Sex Slave Trade – One Mans Mission for Salvation
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An estimated half-million women and young girls are trafficked annually for the purpose of sexual slavery. This is the first in a series of posts about one man’s mission to rescue young girls from the sex slave trade, and to provide them with rehabilitation, education and a safe haven.
Photo by a girl named Rock
The realities of the horrors of the sex trade are astounding …
• Young girls are sold by their own parents to assist in support of their large families
• Some hide their femininity to avoid capture
• Girls provide oral sex for as little as 10 cents
• As few as 10 women and young girls are placed on ships to service up to 10,000 men
• Corporations send their executives on sex holidays to 4 and 5 star hotels where they’re provided with sex slaves
It happens to thousands daily — women and young girls are kidnapped, sold, or lured by traffickers who prey on their dreams of employment abroad for positions such as nannies, models and actresses. They’re then exported to Europe, the Middle East, the U.S. and elsewhere, where they’re sold to pimps, drugged, terrorized, locked in brothels and raped repeatedly. Sex trafficking has become the fastest growing form of organized crime in Eastern Europe, with Moldova and Ukraine widely seen as the centers of the global trade in women and girls.
The girls in the brothels aren’t working for profit or a paycheck. They’re captives to the traffickers and keepers who control their every move.
Photo Azmonden
In 2002, New York city police found a stinking, land based equivalent of a 19th century slave ship, with rancid bathrooms without doors, bare fetid mattresses, and a stash of penicillin, morning after pills and misoprostol — an anti-ulcer medication that can induce abortion. The girls were pale, exhausted and malnourished.
Under-age girls and young women from foreign countries are trafficked and held captive throughout the U.S. Most of them are taken to the United States through Mexico. Some of them have been baited by promises of legitimate jobs and a better life in America. Many have been abducted while others have been bought from or abandoned by their impoverished families.
They’re rented out for sex for as little as 15 minutes at a time, dozens of times a day. Sometimes they’re sold outright to other traffickers and sex rings. These sex slaves earn no money, there is nothing voluntary about what they do and if they try to escape they’re often beaten and sometimes killed.
The Grey Ring
Hotels in Kuala Lumpur with one level for which all windows are grey or essentially blacked out are typically brothels. 30 to 100 or more girls are held captive in one small room, on call 24/7. Girls as young as 5 years old are used as sex slaves.
A woman that appears around the age of 28 is more than likely to be only 21 years old. Because they have no fresh air, outdoor exercise, poor food and little sleep living in 24 hour artificial light, they age very rapidly. They’re also fed antibiotics like one would take daily vitamin supplements.
Cambodia — Child Sex Slavery
When Dalyn was only 12 years old, she was tricked and forced into prostitution. Locked in a cage with others underneath the brothel, she was starved, beaten and threatened at gun point until she agreed to service clients. She was only permitted to come out when a client came calling, and only fed when she provided sex.
While Vietnamese are running the brothel and take office, the CPP government has no power to control such cruel acts. From 186 raids, only 2 convictions were made. The brothel owner that trafficked Dalyn was a cop — it took but 1 phone call, and he was never prosecuted.
Many of these young girls are infected with HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. All are deeply traumatized and psychologically destroyed. The girl’s trust in the world is irrevocably shattered — many are given away by their own mothers. 1 in 10 will turn their backs on shelters.
Virginity is a prized commodity due to a country ravaged by AIDS. It’s also thought to bring luck and good health to a Cambodian man to sleep with a virgin. The young girls’ virginity is sold, and they’re typically finished after their first rape. But it’s not uncommon for the very young to have their hymen re-stitched and repeatedly sold as virgins.
BBC presents a unique hidden camera look, as undercover investigators posing as sex tourists talk with traffickers and their victims, and expose the government indifference that allows the abuses to continue virtually unchecked. Young girls from Cambodia and Vietnam are sold in the sex slave trade as young as 8 years old.
The Burmese government has around 600,000 troops, with zero in reserve, all on active duty, for a population of about 64 million. Between 75 to 90 percent of all tax and money going to the government is spent on the military.
This is not recommended reading if you do not have a strong stomach. This PDF file reveals aspects of what some hope to fight for change in Burma.
The report details 173 incidents of rape and other forms of sexual violence, involving 925 girls and women, committed by Burmese army troops in Shan State, mostly between 1996 and 2001.
Due to the stigma attached to rape, many women do not report incidents of sexual violence. Incidents may also not have reached SHRF, as information on human rights abuses in Shan State is gained from refugees arriving at the Thai-Burma border. Thus, figures in this report are likely to be far lower than the reality.
The report reveals that the Burmese military regime is allowing its troops systematically and on a widespread scale to commit rape with impunity in order to terrorize and subjugate the ethnic peoples of Shan State. The report also illustrates there is a strong case that war crimes and crimes against humanity in the form of sexual violence have and continue to occur in the state.
Once rescued from brothels and locations of slavery, these girls typically require rehabilitation and liberation, and often cannot be sent back to their homeland or families, as they’ll end up right back from where they came.
Where to Seek Help
AFESIP exists to combat trafficking in women and children for sex slavery; to care for and rehabilitate those rescued from sex slavery; to provide occupational skills and to reintegrate those rescued into the community in a sustainable and innovative manner.
AFESIP also seeks to combat the causes and effects of trafficking and sex slavery through outreach work in AIDS prevention; through advocacy and campaigning; through representation and participation in women’s issues at national, regional and international forums.
Visit the AFESIP website to learn more.
Copyright 2007 Life in the Fast Lane. Note: Life in the Fast Lane does not endorse or have affiliations with any organizations represented in this article in any manner or form.
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Thank you for doing your part to bring this epidemic in front of more people.
It’s really horrific what’s happening to these girls and there are so few people doing anything about it.
We’re having an organization at my church next month who go into these places and rescue the captives from slavery and hopefully this can generate some support from our community to help these girls.
Hope that Ryan has some success with the White Orchid program.
It really is deplorable and horrific that some countries willingly allow this to continue and simply turn a blind eye to it.
It seems that the countries involved in this slavery are also the ones that have a great number of troops under their dictators rule, yet the world leaders are happy to ignore it and prefer to invade other countries. I’m quite certain that if they used their resources better it would go a long way to stamping out this vile trade.
this is horrifying Deborah !!!!!
I wish Ryan every success in his mission and I will certainly pray for him and his cause…
I have a 16 year old daughter and I cannot possibly imagine how I would feel if she was ever to experience any of these horrors…..
surely we are not living in the dark ages..
I only wanna write with simples words: I like your style and for that will fame.
Congrat Deborah, you are in my eyes grandiose-talent blogger. Please to continue…I wish you to the best of luck.
Thanks very much Deborah for this heart wrenching article. My blood is boiling now. This article put a face on a very ugly tragedy. I think that not only does Ryan need warriors but also help in funding the operations. Rescue work of this nature needs proper logistical mechanisms and equipment to make them successful. Perhaps you and Ryan might provide information how such monetary help can be given. I for one, can see no worthier cause than this. Your article has got me thinking and motivated. Thanks.
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It is horrifying to think of what these girls lives must be like. After reading your post I want to do anything possible to help and will be contacting Ryan to see how I can help. In this day and age and with the resources available to our civilized world these atrocities should not be occurring.
That is just crazy, and kinda makes me sick to my stomach. The restitching thing really got to me. How could people find this attractive or something fun to do?
I hate that this stuff exists still in the world today, but I am very thankful that someone is out there trying to do something about it.
Great article, I had no idea.
The true answers are difficult to a problem like this. But there are some things that would help. I would go so far as to suggest that they perform vigilante justice against the people running the brothels. There is no reason to allow someone to live when they can so heartlessly put other human beings into a situation like this.
If 500,000 of these kids are being sold to the sex trade than that would mean about 10-20 million guys taking advantage of it. Sickening
wish i could do something but i am incapable to so but i pray for those girls and i hope many people tak enotice of this horrifing things .God don’t like people suffering but because of our sins we have caused trouble in our lives and we as human beings who have the power to stop this don’t want to. We are corrupt and evil.
you’re focussing on the victims. why not mention the perpetrators? who is doing this? who is taking advantage of these women and girls? who is selling them? who is buying them? they deserve to be named or at least pointed out that they exist. this is not something unfortunate that “happens” to women it is something that is done to them BY someone.
This is the type of crime that needs vigilante justice. The bastards that sell children for sex should be executed on site (preferably not in front of the children) with no questions asked. After a while people will get the hint that this is not a trade want to be involved.
What a huge task Ryan has taken on here. He has to change mindsets of the governments, who do not take the measures to stop this, of the parents who believe they are doing the right thing by selling their daughters and of those who pay for their ’services’.
It is not only the inhabitants of the countries themselves who hire the girls, what about the thousand upon thousand of visitors from so called civilized societies who who take advantage of the girls when visiting. This also applies to those in USA etc who are making it profitable for the slave traders to continue to smuggle the girls in. By concentrating on how bad these other countries are we are taking responsibility away from our own back door and from ourselves.
I am for legalized prostitution, as occurs in Australia, where brothels have to be registered. The government can keep track of what is happening , who is employed and ensure regular medical checks. This at least alleviates the problem to some extent.
Thank God for people like you. May the Lord walk with you in your mission. You do more in the name of Christ than the accumulate of most who profess to be His follower.
Though I’m an avowed pacifist, I recognize some things are worth inflicting violence for, and if that’s what it takes to stop this, so be it.
The videos linked in this post are not from Frontline, they are from the BBC. They are not about Ryan, White Orchid, or Blood Rose, it is about another NGO which was not named by the BBC to protect its work (but which I am personally familiar with). This work is never done as “one man’s mission,” it requires–as the BBC video shows though does not emphasize–an experienced, professional team that acts not as commandos but in full partnership with the police and legal authorities. Those who are interested might look at the work of International Justice Mission, which has been working in this area for nearly ten years.
Thailand, wonderful to hear you’d like to become involved
Thanks Levi, I was mortified when I found out about the ‘re-stitching’. How someone even dreams these things up without any conscience is far beyond me.
Eviscerator, it becomes very complicated trying to thwart people behind it, because in many circumstances the governments, police, and militia are the very ones doing it. Especially in Burma. Up to 90% of income the government receives from our countries goes to the illegal militia that are the culprits behind much of it.
Morgan, words simply can’t begin to describe the horrors.
Pete, even working to spread the word is a help. Someone whose paths you cross perhaps could.
Anna, see my reply to Eviscerator as to those behind it. But as for those enacting the violations of rape against these women, countries in the western world have the power to severly punish for it.
Anonymous, I agree with you wholeheartedly.
Sue, you don’t even know the half of it yet, which I’ll be reporting on in the near future. It boggles my mind how much planning has gone into every aspect.
And you’re bang on about the involvement within our own western countries. Girls are being smuggled in throughout the US. Corporations from western countries send their executives on sex holidays where these girls are being vistimized!
Boy, have I been living in the dark ages … I had no idea it had been legalized in areas in Australia. If it makes the women’s lives safer, filled with less strife, and does away with the use of young girls, I’m all in.
Thank you Chaos
Spread the word, as I said, you never know whose path you may cross who can help.
Andy, you’re right, it is from BBC, thanks for correcting me.
Perhaps you’ve misinterpreted what has been said here … I am not eluding to the notion that these videos were the works of Ryan’s team, they were presented as the only videos I found available that provided some good insight to cast light on the sex trafficking trade.
Not all work is coordinated with the police, as the police are the very ones involved in some areas.
Thanks for the info on the International Justice Mission.
http://www.crtec.org
Hello Everyone,
Thank you for the words of support.
This will just be a short niote to Andy C, as I am traveling right now.
Andy,
1. The organisation you say is being protected. You are wrong. They name the organisation leader of the group Somali Mam. I have links on the site to thier site.
They protect the location of the center ONLY.
She is a target in the region on gangs, she knows it and has a guard.
2. My video is from me and yes the other video is from another source, BBC, Front line, whoever it is, I know what this documentary is about and have seen first hand these same things. I miss your point here.
3. International Justice Mission are a joke in all aspects of whet they do.
I persoanly gave direct information about a brothel to one of thier directors last year, to simply see what they would do. They did nothing.
A lot of thier staff are ex white house staffers.
They are very poorly regarded by other humanitarain groups.
They do things for the camera, why do you not check up on the girls they have rescued on a raid they did in Cambodia a few years ago. 2 days later all the girls were gone…. the cameras got the footage, the children were arrested…. why? what does IJM do after? Nothing.
Anyone interested STAY AWAY FROM IJM.
If you do not like my work, thats fine but IJM is a bad organisation.
4. One mans mission.
It is a correct statement. I have people behind me, but I am the one who directly rescues those girls, I have done that on my own for years, now the Blood Rose team will do it with me.
5. You can not liase with government, police etc as if you have worked with the organisation in Cambodia you wish to protect’s name, you will also know that organising these things with police and goovernment means the likely hood of any girls still being in that location are probably around 5%.
The police and government own, have free services, kick backs etc from these people.
Back to the Grind Stone for me.
Take care everyone
Ryan
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This an interesting, but slightly misleading story. Yes, all that trafficking happens, and yes, those girls are abused, but Ryan’s organizations are “vapor”orgs at the moment. I realize that he is trying to get support, etc., but he needs to fund himself and start small and get some momentum before buying islands, putting 1200 medics in Burma etc. More results and less PR please.
Now, some facts:
1) An estimated 70% of men in Thailand and Cambodia have paid for sex at least once (vs. 16% in the US).
2) Prostitutes with pimps in the US also keep $0 of their earnings. They are emotional and mental slaves, more than physical slaves.
3) Violence will NOT overthrow the Burmese government or even take out the brothels. Especially violence from outsiders. The long-term answer is economic development and political freedom; the short term answer is an attack on corruption in the police and politics (in Thailand and Cambodia for a start).
4) There is supply and demand. The men are on the demand side; they will not reduce their demand without “education” and that’s unlikely in the next 10-15 years. On the supply side, desperately poor people will keep selling their daughters — so new girls will replace those “rescued”.
5) Legalization is an excellent step forward — by diverting demand, the number of girls taken in will fall.
This will not stop the “virgin” trade, which is also common in the middle east.
6) Family planning (and women’s education) will reduce the supply of “unwanted” girls as well as improve girls’ future prospects. These programs are also a good way to go.
7) All that said, I do agree that people in this business are evil. Better to attack from behind and the side instead of the front (commandos…)
Derek, thanks, the more widespread the knowledge of this is the better.
my God, Deborah, I have tear in my eyes at the end of this entry. It’s not that I don’t know about this problems. It’s just about… I am so stupid! I always said to myself that being so far from the source of the horror I cannot do anything. But that’s limitation. Sure we can do something. This is a typical situation where buzz and PR could make a difference. If only one child is saved, nothing is in vain.
Also teachers will probably want to join, doctors too… to help… This is not a matter of debate. This is not where we play the smart ones and say “it will not work, because…” this is where we encourage people to stand up and do something.
Because if we talk about it, maybe people who have money will decide to sponsor…
You’re exactly right Mihaela, if only one girl’s life is salvaged, it’s all worthwhile. The more prevalence this issue receives, the more there will be that become involved.
David,
1. If this was some time ago before I had anything in place, what would be the problem in being a ‘vapour’ org as you put it. Organisatiosn just starting, which mine is notalthough it is new, would only be damaged by your words, making people feel things just can’t happen.
2. Medics, please read the artical and then the site. I donot mention anything about medics and I at no point have said all of our work is in Burma.
3. More results and less PR. As this is the only artical that has been written, you are saying nothing is better? I have rescued girls already.
4. How do you expect people to get support and momentum without articals like this?
5. You mention doing things small first…. why do people think this is the best starting point, it always illudes me. What real changes has thier been in the world? On this I am talking on my part about GEB, but I have seen so many orgs histories and they seem like a bandade to the problems they tackle and never solving the route cause.
6. 70% etc. Where exactly have you found this information? How are these people asked these questions? How likely is it for an American vs an Asian person to admit this from those two countries. What social and culture elemenst must be taken into account. Which country has legalised prostitution in some states?
7. Prostitutes in the US, I can not say anything as I do not know where the evidence comes from, but right now I have read what you have said, if it is just to tell people about it ok, but not actually seeing why you are saying these things. My work is from first hand knowledge, your information I ‘guess’ is from an artical somewhere, but Icould be wrong. This only serves to make people depressed of the situation, what I do is practical ways to solve and eleviate, give hope and show results.
8. Violence – The burmese government gained power through vilolence. So this one point form my view makes yours mute. I am not promoting violence in anyway, just pointing out that this is how this governemnt came to power.
9. Economic development – How exactly can you do this in Burma if they spend 80+ % of allmoney on the Army. They have 600,000 torrps, no reserves….. China only has around 1.5 million full time I think and thier population is around a billion + while Burma’s population is only 64 million.
10. Deborah has said she will be writting a series of articals, GEB is the solution you are speaking about, or solution to a global problem that will reduce the need/desire and avaliablity of girls in the sex trade and much more to boot.
11. How did America gain it’s independence? How did Cambodia from Pol Pot.. as you are saying not froman outside force. How did Vietnam from the French, Chinese, American’s….. how did the Scottish for some time from the British….. these are questions for you to draw your own conclusions. The I would say, look what happens when you donot stand up for yourself…. The Mayan’s/ Inca empires….. the Aboriginies wereonce reduced to a fraction of thier population…. Native American Indians, persecuted to this day.
I do have a lot of respect for the Mauri people of NZ, the British just could not budge them.
12. How can you attack corrupt police and politicians? By passing more laws… who will enforce them?
13. We do more than just rescue girls.
14. You say about supply and demand and male education will make this problem better…. I do not class myself as slow, but I am failing to see how this will help. America has a highy standard of education and yet you stated before 16% admit to using a prostitute. So 16% is ok… or am I simply mis understanding. I am not being deliberatly sarcastic, although in parts it could seem that way, I am just failing to understand.
15. You make it sound as though people only sell thier daughters if they are poor. Girls get into this in many ways, this is just one and I will states a few others.
Give one child up so you have enough to feed the other 3.
Offered work as domestic help.
Gang raped, raped by boy friend, raped by stranger…looses face and can not return toher parents.
Kidnapped.
This is just a few.
16. Legalisation – We are talking about girls as young as 5… we are not talking about the sex industry as a whole. Although I feel there whould be trade union, helth care and other support for those women unfortunate enough to be in that situation, we know it is better for those WOMEN, not girls as we can see in Holland, Australia and Nevada etc.
17. Family planning and womens education – What exactly is this? and what will it achieve. Programmes that exist already for the girls teach them sewing and beading threading, things that might have a nice ethnic feeling, but it does little for them, but it does make people in the west think things are improving for them.
18. If you are referning to anything I do by using the world commando, I do not appeciate it as this is nothing like what I do. Secondly, this situations has been tackled going intothe side as you put in for 10, 20, 30, 40, 50…. 1000 years in some places, yet it is still there. Don’t you think it’s time for a change.
Ryan
7) All that said, I do agree that people in this business are evil. Better to attack from behind and the side instead of the front (commandos…)
This sickens me. As a father and as a human being. Rape in itself is wrong, but when you force children into rape, or sexual slavery it hits a whole new level.
Very much so Jhorseley.
I planted two orphanages in Brasil and worked with many kids who were abused by this type of system. Thanks for pointing this out. Great post.
Thanks gringo, it’s great to see someone doing things to help these poor girls.
Amoralities
The article about child sex slavery in Cambodia is a pack of lies. The usual suspects dredge up these fabricated horror stories and embellish them with even more lies. Why? Because journalists have to come up with sensationalist claims, and reports about child sex slavery sell well, and NGOs need to come up with some fiction to receive millions of more dollars so they can live their wonderful gravy train lifestyle in 3rd world countries fighting injustices. Need some proof? The article below was published in the Cambodia Daily on 20 September 2007. You fact checkers can verify this and see that what has been written about the subject of an epidemic of AIDS in Cambodia was highly exaggerated. Read on:
Article below was published in the Cambodia Daily on 20 Sept 2007. Only 2 years ago there were other articles how a Cambodian government health organization inflated HIV-AIDS rates in order to attract more funding from western donors.
NGO RELEASES ERRONEOUS STATISTICS ON HIV-AIDS
BY EMILY LODISH
THE CAMBODIA DAILY
It would be disturbing to learn that the HIV-AIDS
prevalence rate in Cambodia is the highest in
Southeast Asia. And it would be appalling to know that
an estimated 140,000 Cambodian children will be
orphaned due to AIDS by the year 2010.
In fact, in both snippets of recently publicized
information about the HIV-AIDS situation in Cambodia
are even more shocking because, they are not true.
A Save the Children news release received Monday
included the two erroneous statistics along with two
other incorrect facts: that 164,000 Cambodians are
living with HIV-AIDS and an estimated 51,000 AIDS
orphans are under the age of 15.
Save the Children Australia Country Director Nigel
Tricks apologized for the incorrect figures on
Tuesday, saying they came from his organization’s main
office in Melbourne and had not been updated.
“Cambodia is one of the world’s success stories,”
Tricks said, adding that SCA estimates there are, in
Cambodia, 65,000 people living with HIV-AIDS and 6,000
AIDS orphans are under the age of 15.
Experts agree that Cambodia has achieved marked
success in lowering the AIDS rate in recent years.
According to the National AIDS Authority, the HIV-AIDS
prevalence rate in Cambodia, which has been on a
steady decline since 1998, is the lowest yet at 0.9
percent. There are an estimated 67,200 people over the
age of 15 living with HIV-AIDS and no one quite knows
how many children have been orphaned as a result of
the disease, NAA Secretary-General Teng Kunthy said
Tuesday.
The last time the prevalence rate was 2.6 percent was
at its peak in 1998, and then only in urban areas,
Teng Kunthy said, adding that the prevalence rate
countrywide at that time was 2.0 percent.
Savina Ammassari, UNAIDS monitoring and evaluation
adviser, said Wednesday that Cambodia is one of the
few countries in the world that has begun to actually
turn the tide of HIV-AIDS.
“There is no doubt Cambodia has been successful in
making an important impact. Whether it will be a
lasting impact is not granted unless we continue to
sustain and scale up the response,” she said.
“Achievements could all too easily be reversed.”
Teng Kunthy said Thailand saw a mild resurgence in its
epidemic in recent years, which he attributed to
complacency. UNAIDS said Thailand’s current prevalence
rate is 1.4 percent.
“Success encourages us to continue our work, “Teng
Kunthy said. “We still have a lot of work to do.”
The success is due to increased awareness among
Cambodians, according to Mean Chhi Vun, director of
the National Center for HIV-AIDS, Dermatology and
STIs, who said that 97 percent of Cambodians now know
about HIV-AIDS, even in rural areas.
Ammassari said Cambodia has accumulated remarkably
comprehensive data on a consistent basis, which has
allowed for trends to be identified early and acted
upon.
In some ways, however, the epidemic has only changed
shape, rather than improved. It’s no longer sex
workers in brothels that are the main focus group, but
new target groups—specifically men who have sex with
men, whose prevalence rate in 2005 was 7.8 percent,
and intravenous drug users, according to NAA.
Mean Chhi Vun said that while condom use in brothels
is at a high of 95 percent, Cambodians use condoms
with “sweethearts” or casual acquaintances, only 50
percent of the time.
MACRO, what you provide here is not evidence that the Cambodia story on the sex slave trade as bogus. You bring up a story about AIDS, which has nothing to do with the story.
You cannot blanket every report coming from a country as lies because one had provided mis-information.
In fact, recent reports on the sex slave trade have been coming from the US and Canada. You cannot deny that this is going on. I was shocked when a news report from my own city in Edmonton Alberta, Canada several weeks ago cited charges pending for about 150 young girls that were being trafficked for sex slavery. I was unable to find anything on-line on the case. But if my word isn’t good enough, here is a report from Deborah Gyapong, a NUN in Ottawa:
Human trafficking is a wide-spread social evil and no country is immune including Canada, says an Italian nun whose efforts in Italy have helped set 5,000 women free from the sex slave trade.
Human trafficking is “the new slavery of the 21st century,” said Sister Eugenia Bonetti, who has coordinated anti-trafficking strategies in Rome and Turin.
She uses a team of 200 religious sisters who have opened their homes to young women fleeing captivity.
Sense of guilt
The modern slavery is far worse because it involves the “emptying of the dignity of the person,” leaving the women with no hope, no life and a deep sense of guilt, even though they have been forced into prostitution, said Bonetti.
The globalized market for sexual exploitation has made all countries complicit in the trade as either countries of origin, transit or destination. “No country is safe. We are all included,” she said.
The root cause in countries of origin is “utter poverty,” lack of jobs and gender inequality, she said. Traffickers lure women through promises of jobs because they have no means for survival.
Women and children often cross several countries before they reach their country of destination. The huge profits and low risk make everyone from taxi cab drivers, immigration officials, hotel workers, airport security personnel, landlords and corrupt government officials complicit through cash incentives to turn a blind eye to the problem, she said. The Mafia and other forms of organized crime control the industry.
The root cause in destination countries is the consumer who exploits these women and children for their sexual gratification and sense of power.
“People think that because they can pay, they can buy the body of a minor human being,” Bonetti said, criticizing the empty values and permissiveness of wealthy countries.
She also described trafficking as a “man problem” because as women in western countries have become more emancipated, men have resorted to sexual exploitation as a way of maintaining their sense of control. Many of the exploiters of minors are married men.
Bonetti painted a dire picture of Italy. She estimated some 500,000 women and children are trafficked yearly through European countries, with 50,000 to 70,000 ending up in Italy. “The streets in Italy are flooded with minors, very young girls,” she said.
Ryan, I don’t know who is right, you or David. But I do know that you are rude and seem like a jerk.
Macro, You don’t have a fricken clue do you. Do me a favor go down to Cambodia and Thailand and experience it first hand. I myself have. I’ve seen it, and I’ve even documented it with photographs. I have recently met someone who is from Canada who was kidnapped and taken to a brothel, Raped, torchured, and drugged while being left for dead. Next time you want to make a comment back it up with something better, rather than some article. Do me a favor and think less with you ego and negativity and open your eyes!
Hello,
I am a student in Woodburn High School in Oregon. I am doing a project on “Human Trafficking,” and I really admire all the information you have provided in this text. I really would like to use some of the facts here, I just wanted to know if that’s okay with you?
That would be a great help for me. Please e-mail me back if you have the time. boomchick_13@hotmail.com
Thank you for your time!
Inna Anfilofieff
I sent you an email Inna
how can i help?
do you need money?
where can i send money?
If you’re looking for a site that supposedly has a proven track record where you might be able to help, try this site Louise:
http://www.afesip.org
my god some place the world is. And in this day and age wot can we do by the look of things we better do a hell of a lot more,
This has to be one of the worst you will run across James. Completely de-humanizing, and utterly devastating to the victims.
is any one out there can help i got a friends she been keepnep by some one in vietnam and sell her to combodia how can i find a help oganisation to help me?
from andy wong.
Try contacting the people at this site Andy, hopefully someone there can help you:
http://www.afesip.org
My best wishes for you!
Ryan, I am interested in helping in any way I can. This to me is one of the worst things a man can do. I am a former U.S Marine and I have been looking for a way to help put a stop to the sex trade. I would like to help. I can not access the email so if you could or anyone else could give me further contact info I would really appreciate it. Thank you , Chris email Chrisfati508@yahoo.com
Ryan
I have been asked to explore the subject of Sex Trafficking for a major UK broadcaster, who are planning a series of films on the subject later this year.
I appreciate that a lot of your work with Blood Rose is necessarily confidential. However, if you felt able to at least discuss some of the outline details of what it is your organisation does and has done I would be very interested in talking with you.
I hope we can speak soon.
All best wishes
Jonah
Thank so much to Ryan and Deborah,
It is important that the world knows about this.
I spent a summer in Cambodia 3 years ago. I was so appalled by what I saw when I researched that I decided to write a book to raise awareness. I am currently finishing it and I hope to publish it in not too long as I am eager to contribute.
Being a sex slave is one of the worst things that can happen to a human being. Those men using it should try to put themselves in the girls shoes. I have seen the physical and phychological scars and it is awful.
Let’s try to build a better world.
Thanks Monica, please be sure to contact me once you’ve published your book. Perhaps we can work together to promote further awareness.
Not sure if this was done already, but I would recommend that this article is placed on its own website with posts continuing.
For some that are looking for information, this type of information including the discussion is a great help.
If this was already done, please post a link.
Dmitri, while this is something that I feel very strongly about, I would not have the time to create a website dedicated to that alone. I barely have time just to maintain this blog as it is
the sex slavery still happens in asia and need more attentions from us, no mater how but its must
Deborah I must ask how did you come to the conclusion that ryan flynn was a doctor? did he tell you this or did you assume it from his email address?
now he is claiming that he has never used the email address dr.flynn.r@gmail.com and has never claimed to be a doctor but your contact with him is at odds with that isnt it?
If people are genuinely worried about the asian sex trade, please donate to IJM.
Sean, when he initially contacted me, he used the respective initials for it in signing his name, as well as informing me that he was. When I asked for details, he was evasive. He had asked me not to post anything publicly in reference to him being a doctor.
But I have no idea how you drew this conclusion yourself. Have I missed something that I’ve stated previously in comments?
I was never supplied with the email address that you mention.
Could you please elaborate about IJM?
The google search link to this page has a reference to it including his email address. Your article has definitely change since you first posted it. in the link from today.com (and google) for this story, it still has the old story
http://www.today.com/view/sex-slave-trade-one-mans-mission-for-salvation/id-428123/
“Through his divisions for White Orchid, Blood Rose, Global Energy Bank (GEB), and the Conscientious Traveler (CT), Dr. Ryan Flynn’s project which is currently in the works will provide rehabilitation and schooling on private, self-sustaining islands.”
How else would all these commenters know about ryan if there is no reference to him in the story? you yourself even commented about ryan (replying to someone elses comment).
http://www.ijm.org/ are what ryan pretends to be. They are the real ones saving people from the sx trade in asia.
Thanks for clarifying, Sean.
Yes, I have most definitely deleted everything that pertains to Ryan in this article other than his own comments, once unsolicited information was provided to me about him by numerous people with what appeared to be viable claims that question his authority and background, for which I cannot cite here to protect their identities.
Great lengths were taken by those who sent it to me by several officials. Therefore, I decided not to keep what I had in print for him.
It surprises me to see that his name appears in the link that you provided, as it was only up for a few minutes before his title was changed upon his request.
Thanks so much for the link to the International Justice Mission. It appears that you also know of some things about Ryan based on your comment.
Thanks Deborah
If you still have contact with those people, could you please ask them to contact a friend of mine at http://rfinfo.wordpress.com or rf.info.08@gmail.com with any information of dealings they have with ryan.
Thankyou.
I’ve sent one person an email with a copy of your last comment here, Sean. That’s the best I can do to supply you with any leads. He seemed very well informed.
What is US doing in Afghanistan, Iraq.
I and others read a lot of staling children’s sent to US for sale.
Why war they were sent to US.
I will say it clear to all peoples.
Slaves will not end, it will end if humans end, that is the troth. and you shill tray to stop it. peoples of power and money will fight for ever to keep this slavery.
if the world is smart, it will not tray to stop slavery by battles, but by stopping heavy people from slaving free people.
I write form my country where I saw slaves used to ask people for money, and for sex. most of them are from pore near countries, and the slavers are from there country or Bangladeshi personals.
Ryan,,You are A good Man,,If You can use My help,,just contact Me,,I shoot good and I’m ok at hand to hand combat…You have My email……Randy
Is somali mam the woman from Cambodia running a Center? She is the worst. I was in Cambodia before, met her and visited the center. I was shocked that their were male, Dutch camera crew sleeping at the center with girls. I asked her point blank on the accusations of rape inside her center. she got mad at me…. she is crazy believe me.
The titles of the video links presented at the end of the Cambodia Sex Slaves [EN] You tube video seem inappropriate:
‘nice girl from cambodia upside down’
‘messing around’
‘young girls’
I no you have control over links from you tube, but maybe you should tell them.
The blog is excellent work though!
Western Australia
This is the United States government’s fault. Think about it. United States citizens go to Cambodia to rape children. Cambodia is a very poor country that relatively benefits a great deal from this business. The United States can’t expect the poor country of Cambodia to subsidize raids on brothels out of their own pocket. The United States isn’t rich enough to pay Cambodia to stop this. The United States doesn’t have enough room in prisons to wait for sex tourists to prosecute. The United States government needs to refuse passports to its citizens with known sex crimes to anywhere in the world.
i think these men are pigs and so is the goverment for letting it happen. it makes me sick we need to pull togeather and stop this
I am a private investigator who conducts pro bono surveillance, research, and rescue of men, women and children in Australia who are trapped in the sex slave industry. I have conducted this work during the previous eighteen months. Any person who wishes to contribute information pertaining to potential locations of sites where sex slavery is occurring anywhere in Australia can contact me via email confidentially on: vanishment.inter@hotmail.com
All information gathered will be kept confidential – even from government service providers – unless otherwise stated by the emailee. Any information which the emailee wishes to provide relating to addresses outside of Australia where men, women and children are being kept in the sex slave trade will be treated with the same confidentiality and response.
Any individual who was or still is in the sex slave trade in Australia who are interested in being interviewed for a film documentary by an multi-award winning film director – please contact me via email as well.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you should need assistance to escape from harm. The reported statistics released this year indicate that Australian’s are now the second highest purchasers of sex slave trade in the world (after USA). And each year another 800,000 CHILDREN (these are only the reported statistics!) seem to vanish off the face of the earth! It is anticipated that these statistics are lower than the actual number.
Email me with any information that you feel, and I will look into it without involving the authorities (unless you want them too).
I am suprised Korea isn’t mentioned here. There was a big stink made about the fact that the human trafficking in Korea was targeted to provide girls for U.S. servicemen. Most are called drinky girls or juicy girls because they continually go up to the men in bars and request for them to buy a high priced drink so that they will at a minimum sit and talk with the man. Of course this is the most innocent of the transactions with some of the transactions involving much more. Most of the women and girls come from the Philippines, Russia, and old soviet states.
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I was a sex slave. I lived in terrible conditiona since I was five. I have no trust for men- my life has been shattered. Thank you for bringing this vulgar crime to many people, because people need to know what other girls like me hae gone through. Ang to MACRO, what I went through was real, and nothing is worse than that.
If any one wants to contact me I am availible through email, I’ll answer questions and all.
equinemadmag@gmail.com
Thank you
It is true that in Australia Korean and Chinese girls are now the “In Girl”. Apparently immigration officials scrutinise visas too thoroughly for females travelling from Thailand, Indonesia, the slavic countries, and the Phillipines. Additionally, it is easier to obtain females from Korea and China – although the Chinese government has stepped up their covert police work into the industry since appearing on the international stage (due to the Olympics).
i love it
Ryan is an international conman wanted for internet fraud. He is a disgusting human being who uses our sympathy for these poor girls to make himself rich. Stay away from Ryan Flynn “Roth” and any of his charities the money you donate will go straight into his pocket.
Deborah I’m amazed at this site. What you’re doing is wonderful and it’s really great to see people out there that care about this! Keep up the good work.
Information coming in from federal govt funded organisations is that the number of Australian women being trafficked is on the increase now as well! Women have gone missing and the police are refusing to investigate – brushing it off as a missing persons case. Other women in the sex industry though are reporting the women/children are being trafficked by organised crime to sex slave prevention organisations.
If you have ANY information pertaining to the sex slave industry in Australia or internationally, please do not hesitate to contact me via email on: vanishment.inter@hotmail.com
If you wish to contact me via alternative means (snail mail, telephone, etc), please forward your details to Deborah and I will respond.
How do we help why cant the fbi or the cia or black ops fix they could tae this op out why dont they this should be #1 operations ndplease help me understand
I would pay for oral sex, Buying a prostitute would be awesome. And its only 10 cents, thats a good fuckin deal. Id go there every day
i think its our problem as citizens of earth to tackle this problem truly these young girls lives are shattered i found one a boy would not like my sisters to go through the same things even here in Fiji prostitution is high due some unjust leaders all you need to do is visit the city at night..I will pray for them for God to save their lives for i have nothing to give them but hope..if i had a trillion dollars i would give all the money in the world to help these peoples lives…God be with you all…
I want to become involved full-time. M, 32, English, currently living in China, teaching English.
Mail me. I’m super keen on getting my hands dirty.
Jeff Diskin,
Would you still think it was a “Good Deal” if you were the one being forced to give head to a guy for the measely 10c! 10C which you don’t get to keep of course. Not to mention that the customer can jam his cock right down your throat as many times as he likes. Perhaps your enthusiasm for the conditions would wane if you were forced (through violence) to submit to this behaviour for a week.
how can i help, what can everyone do to change this
they need to go after the traffickers and use their profit to create a facility in every major city where this is happening. so the victims can stay there until their lives are restored and are able to get the support they need. anyone who is involved in this, cops, government officials, taxi drivers, serial killers deserve to have their information, their family information publicized on the internet for everyone to see, so that their families and they themselves would become targets by the caring public. anyone who is directly involved in transporting and abusing these women deserve tortures and death penality. if we implement the death penality too soon, there will be more deaths of young girls who are unable to escape. we need to have FBI with tank size bus to rescue these women from brothels and confinements and place them in the most secure facility for long period of time until the investigation is over. we all need wake up and take our parts in recognizing the victims, call 911, offer secure places for these women, even for a temporarily.
“i think its our problem as citizens of earth to tackle this problem..” lol…get a grip. girls are for fucking. end of story.
i want to help stop the sex slave industry. few know about it and those who do really dont care
Children slaves
Children walk this earth to live and grow
They bring smiles to our hearts and light to out days
We are to love them and protect them
What are they to do when the ones who are to protect them,
Turn away and sell them?
Where are they supposed to go?
What are they supposed to do?
Grown men and women sell their children
Siblings and uncles throw their light away to get little
Children grow up to become stone
A kid still a kid feels like an old husk
A teenage girl feels like the lowest worm on the earth
The world has been cruel to them
Their trust broken across the floor
Their life thrown away like garbage
We want to scream our horror
We want to shout our protests
But we do nothing at all
It seems pointless, a waste of energy
But its not
Everything you do to help helps more than you know
The littlest child may be saved
The crummiest kid may be rescued
The top teen may be taken away from her terror
I will not ask you how you’d feel if it was you
I know full well how you’d feel
Please, Lets help those who need help
It’s our world isn’t it?
We are strong as one and as one we can do something
Compassion, love, and strength
Reach where the society turns away
Grab a hold of what the world throws out
They are our children
They are our future
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jus so they could see how it felt
but i have a 15 year old daughter and i would never want that to happen. and out of all the 32 years i have lived i have never seen or heard anything this horrific.
Last year there was same story but that happened to a wife which was slaved by her own father. They have 3 children together. This is true and happened in Austria. God bless ‘em
I just heard tonight from a friend at church who recently traveled back to Australia from Cambodia, that he believed he recognised that a group of naiive young villagers from Cambodia were going to be taken out of the country to go and “work” in Malaysia. He didn’t know what to do to prevent what he believed was to be slavery from happening. The villagers were told not to speak to foreigners and he didn’t know who to contact to try and prevent it from happening due to the fact that nothing ‘officially had been done as yet’. Any suggestions on where to contact, I suggested perhaps a local church in the arriving city in Malaysia, so they may have more contacts etc to prevent the worst from happening.
We are organising a group of young adults to watch Call and Response http://callandresponse.com/home.html or http://www.callandresponse.com.au/home.html , but these people may still be able to be saved, if details are sent to the right authorities immediately.
Any help and prayers are greatly appreciated.
I call for a rise to arms against these perpetrators, you sit at your computers and type about how you hate these things and how you are happy that others are doing things. You should be doing things . . . your life is as valuable as any of theirs, but you would not risk your life would you? There are those out there, but not enough. Stop griping, stop praying, stop wishing, GET UP AND STOP THIS THING!!! The perpetrator may be the one who is preying, but you are all accessories to this crime if you do not act! Let us unite and kill those who steal the lives of others; let us unite and destroy this thing; Let us Destroy these people! Do not let them live . . . Let them pay.
oh oh I nead this
i have to laugh at all these post about prositution and slavery. and they never tell the truth. it is the colored boy that is selling the young white girls. i have seen it all over the globe.
these women are forced into horrible sex slavery…
but don’t think we don’t have something like it here in the west
western secular culture promotes such a sexual mindset…young women gladly and freely buy and wear very immodest clothes…turning themselves into slaves of sexual immodesty…and men become slaves to their sexual base nature…wake up everyone