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Around 50,000 women and children are being brought into the United States every year to work as prostitutes or as virtual slaves, according to an unpublished report by the CIA. Among those sold into forced labour are girls as young as nine, it claims. Women who answer advertisements for jobs as au pairs, secretaries or waitresses find themselves forced to work as prostitutes or strippers and some are sold outright to brothel owners, the report says. The women and children are being brought from a variety of countries, with Thailand, Vietnam, China, Mexico, Russia and the Czech Republic heading the list. The report suggests that an increasing number are coming from the Philippines, Korea, Malaysia, Latvia, Hungary, Poland, Brazil and Honduras. There has been a huge rise in the sale of women into servitude because such trafficking is booming in eastern Europe. According to the report, traffickers in the former Soviet Union have been particularly aggressive in taking advantage of young women who are desperate to enter western countries and unaware of what type of work awaits them. Girls as young as nine from Asian and African countries have been sold into slavery in the US "for less than the price of a toaster", according to the survey, the first of its kind. Girls from countries where female children are not highly valued are among the most vulnerable and may be forced to work in what the report describes as "an indentured sexual servitude arrangement". Although the justice department does not have accurate figures, it is estimated that over the last two years prosecutions have been brought in only 250 out of a possible 100,000 cases. In one case last year, involving 70 Thai workers forced to work 20-hour days, the punishments for their seven employers ranged from four to seven years. "These low penalties and the long, complicated and resource-intensive nature of trafficking cases tends to make them unattractive to many United States attorneys," concludes the report by a CIA analyst, which was published by the New York Times yesterday. One problem in prosecuting offenders has been that the women often speak no English and are more frightened of the police than their employers. In addition, such cases often appear to fall between different departments, such as the FBI, the immigration service and the labour department. The women found working in brothels without proper documentation are usually deported rather than allowed to stay and testify against brothel owners or the traffickers, the report says. Among the women and children cited in the report are a Latvian woman who was forced to dance nude in Chicago, Mexican teenagers bullied into servicing migrant workers at a brothel and Chinese-Korean women made to work as indentured labour at such low wages that they could not extricate themselves from the situation. The report says immigration authorities have found evidence of 250 brothels in 26 cities where victims of trafficking are working. Some Nigerian traffickers have profited doubly from the trade, charging parents as much as $10,000 to bring their children to New York for "better educational opportunities" and then selling the children into forced domestic labour. Worldwide, the problem is increasing, the report concludes. It estimates that between 700,000 and 2m women and children are victims of the growing trade in human forced labour.
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