No authority??
After watching the sex slavery video from frontline, I couldn’t believe how horrible that business is and how there really is no source of relief for these girls. Where are the police in those countries when some were well aware that all of this was going on?? What was even more disturbing was the fact that some of the police themselves were taking part in this business, whether it was giving information for money or buying a girl for a night. These men should be found and have all of their credentials taken away for the rest of their lives. Throughout the show, there was no positive aspects that could have possibly come out of this problem, except that there were clinics where the girls could have gone to get help when, if, they were ever freed. Why even bother with these places when the country’s own policemen turn their heads at this extremely disturbing issue?
I was glad at the end of the show that Katia was returned back to her family, but I was also upset that Vlad, her original seller, didn’t get any time in prison and that the judge just dismissed is as something that was minor. How can these countries put an end to this business if they themselves dont take the initiative to stop it? Sentencing Vlad would not have caused all of this to stop but atleast it would have put Katia and her husband at ease to know that he was serving time for his crime. I also did feel bad for the girl who decided to go back into the industry to try to help save her brother but was wondering if there could have been any other way to seek treatment and/or recieve money from the government for that accident. I had heard somewhere, but wasn’t sure if it were true, that the victims of the Chernobel accident could get some kind of treatment for cheaper prices, if not completely free, as a way for the country’s government to say sorry?. I dont know if that is true, but I would hope that another, more wealthy country, like the U.S., would look into that, and the sexslave problem, and try to put an end to both of these.
