Real Stories, Enough Proof?

There have more than enough worldwide human sex trafficking cases coming to the media spotlight, but somehow it is not enough to spark a massive stop. A mass majority of these cases occur in India and Thailand, but little is done to stop more from taking place. Surprisingly, some cases are even happening in our own backyard in America. Could it be that those in charge do not want it to stop? Here are some cases that were lucky enough to be solved and make it into the media.






Shaniya Davis was a young five year old little girl when she experienced sex slavery without a choice. She was visiting her unhealthy and unstable mother for a few days when her entire life was turned upside down in Fayetville, Arkansas. Shaniya's mother was working to get her life back together but it seems as though no positive changes had been made. Her mother allowed a older African American man to come to their house and take Shaniya away for prostiution. There is even a video which surfaced in the news capturing a man carrying Shaniya away in his arms. Shaniya's mother had sold her little five year old child into prostitution. Not too long after police began searching for her, she was found on the side of a road dead and raped.
The picture below this article is quite frankly disturbing and reflects the hardship and abuse women face when their live is consumed with prostituion and abuse.


The picture shows a young girl who was only 13 when she was kidnapped by a women and sold into a brothel in Phnom Penh. The young girl claims she was beaten by the women everyday and shocked with an electric curreny until she cooperated. She was handcuffed and tied up at all times in the brothel besides when she was forced to be with a customer. She started out as a virgin when she first went in and her trafficker stitched her up four times to resell her as a virgin. She says she was beaten multiple times a day and forced to have two abortions from being raped. The trafficker even went as far as to gouging out the young girls eye with a metal prod during her slavery. She will forever live with the phyiscal scars and emotional pain of trafficking.

In Lebanon, a young girl named Silvia ended up in prostitution. She decided to answer a advirtisement for a housekeeping job in Lebanon. Once she got into the fake agency, they stole her passport and she was hired by a Lebanese women who held her hostage and limited her access to food. Treated like a prisoner and forced to prostitute herself, she was beaten and became sick of the treatment. Silva jumped from a tall window and escaped but was permanately paralyzed from the fall. She now goes around the country telling her story and warning other women to beware of trafficking.




In 1997, a young Mexican girl from Mexico was smuggled into the United States by a trafficker who told her she would be working in a restaurant as a waitress for a steady pay. Once she arrived in Florida for her job, she was told by other employees that waitressing was far from what her job would be. The trafficker told her she would be joining a brothel and be forced to become a prostitute. She was beaten, raped, and forced to have sex with random men to pay off her never ending debt owed to the trafficker for smuggling her into the United States. She knew little of the language so it made it difficult for her to ever find help.



In 2006, a male teacher from the United States was caught in Cambodia for raping, beating, and forcing 3 young girls to do what he said while video0-taping the entire act. He had bought them from their own mother for a small price. I was not aware that some countries will allow this to happen. The man was finally caught and sentenced to time.



Recently, a women from Budapest decided to take up a nanny-job she had seen in a newspaper ad in Canada. She spoke with the family who had written the article and they flew her into Canada. Upon her arrival, they told her she would not be babysitting and took her passport. They forced her into stripping and prostitution while stripping her of her passport and any way of recieving help.

The link below is a website containing a video of a survivor of sex trafficking in Cambodia. Her story is inspirational and should help draw attention to the need of stopping the slave trade.

http://vimeo.com/7357726