Jamilliah Halley
November 21, 2008
Sold for $12,000: Tackling Child Trafficking in Kyrgyzstan
Mother locked up abroad and two teenage girls without a mother in a strange place. The only thing that they want again is to be with their mother. Rumilya 12 and her older sister Lili 16 were sent to live with care givers when their mother was detained for theft. Rumilya and Lili were ordered to stay with a caregiver. But this caregiver had other ideas for them. THE idea she had was to sell these girls into a life of enslaved sex trade. The care giver got them fake passports and sent them to Dubai. She sold the girls for $12, 000 each. While the girls were in Dubai they turned to drugs and alcohol to cop with the stress of the situation they were in. But no matter how much Rumily drank she could not deal so she attempted suicide by jumping out of the forth story of a building. Although she didn’t die she was arrested for being a commercial sex worker. She ended up being deported back to Kyrgyz. For the next two years she would live at a place that was supported by UICEF. There she got help from psychiatrist and councilors that helped her to believe that she could start her life over. She is now the 19 and the mother of a new born child. She goes back to the UICEF home constantly to help other children that are just like her and she currently got a new position working in the UNICEF house.
http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/kyrgyzstan_46457.html
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