Through a known person, a friend, I was offered a job abroad in Europe. I was deceived and he promised me a good and stable salary. 2000 euros, 1800-2000 euros. I let myself easily get off this temptation and decided to try. I was deluded and came to another country. When I got there, I was told, "Look, you have to pay back a certain amount that has been spent with you on the road and you have to work on the path of prostitution." He said I had no way back. I was locked up, maltreated very ugly.
In a house. Good conditions were, but we did not see the outside light and the air did not breathe it
I was alone. My cousin went with me. We both left and both were separated, in that country we were separated
I was forced to provide sexual services, even through beatings, threats.
[The beatings meant] Something painful, unexplainable ... Beat, even in the direct sense of the word.
The people [beat me], the so-called fish, who got me there.
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Many [clients were brought to her], no number. They were really clients. I did not have a little rest.
[They knew] Nothing [of her situation]. I was stranger there. They were strangers to me.
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I learned the language later. At first through gestures, through mimics we were communicating. Then I learned, easy and easy, my language.
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Like any man who wants to do his pleasure. They are very quiet and, when the girl does not want to do so, they feel very hard. Sometimes, without taking my money back, they were leaving and saying they understand me. Some were trying to get into the situation. Others, on the contrary, were more brutal after telling my story.
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The number of clients I had per day was good.
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It was 50 euros for the customer. I had 80-100 customers, maybe even more a day.
I can say that [the money made me] both happy and unhappy. Happy because I was making so much money and I could help my mother, help my family. Because they promised me that at the end of the work, they would give me all the money, when I said I did not want to work anymore, that I wanted to go home. But on the one hand, I was sleeping with tears, how much pain I was getting all day, how much suffering. And I was saying she'd give her money, so I could get away. I could not escape anyway.
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We did not consider them nights because we slept 2-3 hours. Sleep that night ... That was not night ... we're working virtually non-stop. 2-3 hours a night I had a little sleep and so. Even if I slept a little, I always woke up with an ugly disposition that there was a new day of nightmare, tears ...
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From the hell I managed to get out with a customer from the country. He was simply a permanent customer and he tried to help me. He tried it several times, but at first I did not trust him, I did not know the tongue well, so I could understand it. After that, I said that whatever it is, even if it leads me elsewhere, it makes me much worse, at least to try. You know I did not go either with a risk or a fear. I said I'm courageous, I'm gonna jump this fence, I'll go all over. I managed to get away.
[It took] 5 months.
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Very much. And in the morning, and in the evening in my mind, I was about to get home and see my mother, my brothers, know I was fine. To live without that sinful money.
[I came home with] Nothing. Without any money. I have fled from there.
The masters of the given country [took the money]. It was a whole family. They had their business.
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This is a legal thing in this country.
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Yes. It's [prostitution] just legal. And I myself every week had access to a medical check-up.
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No. It's not good, [to legalize prostitution] because every man has a soul. And they should think that they also have kids and somebody will get to play their children just as they play their children.
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[Silvia was the only person saved]
My passport was seized as soon as I got there in the country. All my papers were taken, absolutely. A few months ago, I was trying to come home, I wanted to go home. And I drank the pills, I was saying that if they drank pills, they could finally take me home ... Nothing, it did not affect them either.
They've [the pills] really made me worse. I was 5 minutes away from death, I got into the hospital. That was where my passport was supposed to be. They brought me the passport and accidentally forgot to take it, and got my passport on my hands. And I gave my passport to that person and picked up my ticket on the plane.
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I really think it lucky, because as far as I've been through, I've managed to survive too.
[Silvia returned home to Moldova]
Great joy. Already have been home for two months. But now I'm reliving the emotions. And I look at all this beauty around. And I can not imagine how I could let Moldova go for a sinister banner.
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Before deciding to leave outside the country, consult a legal person. If he knows he is leaving in Europe, he has the necessary documentation package for Europe. And do not leave, let yourself be lured by the fact that with our Moldavian passport you can go to any country in Europe. Not to be left in the hands of a person of mistrust.
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I think poverty. Even the adventure of experiencing a new life outside the country. But first I would even put poverty, because many of our Moldovans are from the country where poverty is the first place.
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Many can only make money on prostitution, only on this path. All Europe now, all continents are in poverty and a well-paid job is not found.
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I want to get back from the shock I've been experiencing.
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My psyche has been disturbed. Even when I came back home, my mother was the first to notice that my psyche is a little disturbed. And he tried to find out something, but I will not tell him I think he never. Next, I want to get back totally. I would still like to continue my studies, to go on to do my second job.
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Vengeance has already begun. I'm going to court. I have such a principle: whoever gets used to me does not escape easily from my hands. Though I think a more timid, fickle person, in my mind no one knows what persists. So the people to be punished.
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There was no meeting [with her trafficker], because he, a few months ago, before returning to the country, he was already closed. Someone before me was found to denounce him.
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I think he should still feel on his skin what I felt: pain, torment, despair. As I said, the case is being examined in the court. But if our judgment is not right, I'm going to go to the ECHR. People given the most severe punishment.
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