THIS is an article and person stories related to it. I found one personal story that just shocked me. I really can get over the statistics that the article gives on slavery in modern day England.
Sex trafficking: Locked up and forced to have sex with 20 men a night
"Thippawal, 36, from Bangkok, paid an agency to bring her to Britain for restaurant work in 2008 so she could send money home for her daughter's schooling. But when she arrived in the UK she was locked up and made to work as a prostitute.
"When I got to Heathrow, the man that met me took my passport. He took me to a house in west London and said I had to work as a prostitute. I showed them the contract which said I had to work in a restaurant, but they just laughed. They said if I tried to leave I would die. They made me work 24 hours a day saying I had to pay off my debt to them for bringing me over – which they said was £65,000. I had to have sex with 20 men a night and some of them would hit me.
"I tried to escape three times and when they caught me they stabbed my ankles with a knife. I was never paid. After a month I managed to get out and called the police from a hotel who saw my cuts and bruises but didn't take photos or interview me. So in court, there was not enough evidence. Now my family have been threatened."
Thippawal was sheltered in a safe house by the Poppy Project."
What got me about this story is that she was doing it as a duty as a mother (coming over here to earn money for her child's education) . Somebody exploited her duty and role as a woman , for there own means. This idea of duty is something I'm really finding i have a passion for. Stories like this just make me feel outraged!!!
Tiff
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