But despite laws against slavery in all of the world's countries, modern-day slavery continues to thrive in illegal underground forms. Search Search. Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan Uzbekistan. Armenia Azerbaijan Georgia. Belarus Ukraine. Previous Next. August 23, GMT. By Ron Synovitz. The recruiters who originally promised her a high-paying salary were men who posed as representatives of a legitimate employment agency.
Maria says they gained her trust because they looked professional and persuasive. Everything looked fine. There were two other girls with me. They were from the same region, but I didn't know them.
I was going [to Italy] to work as a housekeeper. In Ukraine, they told me already that I would work either as a housekeeper or work in a bar washing dishes," Maria said. Maria says her nightmare began after she and the other women arrived in Italy and were met by several suspicious men.
They were human traffickers in the illegal global sex industry. They took us to a building on the outskirts of the city and they told us to clean off, to relax from the travel. Later, they confronted us with the fact that we would be providing sex services. It is a shock for a human being.
Escape from there was impossible. The windows were barred and there was the constant presence of a guard," Maria said. One man in the building told Maria he had "bought" her for several hundred dollars.
