Anna

At 17, Anna was living in Moldova with her father. Unable to find work in Chisinau, Moldova's capital, Anna was told about a Moldavian woman in Romania.

"When I arrived, there were a dozen girls in that apartment, most of them Moldavian, a few Ukrainian. We were locked up; they took my passport. The other girls said: 'What did you think was going to happen? It's just a job - you'll sell yourself when you get to Italy and you'll make money.' I had trusted the woman in Chisinau. Nobody there said anything about prostitution; they talked about working in a bar or a restaurant."

Anna followed a procession of owners from Romania, eventually arriving in Italy with a man names Victor. When a friend of Victor gave a phone number to Anna, Victor beat her.

"Then he showed me two bullets, and he said: 'I'll find my pistol and I'll use these to kill you.'"

Anna was eventually discovered by the Italian police.

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