A person describes raiding trafficking sites in Cambodia and the overwhelming reality of rescue work. Two Vietnamese sisters, ages seven and five, had been trafficked there. The older girl asked the speaker to take her so she could protect her younger sibling.
I was inconsolable when we kicked the doors into some of these buildings and they'd been tipped off and they were gone. Or in one case I didn't have enough hands to hold on to all these children. And there were two little girls in particular that were on our refrigerator back home. One was seven, one was five, they were sisters. The first time I met them, the seven year old, I put a deposit down on both of them, you know, for a future transaction. And so the crime is complete and then I want to get out of there. But the seven year old stepped forward, she said something to me in Vietnamese. They'd been trafficked from Vietnam to Cambodia. And as we were leaving I asked my translator, I said what did that little girl say to me? And he said she was asking that you take her because that was all she could do to protect her little sister. Just hearing that's horrific.
