By Jeanette S; information obtained from Freedom Firm | Project Officer
UPDATE: RESCUE RAIDS
The rescue teams have been working hard over the last months.
Following investigations, the rescue team freed three girls, all of whom are believed to be minors, from a brothel in the Red Light District of Nagpur on 10th July 2015. An earlier attempt did not succeed as the brothel keepers heard news of the raid beforehand and therefore shut down the area. However, our colleagues did not give up that easily! The next day they went back with the police and successly rescued the girls.
Free a Girl was informed that on the 30th July 2015, the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, the rescue team executed a raid in the town of Koregaon for the first time. With help from the local police, they successfully rescued two minor girls under eighteen and two girls over eighteen as well as arrested three brothel keepers. A reduction in minor girls forced into prostitution is being seen in places where the rescue team continuously and successfully conducts raids, enabling the team to focus on new areas. This was good news on a special day.
On 6th August 2015, the team conducted a successful rescue raid in a brothel in Wani, Yavatmal District. With cooperation from police they freed two girls. One of these girls is a fifteen year old minor and six months pregnant. Additionally, three brothel keepers and two clients who were exploiting these girls were arrested and are in custody.
We are proud of the work that has enabled these girls to escape the horrors of forced prostitution and now look to a better future.
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