Our team in India received a tip from law enforcement: we have reason to believe that women are being held in a rural hotel and trafficked for sex.
When we investigated the site, we found out that police suspicions were true: we found three young women from Bangladesh and one girl who was still just a teenager.
There is a common misconception that once a potential victim of sex trafficking is identified, they can be removed immediately. In reality, processes exist to make sure that the case is pursued in a way that will hold up in a court of law. This is the only way to shift the criminal industry of trafficking systemically. Unfortunately, those processes take time.
But our team is patient. They have been part of enough cases to know that freedom is worth the wait.
They kept an eye on the hotel until law enforcement officials had all the pieces in place to act. Their patience paid off when officers stormed the hotel, freeing the three women and teenage girl. They arrested the trafficker who had been holding them captive. Because he was trafficking a child, the perpetrator is in jail without the option of bail.
Waiting for justice can be difficult to endure. Our India investigators are no strangers to waiting out discomfort to make sure that kids like this girl from Bangladesh are never sold again.
Now is your chance to support them, ensuring that they can persist in disrupting the darkness of sex trafficking!
Children like Camila are waiting to be freed.
This Giving Tuesday, will you join us so that we can find and free more children who are being trafficked right now? The Exodus Road works closely with authorities and social workers to recover and provide care to girls like Camila.
