How hard is it for a victim to escape?
Usually the girls and young women are discovered by police during raids on private apartments, houses and other locations where the victims are forced to work. In a handful of cases, the trafficked individuals escape on their own, but this is rare because they are imprisoned and closely guarded. They are told that if they escape they will be killed, their families murdered and, if they go to the local police, they will be deported back to their host country under a cloud of shame. Those who do escape have been so brutalized that they experience life-long psychological trauma, and, according to psychologists, only 30 percent fully recover to live a normal life.
