Sex Trafficking - Part 2

The group from Grace Church that went to India this last week have returned and hopefully will be posting some of their thought over the next few weeks for now here are some excerpts from  Arielle's emails home.

" We just got back from touring the brothel district in Mumbai. Let me just say, everything you have heard from Debbie Walker from Freedom Firm or Linda Smith from Shared Hope International... it's all true. Stall after stall line the filthy roads and everywhere there are girls... young girls... lining the streets, waiting for customers. It is insane to think that this is allowed and even condoned by many in this day and age, but it is deplorable when you see it for yourself. Praise God for groups like the Freedom Firm who are risking everything to give some of these girls a better future."

"Please be praying for the Freedom Firm team tonight. The undercover operatives are going out tonight to conduct a raid. They received word a few days ago that there are 4 or more new minor girls located in a brothel in Pune, India (the city we are in). They are on their way to meet the police and hopefully get these girls out tonight. Physical

protection and the cooperation of the local authorities are a must for this to work. There are 3 under cover operatives, a director, and 2 female social workers on the team. Please pray it will be successful!"

Sadly, the raid was not successful, the brothel operators hurried the girl that was there out the back and will have trafficked her to another city. I wish someone would make a movie about the men and women who risk a lot to enter brothels and try to remove these girls right of the hell that is their life as a sex slave. Of course the ending might not be as neat as a scriptwriter would like. Rescue is great but the girls face the painful reality that their lives are irreparably changed and most can not go back to their families, villages or even have an expectation of marriage.