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03/01/04: Factual Aspects FE.1: Prostitution & Slavery: FG.2: Sex Tourism:

Sorry Plight of Baina's Sex Workers
The wretched women from Baina are fighting for their survival but we all question their propriety. Most of these women, mostly born to poor parents, never intended to come to Baina until circumstances forced them to. Some of them, particularly minors and young girls are sent for jobs by parents enticed with stories of greener pastures in Goa by the traffickers (gharwalis) or by men who simply buy the parents with Rs 10,000 or Rs 20,000 as advance for their young girls to work as contract workers. They are then forced into the sex trade. Some of these girls may return to their homes after three months, six months, one year or five years of being in the sex trade. Sometimes with HIV/STD, but always traumatised deep down to their souls. Can these kids of 10 to 15 years ever be the same again when they have lost their childhood in the gallis of Baina to the lust of dirty, filthy men who devour their innocence just because they are born in poor families?
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