Human Trafficking



Moldova

Human trafficking is a major crisis in Europe especially in Moldova. Each year around 25,000 Southeastern Europeans are victims of trafficking each year. According to the IOM 10% of those Europeans are children. Victoria, one of 55 females helped each year run by the International Organization of Migration and the Ministry of Labour, had a friend she had known since she was a child worded at a boutique in Dubai and told her that she could get a similar job. After booking the trip to Odessa through a guy her friend put her in touch with she was kidnapped. Once she arrived she was met by a german speaking woman who took Victoria's and six other girls passports away and told them that they had been sold. The girls were denied food until they agreed to meet with "clients" and were continually beaten. Victoria is one of an estimated 800,000 women sold into a life of rape and torture. Majority of men are put into forced labor on construction sites while women are forced into the sex trade. Many people are sold into trafficking by people they know some of which the recruiters are women.

After one young girl's mother died her father was sent to prison for raping her. Pregnant her godmother offered to help her abort the baby and arranged for her to go to Turkey where her godmother sold her into sex trafficking. At the airport she was met by two men who took her and 3 other girls to a property where they were forced to treat their clients. Even though she was pregnant they continually abused her and made her work. In rural areas there is much violence, alcoholism, and high unemployment make people more vulnerable to trafficking. Many of the women don't consider themselves victims of sex trafficking because of their treacherous past they are treated better and given food and shelter. Although some escape their captors they are psychologically never the same because of all the abuse they had to endure.




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