Imagine being a teenager, waking up in a strange room, and hearing someone say, "I've sold you." Survivors of sex trafficking describe their awful childhood and adolescence.
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00:00He will speak and beat.
00:02He will beat where?
00:03Only on the leg.
00:04He will beat on the leg, on the arm, here and here.
00:09He will beat on the back, here and here.
00:11In these four places.
00:12They say, they took you to Delhi.
00:14I said, why did they take me?
00:16Here, they sold you.
00:30I was forced to do all this.
00:37If I didn't do it, they would have killed me.
00:39Because in front of me, a lot of girls.
00:42I mean, they killed me.
00:45I mean, they killed me like this.
00:47I can't say that.
00:49I mean, I feel bad saying it.
00:53But I have to say it.
00:55The customer couldn't help me.
00:57But he said, your owner took the money.
01:02So I have to work.
01:04So I couldn't work with him.
01:07Because he was much older than me.
01:10Then when customers came, I had to work.
01:14All day.
01:16All day?
01:17Yes.
01:18How many customers did you have?
01:22I can't say that.
01:28How many customers did you have?
01:3914, 15, 17.
01:42I don't remember my mother's story.
01:44Because she took me to the police station.
01:57She took me to the police station.
02:04When she took me to the police station.
02:07At first, she didn't keep me with her.
02:10She gave me to someone to raise me.
02:13When I was 5 to 4 years old.
02:18Then she took me to her house.
02:20She kept me at her house.
02:22She did all the housework.
02:24She cleaned the house.
02:26She did all the housework.
02:28And then she tortured me.
02:30One day, she told me.
02:32She told me to go to Diamond Howard.
02:35I was very happy.
02:37I had never seen Diamond Howard in my village.
02:40I was very happy to hear the name of the big sea.
02:43I trusted her.
02:45Because I had been with her twice.
02:47I ate with her.
02:49I told her that I will come back in a day.
02:52She said, yes.
02:53I told my parents that I will go.
02:56I went to a hotel.
02:58They gave me a samosa.
03:00I was very happy.
03:02They rented a taxi.
03:04I asked them where I was going.
03:08They said, we are going.
03:10We will come back.
03:12When I went to the hospital with my sister-in-law.
03:15She went to the hospital to see a doctor.
03:19I was sitting outside.
03:21A boy saw me.
03:23He said, I can't go.
03:25He said, come here.
03:27I said, I am going.
03:29He said, you are bleeding.
03:31I said, I am going.
03:33He put a handkerchief on my face.
03:35Then I fainted.
03:37My sister-in-law was very desperate.
03:41She said, I don't want to go.
03:44She said, she will find a way.
03:47I tried to run away three times.
03:49I tried to run away three times.
03:51But I couldn't.
03:53My sister-in-law was very desperate.
03:55The new girls who came there.
03:57They made me drink.
03:59They made me drink.
04:01They tortured me.
04:03I didn't like it.
04:05They tortured me a lot.
04:07Then they forced me to do all this.
04:10If I didn't do it, my sister-in-law would have thrown me out.
04:13Many girls in front of me.
04:15My sister-in-law threw me out.
04:17I didn't know what to do.
04:19I don't know what to do.
04:21Everyone was in front of me.
04:23In front of the customers.
04:25We were in front of the customers.
04:27They were beating us.
04:29We were in pain.
04:31We were in pain.
04:33I was seven years old.
04:35I was seven years old.
04:37They tortured me a lot.
04:39They put peppers in my eyes.
04:41They ate green chilies.
04:43They tied my hands.
04:45I used to tell them that they had four granddaughters and six granddaughters.
04:50I used to keep them at home, but my husband used to cry.
04:54I used to think that I am just like them, a small child.
04:57If I can take care of them, why can't I take care of myself?
05:16I used to feel very bad.
05:19If I had my family, they would come to me and ask me questions.
05:25I used to feel this way.
05:27I came home after 18 days of being in the hospital.
05:30When I got home, I was not feeling well.
05:33I couldn't walk properly.
05:35I couldn't even go outside.
05:38I didn't like talking to anyone.
05:40I felt so lonely.
05:42I don't like talking to anyone. I feel very uncomfortable.
05:46Now I am working in a good organization.
05:49Now my life is very good.
05:51Now I want to move forward.
05:53But I can't.
05:55My boss tortured me so much.
05:58My singing problem is gone.
06:01I can't move forward because of my singing problem.
06:12I wanted to be a teacher.
06:27I wanted to be a teacher.
06:29I wanted to learn karate.
06:31I wanted to be a master.
06:33I had two dreams.
06:35But I couldn't achieve them.
06:37I was very young.
06:39I didn't understand much.
06:41I wanted to study.
06:43I didn't understand.
06:45If I hadn't come here,
06:47my life wouldn't have been like this.
06:49I would have had a better life.
07:11Now I want to live like before.
07:21I have a dream of becoming a fisherman.