I think we’ll need a trial or two to connect all the dots but it presumably comes back to the Romanian charges of (to quote Wikipedia): “rape, human trafficking, and forming an organised crime group to sexually exploit women” as well as remaining “under investigation concerning money laundering and trafficking of minors”. From an earlier report:
Reuters, reporting on the unpublished court documents, also said that prosecutors allege that Tate forced victims to perform on TikTok and OnlyFans pages he controlled, raping one of the women twice while seeking to enlist her.
Tate was detained on December 29 in Bucharest, the Romanian capital, as part of an ongoing human trafficking and rape investigation.
Romanian investigators said in a press release that at least six women were victims of a trafficking scheme, which involved the exploitation of women by forcing them to create pornographic content for paywalled websites.
The press release specifically mentions the “loverboy method” — a known human trafficking technique where men seduce and manipulate women into sex work
There are lots of positive stories from OnlyFans creators about his it helped them earn a living but there is likely to be a dark underbelly with people not being in control of their accounts and, potentially, not consenting to the content being uploaded. There’s been quite recent news about minors either uploading material to the site or an abuser doing it.
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Why does the streetwalker not ditch her pimp? Usually it’s social isolation, emotional manipulation, drugs and violence.
OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 3 months ago
That and we don’t really allow sex workers to have a proper place of work and hire proper security so they are left to work on the street and seek the protection of a pimp.