#1192 - Despite repeated official governmental denials of the villagers’ claims our Correspondent pressed on, following a winding and often dangerous trail that would eventually take him to India, Thailand and Viet Nam in Southeast Asia, as well as to Spain, Poland, Turkey, and other countries in Europe and in the Middle East. Many victims of sexual enslavement, especially those from the desperately impoverished rural regions of Moldova, Ukraine and other former Soviet states, are lured into the sex trade by vague promises of large sums of money to be earned abroad performing housekeeping or other “domestic services. The women and young girls held in sexual bondage live at all times under the total domination of their captors.