Frontline: Sex Slaves

This is one of the most disturbing documentaries I have seen, but I am grateful to the folks who made it. The Director also particpated in an online chat hosted by the Washington Post:

... (The) PBS Frontline film "Sex Slaves," which follows a husband's efforts to track down his 21-year-old wife, who was sold into sexual slavery for $1,000 by a man who promised a trip to buy goods in Turkey. Katia (last name withheld) and her husband Viorel were four months pregnant when she was taken. She was one of the many women kidnapped and sent to places like Europe, the Middle East and the United States, where they are often "owned" by violent pimps, repeatedly raped, beaten and sold to other buyers. Viorel's search leads him to Vlad, the man who originally sold his wife, and into the heartbreaking world of other women who are sex slaves. A 28-year-old Ukrainian native, Oksana, was sold 13 times during her captivity and recalls being held in a cramped apartment with other women, one of whom sought help from the authorities only to be exploited by policemen.

Please check your local listings and watch this truly great film. The U.S. State Department has an Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons: contact your local legislator to lobby for extra funding for this agency.