Black Country man charged as part of sex slavery ring
A man from the Black Country has been charged as part of a UK-wide investigation into an alleged child sex slavery ring.
Raids were carried out nationwide by investigators probing an organised crime network suspected of sexually exploiting young Slovakian Roma girls.
Radko Karchnak, aged 20, of Walsall Street, Wednesbury, is one of eight people accused.
The eight appeared at Medway Magistrates Court in Kent yesterday charged with a total of 36 offences – including rape, false imprisonment, and administering a substance to allow sexual activity.
The charges follow the arrest of 22 people after warrants were executed across Kent, the Midlands and Yorkshire in the early hours of Wednesday. More than 320 Kent Police officers conducted the raids following reports about child exploitation in Margate, Dover, Folkestone, Gravesend and the Midlands. Karchnak was remanded in custody.
