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Billion Dollar Business
CBS News reports on the illegal trafficking of women from Eastern Europe to Italian brothels. Christiane Amanpour from CNN, on a special assignment for 60 Minutes, tells the stories of young girls who have been recruited from bankrupt ex-socialist countries. They have been lured with promises for decent job or marriage abroad, and then sold and resold in the prostitution "cattle market." The police in the girls' home countries - Moldova, Romania, Ukraine - is aware of the illegal recruiting but is too corrupt to take any measures. Few of the victims manage to escape due to the help of Italian priests. Some find help in a shelter funded by the U.S. and Swiss governments and run by Ken Patterson from Missouri. Still, most victims remain ensnared "in an underworld controlled by ruthless gangs."
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; Mafia; gangs; violence; organized crime; Albania; Vlora; poverty; post-communism; human rights
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'Tell Mama Why You Cry'
The Dallas Observer looks at the heartbreaking separation of a Muslim couple from their two children and how Child Protective Services placed the terrified Krasniqi children in series of group homes and foster families, none of whom ever gave the slightest consideration to the children's ethnic and religious heritage. Sam Krasniqi was aquitted of sexual abuse, but the state won't let him see his children.
Tags: Adoption; Sexual abuse; Religion; Immigrants; Foster care; Albania; Yugoslavia; Department of Human Services