Human Trafficking: Trading in Shame

Human Trafficking: Trading in Shame

Human Trafficking: Trading in Shame

Phillip Martin travels to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to the home of a man whose 19-year old daughter was just rescued from a brothel in China. It’s a story too shameful to reveal, even to neighbors. The shame has not only kept the people who trafficked her in business, but also it kept trafficking alive in Asia. In Vietnamese culture, how one became a prostitute is less important than the fact that you were or are a prostitute. You are perceived as tainted, and thus you are shunned. Therefore, no victim testifies.