They range in age from newborn babies right through to age 16 or 17 years of age. The girls, particularly, are in a bad situation in Russia, the older girls especially. When we were there in 1993-94, looking to see what children need help the most, we saw the older children, particularly the sibling groups, and the older girls, because there was no real future for the girls. It's a very desperate situation for young girls coming out of the orphanages. The situation with most of the girls in Russia is that the orphan girls produce orphan children.
Prostitution is a very common situation there.
It's not looked on as a moral issue as it is here. It's a good way to make hard currency, and hard currency living. But the reality is that these girls get involved with that and they get involved with the wrong element of people who manage that and they are shipped all over the world to be just simply used and thrown away with disease in their body, or maybe they become pregnant. It's a cycle that can be broken. In Russia, there is no other choice.