Summary Of Sold By Patricia Mccormick

The first type of abuse discussed includes sex trafficking and forced prostitution. Many would believe that these two types of abuses are one in the same, but they are not. Sex trafficking involves the act of taking a human from one country to another country with the intent to use them for prostitution. Forced prostitution is the act of mentally or physically intimidating a human to perform sex for value. In both of Rath and Meena’s stories, they were forced to sell sex for money that they would not receive. Rath’s story is an example of sex trafficking, as she unknowingly was taken into sex trafficking from her home in Cambodia to Malaysia. Rath believed that she would be working in a Thai restaurant with her friends, but sex traffickers forced them in prostitution in Malaysia. As the term “sex trafficking” has been used

Every minute, 310 girls have been married against their will. Most for the reason because the parents needed money for whatever reason or they were trying to resolve conflicts with other families. 25% of these girls have stopped going to school because of their period. Having periods in these undeveloped countries makes these girls officially a women meaning that most of them will be taken out of school to help out at home. In Ethiopia there are 9 millions girls and if all these girls finish school and go into the working force then it would add $4 billion USD to the economy; more than what the country makes in a year. The author of Sold, Patricia McCormick, was successful in her purpose of explaining to American teenagers how and why the cycle of human slavery present in the brothels exist.

The author talks about being in brothels, massage parlors, street corners, and apartments across the world. Instead of making the book a narrative the author decided to recount a life-altering journey, one that motivated in a newfound mission to contribute to more successful international efforts to abolish sex trafficking and all other forms of contemporary slavery. The author mentions the slavery still exists may surprise some readers, but the practice of violently coerced labor continues to thrive in every corner of every

They are sold by pimps for sex, and the sexual exploiters (or johns) are often given wide latitude in how they treat the victims. Some pimps even allow johns to murder the women and girls for an additional temporary sexual rush. The Lifetime movie, "Human Trafficking", give many disturbing but accurate examples as to how people are lured into forced labor. Throughout the film, there are stories of five girls forced into prostitution. First is Helena from Czechoslovakia. Helena is brought to Vienna by a handsome stranger who says he wants to marry her, and then sells her to traffickers. Second is Nadia from the Ukraine. A modeling agency recruits her and brings her to the U.S. where they turn against her and force her into prostitution. Third is Annie from the U.S. While vacationing in the Philippines with her parents, Annie is lured away from her parents and kidnapped. Finally is Jasmine from the Philippines. She is a member of a very poor family and sold to a trafficker by her father. Although these examples are derived from a film, they are excellent examples as to the many ways young women are coerced into forced labor.

This method of trafficking is displayed in the story of Loreta, a young and pure-hearted girl from Lithuania who was 15 years old at the time her prostitution commenced. When she graduated from foster care, Loreta did not anticipate the dark and twisting route her life would soon advance through.

Because of this situation, victims would rather remain with the reliable danger of their work instead of going into the society beyond the walls of their routine lives. Some girls living in brothels believe that someone will emancipate them or their captors will release them. Unfortunately, this could hold them back from attempting to better their lives on their own. The girls have gotten used to the routine of their present lives, and some see no need to change it. Pushpa, a character in Sold, is one of the women who live in the Happiness House. When Pushpa comes down with the coughing disease, Mumtaz threatens to kick her out since she can no longer work due to her illness. She begs Mumtaz to let her and her children stay because she does not know what the outside world has in store for them. “What is Human Trafficking?” states, “... integration back into society is incredibly difficult because of the shame, stigma, threat of retribution, and trauma experienced during enslavement.” Leaving the life she has become so familiar with scares Pushpa. As for most people, change can be troublesome, especially if one’s life has changed so drastically before. The thought of altering their way of life may frighten some of the victims. Members of the Happiness House cannot depart until they entirely pay off their debt towards Mumtaz. This seemingly impossible task gives the girls the thought that simply staying and suffering would be easier than

Being a joyful, kind hearted, thirteen year old living with her mother, step father, and baby brother on a small poor village in Nepal, Lakshmi has always wanted the best for their family. “‘If I go, you will have money enough for rice and curds, milk and sugar. Enough for a coat for the baby and a sweater for you.’... ‘Enough,’ I say, ‘for a tin roof” (49). Lakshmi expects herself to work in the city like her best friend, Gita. Lakshmi wants to provide for her family and eventually profit enough money to get her family a tin roof. This affects Lakshmi’s life because she goes into the city very motivated by the thought of benefiting her family back home. Thinking of her family and thinking of why she left her home in the first place is eventually one of the only things that keeps her going and pushes her to work harder. Lakshmi expects herself to work and so does her boss, Mumtaz along with a ton of disgraceful men, but they expect Lakshmi to do a different kind of work that has nothing to do with cleaning. “In between, men come. They crush my bones with their weight. They split me open. Then they disappear” (123). At this time, women were a minority and they were all expected to work for men and do as men pleased. Women were bought and sold into prostitution and seen as property. Lakshmi was expected to sleep with every man that came in her direction and if she didn’t follow those rules, she was to be beaten and drugged by Mumtaz. This really affected Lakhmi because being in this situation, which was almost impossible to escape, made her feel hopeless and it made her feel dead inside. Being with all these despicable men had made Lakhmi felt so impure and worthless and she will never forget this dreadful

Sex Trafficking has been a key component in “ degradation of human and women's rights” because they believe that these people are only good for sex (Deshpande Para 1). Often victims who come back, if they ever can, have a hard time adjusting back to normal life. These girls have trust issues towards men, and sometimes even women. They also could have numerous health problems ranging from STD’s to unplanned pregnancy or even worse “ broken bones, concussions, bruises and burns” can all be found on these victims of sexual assault. These girls could also have mental issues, such as anxiety toward older men and women, fear of going outside ever again and social issues. The saddest thing about this is not only are these victims going through a horrible amount of sexual abuse, they also have been ripped away from what they know and may love. Some people believe that women and some men are just objects and they are the ones that are often pimps in the sex trafficking, but this is a completely skewed way of thinking of people.

The people that are taken are victimized in ways that are unimaginable. “ A trafficking victims experience includes severe exploitation, such as abduction, rape, sexual enslavement, forced prostitution, beatings, and starvation” (Squillante 224). This happens to the majority of women that are in the human trafficking trade, as none are taken care of properly and treated worse than if they were animals. Sex trafficking creates “a special evil” which exploit innocent and vulnerable victims predominantly consisting of women (Squillante 224). Women that are depressed

"Sex Slaves" is a documentary about Ukrainian women who are sold in Turkey into the multi-billion-dollar international business of sex slavery. It starts in the city of Odessa, Ukraine, a city in which many people live in poverty, and hence has become a “major hub” for sex traffickers. Traffickers target poor, uneducated girls and lured them with the promise that they will be working abroad in legitimate jobs and making big money but as soon as they arrive in Turkey they are sold to pimps. This documentary shares testimonies of those who were once trapped in this business along with live, secret footage from actual traffickers and testimonies from convicted traffickers. According to some of the victims, they were promised they will be release

Imagine a four year old girl growing up in contemporary Cambodia. Each morning she wakes up miles from home, homesick and scared. She is forced to beg for money for the brothel that she belongs to, and all of her earnings go straight to her master. Then, that night, about seven men come to the brothel. These men, some as old as fifty, often pay as little as two dollars to partake in sexual intercourse with these school-aged children. The toddlers enslaved in the horrific sex trade are forever stripped of their purity, making human trafficking a major issue in present day Cambodia. Over 30,000 children are sexually exploited annually (“Children for Sale”), and millions have been forced into human trafficking

In the movie “Sold”, we watch a once young and hopeful girl turned into a sex slave who is beaten, drugged, and raped every day. How does this happen, and so quickly? People like Mumtaz and Bimla are wired to manipulate families into giving up their children, and sadly for some families it may not be a difficult decision. The level of poverty in places like India and Nepal are beyond the understanding of most people in America, especially those living in the middle and upper classes. By our values, selling a child is the most awful thing we can do; but in places like India, who don’t have the same welfare programs we do, starvation of the whole family is much worse. Family structure is also much different here than other countries. Here,

Girls ages 14-17 were forced into work as domestic servants but it wasn’t uncommon to find many girls as young as 8 or 9 years of age (“Incidence and Nature of Child Labor” 2). Many of these children typically worked a 12-16 hour day and seven days a week (“Incidence and Nature of Child Trafficking” 2). This evidence shows this crisis is on the rise and as the years go by the children are getting younger and younger.

“43% of victims are used for forced commercial sexual exploitation, of whom 98% are women and girls” (UNGIFT). Women and girls are ensnared in sex trafficking in a variety of ways. Some are lured in with offers of real and legal work in restaurants, massage parlors, or anything else. Others are promised marriage, education and a better life. Still others are sold into trafficking by boyfriends, friends, neighbors or even parents (SOROPTMIST). Many of the girls and women are also forced into pornography. With all of the types of sexual exploitation comes abuse. Sexual, physical, and emotional are all types of abuse put onto females in human trafficking. Many people traffic others in hopes of getting money, work done, or just pure pleasure.

Sold is a story about a thirteen-year-old Lakshmi who is tricked into thinking she will be working as a maid in the city to support her poor family. She travels from Nepal to India, where she finds the truth that she has been sold into prostitution.