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Fake teen on trial over lies to newspaper
The Romanian prostitute now 28 who claimed to be 14 so she could feature in a four-page investigation in the Daily Mail into under-age prostitution has gone on trial after a three-year investigation.
The special report by award winning journalist Chris Rogers also ran on ITV's News at 10 and on CNN in 2008, as well as in the Daily Mail Night and Day magazine - detailing how they had managed to buy a 14-year-old from sex slave traders at a petrol station in Iasi, a town in north eastern Romania.
But Romanian officials incensed at the claims that the country had a flourishing trade in under age prostitutes investigated, and discovered that the alleged teenager was in fact Monica Ghinga, then 25, who had been working as a prostitute since 2006.
The indictment charging her with prostitution used the clips from the report to prove that she worked on the streets charging clients sums from 12 to 25 euros.
Iasi police spokesman Madalin Soranu said: "We opened the investigation because we wanted to see if it was really human trafficking. She has been charged with prostitution as a result of this case."
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