Ilja's Story

“You don’t see the strings, do you?”

Sexual exploitation under threats and coercion:
In this video, Ilja explains how her financial difficulties were exploited to trap her into debt. Traffickers then threatened to mutilate her or harm a family member – unless she worked for them in the sex industry. At first she agreed to lose a finger. But she was pushed into a male voyeur club environment and forced to work. What was presented to her as one week of work became three years.