Maria Vaduva, aged 21 from 18 Riverside Apartments and Mihaela Niculae, 36 who were working as prostitutes.
ONE in every three customers using a brothel in Donegal was from Derry, Derry Daily has learned.
Four women appeared in court in Letterkenny yesterday charged with running brothels from three apartments in the town.
Before the court were Andrea Mihaela Hotoleane, aged 28 from 20 Riverside Apartments, Florea Mihaela, aged 34 from 20 Riverside Apartments, Maria Vaduva, aged 21 from 18 Riverside Apartments, Mihaela Niculae, aged 36 from 18 Riverside Apartments.
All were charged with prostitution.
Representing all four women, solicitor Patsy Gallagher said they were all vulnerable ladies whose circumstances had brought them here.
He revealed that two of them had young children at home but had travelled to Ireland to make money so they could send back cash to their families.
One of them had almost €6,000.
But of the money taken from the rest, half was in sterling notes.
It’s understood that a large number of Derry men have been identified by Gardai investigating a wider prostitution operation.
They had used the Escort Ireland website to ‘book’ services at the Riverside apartments.
It’s understood Gardaí retrieved a large number of northern mobile phone numbers from the phones used by the prostitutes and this information will be shared with the PSNI.
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