Key legal question
Whether recruiting and transporting the victim for prostitution constituted human trafficking under Art. 182 StGB despite her apparent consent.
Extracted holding
The victim's consent was not free because it was given under serious economic distress and vulnerability; the trafficking conviction stands.
Extracted reasoning
A consent to prostitution is ineffective when based on a situation of necessity, dependence, and lack of real decision-making freedom. The appellants knew of the victim's predicament and profited from it.