Where Sex Trafficking Survivors Go

Brut India

Imagine being a teenager, waking up in a strange room, and hearing someone say, "I've sold you." Survivors of sex trafficking describe their awful childhood and adolescence.

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00:00He will speak and beat.

00:02He will beat where?

00:03Only on the leg.

00:04He will beat on the leg, on the arm, here and here.

00:09He will beat on the back, here and here.

00:11In these four places.

00:12They say, they took you to Delhi.

00:14I said, why did they take me?

00:16Here, they sold you.

00:30I was forced to do all this.

00:37If I didn't do it, they would have killed me.

00:39Because in front of me, a lot of girls.

00:42I mean, they killed me.

00:45I mean, they killed me like this.

00:47I can't say that.

00:49I mean, I feel bad saying it.

00:53But I have to say it.

00:55The customer couldn't help me.

00:57But he said, your owner took the money.

01:02So I have to work.

01:04So I couldn't work with him.

01:07Because he was much older than me.

01:10Then when customers came, I had to work.

01:14All day.

01:16All day?

01:17Yes.

01:18How many customers did you have?

01:22I can't say that.

01:28How many customers did you have?

01:3914, 15, 17.

01:42I don't remember my mother's story.

01:44Because she took me to the police station.

01:57She took me to the police station.

02:04When she took me to the police station.

02:07At first, she didn't keep me with her.

02:10She gave me to someone to raise me.

02:13When I was 5 to 4 years old.

02:18Then she took me to her house.

02:20She kept me at her house.

02:22She did all the housework.

02:24She cleaned the house.

02:26She did all the housework.

02:28And then she tortured me.

02:30One day, she told me.

02:32She told me to go to Diamond Howard.

02:35I was very happy.

02:37I had never seen Diamond Howard in my village.

02:40I was very happy to hear the name of the big sea.

02:43I trusted her.

02:45Because I had been with her twice.

02:47I ate with her.

02:49I told her that I will come back in a day.

02:52She said, yes.

02:53I told my parents that I will go.

02:56I went to a hotel.

02:58They gave me a samosa.

03:00I was very happy.

03:02They rented a taxi.

03:04I asked them where I was going.

03:08They said, we are going.

03:10We will come back.

03:12When I went to the hospital with my sister-in-law.

03:15She went to the hospital to see a doctor.

03:19I was sitting outside.

03:21A boy saw me.

03:23He said, I can't go.

03:25He said, come here.

03:27I said, I am going.

03:29He said, you are bleeding.

03:31I said, I am going.

03:33He put a handkerchief on my face.

03:35Then I fainted.

03:37My sister-in-law was very desperate.

03:41She said, I don't want to go.

03:44She said, she will find a way.

03:47I tried to run away three times.

03:49I tried to run away three times.

03:51But I couldn't.

03:53My sister-in-law was very desperate.

03:55The new girls who came there.

03:57They made me drink.

03:59They made me drink.

04:01They tortured me.

04:03I didn't like it.

04:05They tortured me a lot.

04:07Then they forced me to do all this.

04:10If I didn't do it, my sister-in-law would have thrown me out.

04:13Many girls in front of me.

04:15My sister-in-law threw me out.

04:17I didn't know what to do.

04:19I don't know what to do.

04:21Everyone was in front of me.

04:23In front of the customers.

04:25We were in front of the customers.

04:27They were beating us.

04:29We were in pain.

04:31We were in pain.

04:33I was seven years old.

04:35I was seven years old.

04:37They tortured me a lot.

04:39They put peppers in my eyes.

04:41They ate green chilies.

04:43They tied my hands.

04:45I used to tell them that they had four granddaughters and six granddaughters.

04:50I used to keep them at home, but my husband used to cry.

04:54I used to think that I am just like them, a small child.

04:57If I can take care of them, why can't I take care of myself?

05:16I used to feel very bad.

05:19If I had my family, they would come to me and ask me questions.

05:25I used to feel this way.

05:27I came home after 18 days of being in the hospital.

05:30When I got home, I was not feeling well.

05:33I couldn't walk properly.

05:35I couldn't even go outside.

05:38I didn't like talking to anyone.

05:40I felt so lonely.

05:42I don't like talking to anyone. I feel very uncomfortable.

05:46Now I am working in a good organization.

05:49Now my life is very good.

05:51Now I want to move forward.

05:53But I can't.

05:55My boss tortured me so much.

05:58My singing problem is gone.

06:01I can't move forward because of my singing problem.

06:12I wanted to be a teacher.

06:27I wanted to be a teacher.

06:29I wanted to learn karate.

06:31I wanted to be a master.

06:33I had two dreams.

06:35But I couldn't achieve them.

06:37I was very young.

06:39I didn't understand much.

06:41I wanted to study.

06:43I didn't understand.

06:45If I hadn't come here,

06:47my life wouldn't have been like this.

06:49I would have had a better life.

07:11Now I want to live like before.

07:21I have a dream of becoming a fisherman.

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