Frogwoman do you think this is trafficking?
A Vietnamese girl is working in a bar in Phnom Penh. Every six months she returns home to her village to give money to her family. She has nice clothes and her family now have a new roof and some land. A girl in that village, perhaps widowed, perhaps abandoned perhaps just sick of being poor, sees the girl return to her Village.
She approaches her and asks her how she does it. How she has escaped the poverty of her village. The girl explains she is a hooker in Phnom Penh and can make $30.00 a trick. The village girl asks her to take her with her to Phnom Penh. The hooker agrees. She knows the routes to cross the border, which guards to bribe which guards to fuck. She can give the new girl a place to stay for a few weeks. She can lend her clothes and show her how to put on make up. She knows the bars and can show the new girl how to approach customers.
For this the hooker asks for 20% percent of the new girls profits for say 6 months. The new girl agrees and goes with her.
6 months later, our village girl is now on her feet. She returns to her village and is approached by a village girl .............and so it goes on.
This, according to "anti-trafficking" legislation is trafficking. Do you think that the girls in this story deserve 10 years in prison. ?
This is the mundane reality of so called "trafficking"