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...gaining girls' trust. In Moldova, known recruiters include the daughter of a village priest and the wife of a policeman. They also routinely use classified ads in newspapers or on the Internet. "Jobs for girls without complexes, $800 a week," read one published not long ago in Makler, the Chisinau newspaper. When a Moldovan reporter disguising her identity called one of these numbers, a woman who identified herself as "Angela" offered work "without intimate relationships" for up to $500 a week, and work "involving intimate relationships," for an undisclosed amount more. Asked about the rumors of forced prostitution or slavery...
...nastier. When Marina, a 25-year-old from Chisinau was met in Budapest by a stocky Bosnian calling himself Ivo, he told her she was too ugly for prostitution and might have to be sold by the kilogram for her organs. Ivo then took her and a friend to a hideaway in northeastern Bosnia and raped them repeatedly over the next two days, introducing them to prospective buyers in the intervals. In Montenegro and Serbia, several women describe being lined up naked in the hotel room where they were held, in a kind of inspection line for slave shoppers...
...traffickers. "The majority of [local police]," a subsequent U.N. report asserted, "are guilty of awareness of the brothels and failure to act." Elsewhere, arrests have been rare. But the absence of resources is also partly to blame. "We have a national plan," says Larisa Miculet, a senior official in Chisinau's chief prosecutor's office. "But we have no money." In Chisinau the vice squad doesn't even have...
...much done for victims who do want to tell their story. In Moldova, women are being returned by U.S.- and European-funded agencies almost weekly. But they receive little protection or support. Marina flew back to Chisinau to give testimony against the recruiter "Angela," as well as the man who raped her in Bosnia. But no sooner had she read her statement at police headquarters than she began receiving threatening phone calls. "If you testify," she said later, "you have to live in fear...
...Meanwhile, back in Chisinau, Tatiana is struggling to piece that life back together. She testified against her captors, including her childhood friend Oxana, but police have yet to make an arrest...