"It takes an ignorant and stagnant community to see a prostitute; it takes an informed and educated community to see a victim; it takes a responsive and courageous community to make a difference!" Author UnknownDay 11
The Mirror, a UK newspaper, has published an account by two young Lithuanian women of how they were trafficked into the UK. They met two men near their village in Lithuania in 2004. After a few dates they agreed to go on a short holiday to the UK with them, but when they reached London’s Gatwick airport they were taken to a coffee shop in the airport terminal itself and sold for £3000 each in full view of the public. Despite their distress, no member of the public offered to help them. The two women, now aged 19 and 21, were raped and forced to work as prostitutes. Eventually both women escaped and their traffickers Serbian-born Tasim Axhami, 19, Lithuanian Emiljan Beqirat, 18, and Vilma Kizlaite, 20 have been jailed for 21 years, 16 years and 11 years respectively. Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said, “It is unacceptable that these women currently do not get proper protection in Britain after so much suffering.”
Please pray for women being trafficked into the UK to be exploited in the sex industry . Pray that the demand for women in this country would be reduced as this is what creates the crime in the first place. Pray that men in the UK realize that the abuse of human trafficking is widespread in prostitution.
Prayer Diary available at: http://www.stopthetraffik.org/downloads/prayer_diary.pdf
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