A sample from chapter 3 - Trafficking. Go buy your Christmas gifts from Amazon today
When Ellen was 17 she was abducted by a group of men in Albania and taken to a flat where she was held for two months. During this time she was beaten and raped. Then a man came and made arrangements for them both to go abroad. At the time Ellen thought she had been rescued, but her new “boyfriend” was another trafficker who took her to the UK where he forced her into prostitution. She had to see between 15 and 40 customers a day and give the money to her trafficker. When she tried to refuse, she was beaten.
After about a year she was picked up in a police raid. She did not say anything to the police because her trafficker had told her not to and she was worried about getting her family into trouble. She was held at Heathrow airport for two days, while immigration officers arranged to have her sent back to Albania. No arrangements were made for her to be seen by an NGO in the UK or after she arrived back in Albania.
Ellen went back to live with her family, but received threatening phone calls in the early hours of the morning. Her family wanted her to go to the police, but Ellen did not trust the police in Albania. Concerned for herself and the safety of her family she decided to let the traffickers take her back to the UK. A few months after she was trafficked to the UK for the second time, she managed to escape from her trafficker. She made an application to stay in the UK, but this has been rejected by the Home Office.
That’s so horrible! Has she been helped yet? It’s so stupid that some people stay at home eating ice cream when this is happening outside their back door. Everyone can do something, even if it’s just showing you support, like on here…