If a victim of human trafficking wanted to escape from her captor there is virtually no social system set up to help her - and of course there is always the fear that if caught the perpetrators will be allowed back on the street again. |
They arrive as illegal immigrants and are forced to work in the sex trade and are regularly subjected to physical and psychological violence with trafficking gangs keeping most, if not all money earned. |
When we found her she had been locked up in jail for months, pregnant and without any papers. No authority even bothered to ask her age or identity. |