January 28, 2004

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  ARMY CAPTAIN RUNS CHILD SEX RING
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  Jan 25 2004 By Roger Insall

  
  

  Captain Richard Clarke, a commander in the Royal Logistic Corps is masterminding a plot to smuggle girls as young as l3 from Africa and hire them out as sex slaves to perverted pals in his regiment and lusting civilians.

  
  

  Clarke:

  
  
• PAYS slave traffickers to recruit vulnerable girls from poor families in Africa and smuggle them into Britain.
  
• OFFERED £1,000 for a 15-year-old virgin to be delivered to his home and plans to hawk her around selling sex to the highest bidder.
  
• ORDERED a 13-year-old girl for his own use as a live-in sex slave.
  
• PLANS to get rich by running a vice network along the South Coast specialising in teenage black girls.
  
• SECRETLY ran his own brothel with 15 girls in Zimbabwe while stationed there with the British Army.
  

  Clarke, who graduated with honours from Sandhurst, has seen action in Afghanistan and Kosovo and during the Iraqi war he and his men secured the Port of Umm Qasr ahead of the Royal Marines.