{"id":5197,"date":"2011-05-26T19:18:16","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T23:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=5197"},"modified":"2013-05-31T18:33:48","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T02:33:48","slug":"india-brothel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/india-brothel\/","title":{"rendered":"Into an India Brothel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"HumanFive girls were recently rescued from an India brothel, thanks in part to the work of the International Justice Mission<\/a>. One of them was five years old. Another was ten, and was rescued from the brothel right at the time that her pimp was negotiating her sale for the very first time.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Unicef<\/a> has estimated that worldwide 1.8 million children enter the sex trade each year. Too many are in the United States, which should prosecute pimps much more aggressively, but the worst abuses take place in countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Cambodia.<\/p>\n

So I set off with the I.J.M. investigator (who wants to remain anonymous for his own safety) into the alleys of the Sonagachi red-light district one evening, slipped into the brothel, and climbed to the third floor. And there were Chutki and three other girls in a room, a pimp hovering over them. Perceiving us as potential customers, he offered them to us.<\/p>\n

We demurred but said we\u2019d be back.<\/p>\n

The Kolkata police agreed to raid the brothel to free the girl. I.J.M. told them the location of the brothel at the last minute to avoid a tip-off from police ranks. The police casually asked us to lead the way in the raid since we knew what Chutki looked like and where she was kept.<\/p>\n

So along with a carload of police, we drove up to the brothel and rushed inside to avoid giving the pimps time to hide Chutki or to escape themselves. With the I.J.M. representative in the lead, we hurtled up the stairs, brushed past the pimp and found Chutki and the three other girls in the same room where we had seen them before.<\/p>\n

Two female social workers from I.J.M. immediately began comforting Chutki, who police said was about 15 and looked terrified. They explained that this was a police operation to rescue her, and they helped her put on a robe for modesty\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n

Then another of the girls in the room asked if she could be rescued \u2014 but a few days later. She explained that if she left now, the brothel-owners would blame her for the raid and possibly harm her grandmother, whose address they knew.<\/p>\n

We told the girl that this chance might not come again. She dissolved into tears, wavered and then decided to come out. Then a third said that she wanted to escape as well.<\/p>\n

The girls tipped off the police that the brothel-owner was in another building, arranging to sell a new girl named Raya for the very first time, either that evening or the next night. The police hurried off and returned with Raya, a wide-eyed girl of about 10 years.<\/p>\n

It seemed that the brothel had purchased Raya just a week earlier, after her own brother-in-law tricked her and trafficked her. If the raid had been delayed by a few hours, she might have faced the first of many rapes.<\/p>\n

With Raya was a 5-year-old girl who seemed to have been abandoned. Perhaps the brothel-owners were grooming her for sale in a few more years. So we emerged from the brothel with five lives that had just been transformed.<\/p>\n

Equally important, one pimp had been arrested and arrest warrants had been issued for two more. There are no quick fixes to human trafficking, but experience in several countries suggests that prosecuting pimps and brothel-owners makes a difference. A study in Cebu, Philippines, found that helping police and courts target child prostitution resulted in 87 arrests over four years \u2014 and a 79 percent reduction in the number of children in the sex trade.<\/p>\n

We drove the five girls to a police station to fill out paperwork so that they could move into shelters and receive schooling or vocational training. Raya, the 10-year-old who otherwise at that moment might have been enduring her first rape, was giggly and carefree as she pretended to drive the car. She behaved like a silly little girl \u2014 which was thrilling.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nTo learn more about Human Trafficking and sex slavery, check out some of these posts:\r\n

Human Trafficking Posts<\/h2>\r\n
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  1. Sex Slaves<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  2. Would You Fight Slavery?<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  3. Rescue Russian Sex Slaves<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  4. Rescue Russian Girls from Sex Slavery<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  5. Stop Her Nightmare<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  6. Another Girl Rescued Today<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  7. Girls for Sale<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  8. Goal Reached!<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  9. I Want to be a Prostitute<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  10. $52,000 raised!<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  11. 31 Million Sex Slaves<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  12. Renting Lacy<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  13. More Than Rice<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  14. Human Trafficking Ring Busted<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  15. The Other Big Game<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  16. Sex Slavery, Planned Parenthood, and Your Tax Dollars<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  17. How to Minister to Prostitutes<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  18. Wisconsin Woman Held as Sex Slave in Brooklyn<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  19. Coked-Up Whore<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  20. Human Trafficking has Many Faces<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  21. Into an India Brothel<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  22. You Need a Girl?<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  23. Human Trafficking Media<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  24. The Son of God is Selling Children<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  25. My Girls Raised $300 to help stop Human Trafficking<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  26. Rape for Profit<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  27. Human Trafficking Statistics<\/a><\/li>\r\n\t
  28. Help Rescue Girls from Forced Prostitution<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\n
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