Trafficking: the First Breakthrough
“Having read through the brief again and again, it was devastatingly clear that Puongtong Simaplee had died without reason. There was no doubt she was vulnerable. Court documents show that before her detention she had a heroin addiction, was homeless and, in the words of an older friend, was ‘not in a positive state of mind.’ She was so physically underdeveloped that detention officials ordered a medical examination to establish if she was male or female. Her arms were marked by scars. (Her boyfriend told police that she marked herself when she did something wrong so she could remember why she did it.)…Puongtong Simaplee also told immigration officials that she had been trafficked as a child. But these things shouldn’t have killed her. She had survived 27 years, many of them hard, but it wasn’t until she entered an Australian government institution that she died.”
http://apo.org.au/commentary/trafficking-first-breakthrough
Against Their Will
“In a society that is still struggling to understand the mechanics of psychological and other violence against women, many people find it hard to match their idea of what sex trafficking looks like with the experiences of women actually living in such situations. Very few victims of trafficking are forcibly restrained by their traffickers.”
http://newmatilda.com/2008/07/28/thanks-sex-slaves-now-get-lost
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