Ukrainian Girls Sold Into Sex Slavery
This last piece is one of the most disturbing, and cries out for a more thorough investigation. More than 15,000 Ukrainian girls are sold into sex slavery every year. Here in Los Angeles, we see the results of this trade -- for a period of months, young, beautiful girls were turning up dead in dumpsters, as the factions of the Russian Mafia fought for control over the slave trade.
This team managed to get interviews with girls who had escaped. One girl talks about how she had been sold for $300. They took her clothes, and she was locked in a room. She managed to pry the window open and ran naked through snowdrifts to escape.
Most girls aren't so lucky. They are recruited from small towns throughout Ukraine, with promises of modeling or singing careers. Then these naive girls find out that they're being shipped to whorehouses, where they are locked up and fed drugs to keep them docile. The problem is hard to get a handle on, because of the shame these girls feel, not wanting to admit what they had to do to survive -- and to the fact that their captors will kill them and their entire families if they do blow the whistle.