Their reluctance is understandable when you hear the stories they tell. They had met in Romania and had a love affair before he persuaded her to travel with him to Italy. He then forced her into prostitution. When she became pregnant, he locked her in a squalid, empty room, and even took away her watch. When the baby was born, she didn't know what day it was.
Police believe the man sold the child immediately.
Each girl, threatened and enslaved, had to turn a profit of 90 million lire before winning freedom. Some gangs are countered before they get their human cargo into Italy. Recently in Kosovo, Scottish peacekeepers burst into a Pristina bar and rescued 26 young women from Moldova, Bulgaria and Ukraine. One of the girls was just 15 years old. The soldiers discovered, chained and locked in a room, another girl who had been forced to service a customer every 45 minutes.