A brothel that was functioning under the guise of a restaurant has been raided by the Matara Division of the Crimes Eradication Unit. According to the police, the raid was carried out based on a search warrant obtained from the courts.

Police added that the owner and two other women were arrested, subsequent to the raid. The suspects have been identified as residents of Thihagoda, Katunayake and Sevanagala.

The National Child Protection Authority has arrested the driver of a  three-wheeler and a woman who reportedly used an underage girl for prostitution. The authority said the sixteen-year-old girl had had an affair with the twenty-three-year-old driver.

The male suspect is reported to have taken lewd pictures of the girl, which he had subsequently used to frighten her into engaging in prostitution. The arrested woman, who also faces charges for using the sixteen-year-old for prostitution, is a thirty-five-year-old resident of Mount Lavinia.

The suspects were arrested based on a complaint made to the Child Protection Authority  by the father of the child.

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