Juliette

Juliette was only seven when a group of strangers approached her in her village in south Benin. They offered her a job in the nearby country of Cote D'Ivoire; they even paid her parents. She recalls:

"There were a lot of children going. I wanted to go with them...I was excited to be going somewhere in a car."

But Juliette was actually being sold into slavery. Now she wakes at 6 a.m. to clean her master's house and spends the rest of the day selling knick-knacks at a local market booth.

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