Indonesian Woman Falls Victim to Human Trafficking in US
Summary:
Shandra Woworuntu, a former bank analysts immigrated to the United States from Indonesia in 2001. When she arrived in the U.S. her passport and identification cards were taking and she was transported to a brothel in Connecticut that was isolated from any neighbors. Shandra was forced to perform sexual favors for strangers 24 hours a day and was moved between brothels in New York City and Connecticut. Shandra finally escaped by jumping from a second story bathroom window while in Brooklyn but then was forced to survive without any money or a place to live. She finally met someone who introduced her to the law enforcement and then she was referred to the Safe Horizon, which is a assistance agency that aid those who are victims of human trafficking.According to The Alliance to End Slavery and Trafficking agency there's approximately 14,000 to 17,000 women and children being trafficked into the United States each year to work in brothels, as prostitutes, and in bars as sex slaves.
Analysis:
This article reflects a new form of organized crime that is very profitable for those who run the brothel's and sex trafficking rings. Human trafficking has become a new form of slavery that in this case brings in slaves from other countries in promises of a better life and opportunity, but once the immigrants arrive they are receive the exact opposite and revokes their human rights. This modern day slavery mainly involves minority women and children, a marginalized group, as the victims and men, the dominant group as the captors. Although there are agency who are working to end human trafficking there are still thousands of people being trafficked into the United States in the new area of organized crime only leaving me to think that a end to human trafficking is no where in the near future.
Article:
http://en.tempo.co/read/news/2014/02/01/074550170/Indonesian-Woman-Falls-Victim-to-Human-Trafficking-in-US
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