage of raid of property which lead to the arrest of two people in relation to sexual servitude and organised prostitution offences. Video / Queensland police
Footage of raid of property which lead to the arrest of two people in relation to sexual servitude and organised prostitution offences. Video / Queensland police
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A Queensland woman has been charged in relation to in an alleged sexual slavery ring uncovered in Brisbane last week.
Hannah Christina Stead, 23, appeared in Brisbane Arrests Court on Friday after being charged with conducting a business involving servitude and unlawful prostitution.