Sonya McLean. A Brazilian woman who was allegedly trafficked to Ireland to work in prostitution has told a jury that her plan every day was to end the day alive. Ms Vailones Fidelis 46 , of Castle Manor, Racecourse Road, Roscommon, has denied all 18 charges against her, including two counts of human trafficking, one count of organising prostitution and money laundering charges on dates between and Ms Da Silva 32 , of Cairn Hill View, Drumlish, Co Longford, has admitted 35 charges including organising prostitution, facilitating the entry into the state of an illegal person and money laundering.
She has denied a single charge of human trafficking in The woman told Garnet Orange SC prosecuting that she came to Ireland in after a friend advised her that she could help organise work for her. She said her friend gave her the name of Lisa and contact details. Lisa then helped her organise her a passport, flights and an invitation letter to facilitate her entry into Ireland. She said she spent a week there because Lisa would tell her she had to move every week because it was too dangerous to stay.
She started work the very next day following her arrival into Ireland. She said Lisa would advise her that there was a customer at the door, either through message or a phone call and Lisa would have agreed with the client what service would be provided.
Sometimes there were drugs or they were aggressive. All of weird things relating to sex, humiliating things. She also had to pay the driver who moved her to a different location every week. She said that at the end of each week she counted the number of clients she had. She would tell Lisa the amount and then she had to lodge half that amount into an account, the details of which had been provided by Lisa. She said Lisa made her delete the WhatsApp conversations and she had to send a screenshot to prove that she had deleted them.
The woman told Mr Orange that she never set up the profile on Escort Ireland because she had no English at the time and she said Lisa took care of the site. She paid for the pictures and told me I had to pay her back. She told the jury of an occasion at Christmas when Lisa rented a house for all the girls to spend Christmas together. She said that was time she got to meet the person she had been speaking to on the phone β the person she knew as Lisa.
