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CHILD SEX TRAFFICKING FILM DOCUMENTARY - GIRLS
"Not
My Life," a documentary narrated by Glenn Close about human child
trafficking
September 14, 2011 - "Not My Life" is a documentary about human trafficking and modern slavery . Oscar-nominated filmmaker Robert Bilheimer not only pulls back the curtains of the brothels of Mumbai, India, but also the truck stops of Oklahoma City and finds underage prostitutes in both places, including a young Wichita teenager.
"Not
My Life" bills itself as "the first documentary film to depict the
horrifying and dangerous practices of human trafficking and modern slavery on a
global scale." It depicts, the film synopsis says, "the unspeakable
practices of a multibillion-dollar global industry.” Profits from it, narrator
Glenn Close says, "are built on the backs and in the beds of our planet's
youth."
"More than
100,000 underage girls are trafficked for sex in the United States today,"
Close says in the segment that features Angie, a young teeenage girl from
Wichita who after running away with home with two other girls, found herself
under the control of a pimp in Oklahoma City who threatened to beat or kill her
and her companions if they didn't return with enough money plied through sex
with truckers and other men in a truck stop.
Angie and other
girls, mostly ages 12 to 17, were rescued and 15 pimps and traffickers arrested
in an FBI sting operation code-named Stormy Nights, with a special agent
involved in the operation interviewed in "Not My Life."
Other locations in
the film include
Although trafficking
and slavery involves adult victims, "Not My Life" zeroes in on the
fact that vast majority of the exploited are children.
"What kind of
society cannibalizes its own children?" Bilheimer asks. "Can we do
these sorts of things on such a large scale and still call ourselves human in
any meaningful sense of the term?"