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SEX SLAVES- SO Easy To Buy a Girl Its Criminal.
"48 hours mystery: Rescued from the Shadows" 10 p.m. CBSIn perhaps a first on TV ~ CBS News correspondant Peter VanSant actually buys a slave on-camera, in tonight's "48 Hours Mystery:Rescused from the Shadows". Van Sant and crew traveled to Romania, among other places, to investigate the billion dollar slave trade, which is flourishing all over the world, and was able to but a young woman within one day of arrival. Yes, buy. To keep. Of course they bought her to rescue her and ensconse her safely in a shelter for women victims of the slave trade. According to the show, "There are more slaves now than at any other time in human history". While that claim seems exaggerated at best, or at least impossible to prove (after all, before our modern age, either a person fell onto the side of conqueroror the conqueror or the conquered, and those who fell into the latter, generally became slaves). the show does stand behind it. Many of them fall victim to flourishing slave trade. Often times lured with promises of jobs, food and shelter, they become trapped as sex slaves, where they are beaten, bought and sold. Van Sant's cameras take us into a middle class area of Queens, N.Y. and into an apartment where young girl's work as sex slaves. (ALthough it is impossible to prove that they aren't there of their own free will.) Most astounding is an interview with a Mexican woman who daughter had been abducted by a criminal slave- dealing family and sold into slavery in the U.S. This woman not only managed to fight the system but get her story told on the front page of the New York Times magazine. Eventually, against all odds, the woman's daughter was found and is now a government witness. Posted by: Andrea Jackson 2005-02-26 |
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