Topic > Sister Ping: A Woman Trafficking Empire - 2094

– friends, family, acquaintances, and sometimes boyfriends. Some men deliberately befriend vulnerable young women, pretend to be their boyfriends and then sell them into prostitution. This was accurately depicted in the Swedish film Lilya 4-Ever, in which a boyfriend sells her, and in the Indonesian film, Chants of Lotus, in which a middle school student is trafficked by a family friend.48 In India, touts of brothels seek out lost children, befriend them, and sell them into prostitution.49 In the Cadena case, in the southern United States, a group of underage girls were entrusted by family members to a known family from their community in Veracruz . The parents were assured that the girls would work with the families as domestic workers, a story that seemed credible to their families, as many young Mexican girls travel to the United States for work. The girls only realized that their situation was different when they crossed the border between Mexico and the United States and were taken to a store to try on