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Former sex slave describes horrific experience trapped in a room for 5 months

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After escaping, starts foundation to save other sex slaves.

Sunita Duanwar opens up about her horrific experience as a sex slave for five months in a Mumbai brothel. She was forced to service 30 men a day every day. She has decided to share her experience nearly twenty years after her escape and has founded a charity group that assists in the rescue of young women and girls.

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By Linky C. (NEWS CONSORTIUM)
Catholic Online (https://www.catholic.org)
9/3/2015 (8 years ago)

Published in Middle East

Keywords: Sex Traffic, Mumbai Brother, white slavery, Nepal sex slave

MUNTINLUPA CITY, PHILIPPINES  (Catholic Online) - Sunita Duanwar, a former sex slave, shared her experience after being trapped in a brothel for five months. She was beaten daily by customers and her owners. Today she is an advocate seeking to help girls drawn into the sex trafficking industry.
Sunita was tricked into becoming a sex slave. She had been promised she would receive regular work. However, tragedy set in when she was sold into slavery and locked in a small room to work as a prostitute for nearly half a year. 
She shares, "During those five months I was forced to serve up to 30 customers a day seven days a week and 50 costumers a day at public holidays and celebrations, and some of them would beat me. Even when I tried to sleep they would wake me up if a customer wanted sex. I was not allowed to go out of the house or leave the room which has bars in front of the windows and I was guarded all the time."
Fortunately, a Buddhist monk managed to discover Sunita's situation and helped her escaped from the prison. He was the one who also helped her cross the border back to Nepal where she was reunited with her family.


Duanwar faces several challenges in her advocacy as sex smugglers target desperate girls who survived the devastating Nepal earthquake.
Nepal has been a popular hunting ground for people smugglers who are looking for young girls and women who can be sold into slavery. 
"People are more desperate and look for possibilities to survive after the earthquake. We fear the number of sex trafficked young women and girls from poor and marginalized communities will rise ... they and their families have lost everything and are now living in tents or temporary shelters," expressed Duanwar. "That makes them a vulnerable target."
Shakti Samuha is a charity with a predominantly female staff that specializes in rescuing women from brothels. Duanwar runs the charity and works with other charities, such as Tiny Hands International, to save young girls and women who are sold around the world. 
"The women and girls are been giving false promises by the sex exploiters who often knows the families in advance and who untruthful tell them the will get good  jobs and earn many money abroad if they travel with them to another country and that they will be able to support their poor families back home. And the girls will most often believe them."
In a statement issued by Tiny Hands International, some victims can be as young as six-years-old.
An estimated 228,700 Nepalese have been sold into slavery, according to the Global Slavery Index, and a 2013 UNICEF report estimated around 7,000 women and children from Nepal being taken to India to work in brothels every year.

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