But the absence of resources is also partly to blame. But we have no money. In Chisinau the vice squad doesn't even have its own car. Poverty combined with a lack of interest in a crime that ultimately victimizes foreigners has led to some surprisingly callous responses. In Moldova, even a doctor in the venereal disease clinic treating women who have returned to the country believes their troubles are in most cases self-inflicted.
Prosecution is almost always problematic.
Traumatized and deeply humiliated by their ordeal, most women fail to testify even when given the chance. Twice peacekeepers have raided a railside nightclub in the south central town of Ferizai, and twice they came up empty-handed after the girls failed to incriminate the owner, even though purplish cigarette burns were plainly visible along their upper arms. Nor is much done for victims who do want to tell their story. But they receive little protection or support. But no sooner had she read her statement at police headquarters than she began receiving threatening phone calls.