COURT ORDERS GALWAY RESIDENT TO LEAVE COUNTRY IN ORGANISED PROSTITUTION CASE

Date Published: 13-Oct-2012

A court has ordered a Hungarian woman living in Galway and convicted of organising prostitution, to leave the country or go to jail.

The court heard that the three Hungarian women found in a flat in Sandyford, South Dublin were working voluntarily as prostitutes after hearing they could make hundreds of euro a day in Ireland.

Mother of two Roxanna Zolnay, 36, was the agent for a man based in Switzerland who organised to bring the women from Hungary to work as prostitutes.

Garda Sergeant Donal Griffith told the court that Zolnay named the man she was working for but as he was living in Switzerland they could not arrest him.

Zolnay of Geata na Cathrach, Fairgreen, Galway pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to organising prostitution at an apartment in Sandyford on May 29, 2012.

Judge Martin Nolan said he would suspend a sentence of two years in jail on the condition that Zolnay leave Ireland for five years.