Transgenders Fall Victim to Sex Trafficking in Brazil
The past few years I have learned that nobody is safe from sex trafficking. Traffickers will target anybody if they can get money out of it, and transgender women are no exception. In 2019, Brazilian police brought down a sex trafficking ring that hand been targeting transgender women for six years. The police launched numerous raids and discovered 38 transgender women in Brazilian hostels. These individuals were lured by traffickers with the promise that they would help them pay for their sex change surgeries, but once ensnared, they were forced to serve as sex slaves, obstinately to pay for their "surgeries," and were subjected to physical and psychological abuse if they failed to meet their quota.
Under Brazilian Law, prostitution is legal, but sexual exploitation is not. Brazil needs to change this and start making prostitution illegal as well. I have learned that the line between prostitution and sexual exploitation is seldom clear, and all too often, most prostitutes are being sexually exploited, but are too fearful to confess this. Though dozens were saved, for two of the victims, the rescue came too late. Police discovered that one of the victims was murdered for failing to pay their debt, and another died as a result of a botched surgical operation.
Traffickers only care about making money, and they'll target anyone in the world if there's a profit in it for them. As of now, police suspect that there are still some traffickers of this particular racket operating the dark shadows of Brazil, and there could very well be other victims who have also lost their lives to this horrific practice.
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Under Brazilian Law, prostitution is legal, but sexual exploitation is not. Brazil needs to change this and start making prostitution illegal as well. I have learned that the line between prostitution and sexual exploitation is seldom clear, and all too often, most prostitutes are being sexually exploited, but are too fearful to confess this. Though dozens were saved, for two of the victims, the rescue came too late. Police discovered that one of the victims was murdered for failing to pay their debt, and another died as a result of a botched surgical operation.
Traffickers only care about making money, and they'll target anyone in the world if there's a profit in it for them. As of now, police suspect that there are still some traffickers of this particular racket operating the dark shadows of Brazil, and there could very well be other victims who have also lost their lives to this horrific practice.
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