When the doctor saw her, she was in a terrible state. She did not have a single piece of intact skin, and the surface of her skin was covered with bruises from the beating, and she lay on the ground waiting to die. "Malnutrition, burns, many beatings, many wounds on the body ... She didn't live more than 48 hours. The doctor said.
Despite her weakness, her desire to survive was still very strong. When his health improved slightly, he said to the police officer who came to investigate: "Those men madly abused me and beat me, and my 'boyfriend' just watched, completely ignoring my life and death." ”
After listening to her account, the police learned that the girl in front of her, named Elena, was what she called "boyfriend", pretended to love her, and then abducted her in a clever way to sell her to the men.
That is, Elena is really just a victim of transnational sex trafficking, and her "boyfriend" is the beneficiary.
Her miserable life began after she was invited to the UK by her "boyfriend". She thought the man in front of her was a true man who loved her, but in fact he was just a pimp.
After arriving here, whether she secretly called the police or ran away, she did not succeed in escaping. The police often turn a blind eye to such police calls, because there are many similar things, and they have long been surprised.
Faced with this embarrassment, Elena had long been desperate, just living like a walking dead.
There are countless things like this, and boyfriend images are the most common disguise for sex traffickers, who force women to work for them once they make themselves unable to extricate themselves.
"I have to work 15 to 20 times a day, 200 yuan a time, you can think about how much money you can make in a day, and all I get is enough for me to survive, these people take everything from me." 」 Elena said bitterly.
20 jobs is 20 injuries. "When those demons came into the room, I was already numb, and in that painful time, you felt as if you were dead, maybe it was a kind of self-paralysis, but I couldn't think of anything else to do but numb myself." 」
Victims like Elena are on the rise, their passports and bank accounts confiscated, their factories and dormitories guarded by overseers with vicious dogs, and they are beaten and abused when attempts to escape occur.
For example, one victim was once forced to strip naked, soak in medical iodine solution to "disinfect" and be told that if he was restless, his kidneys would be removed.
In July 2019, the British police cracked a major contemporary case of "modern slavery". Eight of the suspects, lured more than 400 homeless and alcoholics from Poland to high-intensity labor in Britain, using lures of lure and free housing.
According to the data, the number of victims of human trafficking is increasing. Worldwide, countries are identifying and reporting more victims, of whom 55 per cent are adult women, 31 per cent are girls and 12 per cent are adult men, and the number of trafficked children is showing a clear increase.
According to the data, we know that there are far more female victims than men, and sexual exploitation remains the main purpose of trafficking. No country has been spared in this global crime, and Eastern Europe is the hardest hit.
In an ideal world, no one would buy or sell another person. The act of humane exchange is always based on reciprocity and kindness to all humanity.
However, that world is not the world we live in. In places we can't see, the real story of human desire and even the extinction of humanity is repeatedly staged, and they are so close and so far away.
In contrast, they all look beautiful. But only by knowing the darkness can we embrace the light. Our prosperity is not based on the suffering of others, and although we are in a time when tragedy is not yet over, we must believe that this can be changed.
