The trafficking of children for purposes of sexual exploitation

Map 2: Some indications of local trafficking in Gauteng
FR1: Lerato as I have explained to you we are doing research, and we believe that you've been
with Mama Thenjiwe for some time, and we would just like to ask you if you would like to tell us
your story in your own words. Okay.
Lerato: Umm, before I came here I was staying in Diepsloot and I was staying with my mother and
father, and, and I was in school in Diepsloot, and I used to go to school everyday. Like, and my
mother was sick at home, and, and I didn't know what was wrong with my mother. Then I didn't
have anything left to give it to my mother. Like sometimes she needs pills and my father wasn't
working. So we're suffering with my mother. And I, I and I was staying, I was sitting at home, then
one of my friends came at home. Then the (unclear) said (real name) are you worried. I said I'm
just worried about my mother. He said what's wrong with your mother? I said my mother is sick,
and I don't know what to do. My father is not at home everytime, and his not working. Then he said
to me: Aah, don't worry let's go. Then I said where we are going? He said no, if you want to save
your mother just come with me. We went. Then he stopped the car, after a white man, then after he
stopped the car after the white man, he said come. Then I said where are we going? He said never
mind, just come with me. Then I came with her who's car it is. The time we came with the car, we
went to the house of the man with the white car. Then they went to their room. Then he slept with
that man. Then he called me, then I said no I don't want to do this, this is wrong. He said to me no,
come on, if you don't you're not going to get money, and you can't take your mother to hospital.
Then I slept with that man, and after sleeping with that man, I asked myself what I was doing. What
I was doing was wrong. Then this man after he gave us R50-00, then he gave me R25-00, then we
went back. After we went back, then I bought my mother some pills, and I bought some, some food
with the other money that was left. Then we cooked at home with, with my mother. And in the night
my mother was crying telling me, she's getting sore, then I said I don't know what to do. Then we
couldn't sleep that night. Then I didn't go to school tomorrow. It was on Thursday, I didn't go to
school, and on Friday. Then on Saturday that girl came again, and said let's go, I said no, I'm not
going. She said let's go. Then that man came. Then we went there. Then I slept with that man. Then
he gave us the other R50-00. Then I said to my friend no, I'm not going to do this again. This is
wrong. Look now I'm not in school anymore, when I can't wait for this. Then with that money I took
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