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Abduction 3: Alicia's story Original interview in English I was walking with Arlene and Shelley on the Parade, after school. We were approached by four men, we didn't know. They appeared, as if from nowhere and grabbed all three of us. They put us into a white BMW. We were shouting and going on. We shouted and went on. They pulled our hair and pushed our heads down so that people couldn't see what they were doing. We were pushed down onto the floor of the car in the back. One of them drove the car and the other three sat at the back holding us down, between their knees. Alicia is one of the abducted girls who became a child prostitute. She stayed in the house for three months before she managed to escape. According to her she just decided that it was time to leave and she left. 5. What they say about their lives in the gang 5.1. Becoming one of the girls 5.1.1 The Chappie or Tattoo One evening while we were sitting in the room I decided that I would refuse to be tattooed. The other girl decided she is going to tattoo "Zunaid" on her fingers. She insisted that I do the same, but I still refused. I then agreed to have my child's name tattooed on my arm. Much later I realised that all the girls have "Zunaid" tattooed on their fingers. I was the only one that did not have his name tattooed on my fingers. One day while we were sitting outside we looked at each other's hands, I closed mine. They asked me why I closed my hands, I said 'because I don't have Zunaid's name tattooed on my fingers". Then they said "then you are not one of the girls, you are a danger to us.” Because of that I allowed one of the girls to tattoo my hands. – Chantal The Friday morning seven o'clock they hijacked her on the road. With guns. They hijacked her into Zunaid's car. Zunaid was the driver and some of his guards. I can't tell you the names now. They hijacked her, the Friday. So when hmm, ja hmm so when this case was finished I asked her what did he do when he grabbed her into the car. She said no he hit her with his fist, and hmm she also mentioned to me like, they made her actually drunk there in the house, and they tattooed her. She was actually drunk, they used the branding needles on her. She didn't want it. She was forced to. – Christine They say, they say why they got tattoos is like, like say for instance hmm, you your Zunaid, we both here, that's like we must stand together with him in whatever he's going through. And that's why all the girls got that Zunaid's name on their hands. – Christine 5.1.2. The first time on the street One night, two of the girls Sylvie and Chantal stayed behind and talked to us about going out with them. They said that it was really easy the men just stop and you go to the car and you tell them it's R80-00 and then you bring them back to the house and the boys will follow you in the car. When you get to the house one of the girls will be waiting in the room, under the bed and you get the client to undress, and then the girl will take his money from his pants and you don't have sex with him. You just push his penis between his legs and it hurts and he won't be able to do anything and if he tries to hurt you or fight with you then the boys will be there to deal with him. After another few days I did go out with them, every night. – Alicia 5.2. Life in the house Alicia says: Everyone was locked up, in that house. There were eleven other girls there besides the three of us... . They brought the men home and robbed them and one night there was a fight because the one man found out that the girls were stealing money from him. He demanded his money back and Zunaid and the young boy who was there, Sammy, beat the man and threw him out of the house. Belinda says: He comes into the bathroom when you are having a bath and he sits and watches you. If he feels like getting into the bath with you then he does. And then you have to wash his back - you have to wash him because he is Zunaid. Chantal says: Sometimes, when it rains and we can't sit outside then we sit inside the house. We drink our lives away. We drink 55
everyday. Jenny says: The house was always dirty. Everything was always in a mess." Crystal says: While, we were in the room I heard Anthea screaming: "Leave me, Mommie help me, God help me!" Janine then told Zunaid to go and help Anthea. He said that he couldn't help her because the other guys would be cross for him if he spoilt their fun. He then also said that Anthea and Verosha chose to sleep in the lounge. Shortly after this, Verosha came running into the room and switched the light on. I noticed that she was totally naked. She climbed into bed and asked Zunaid to help her. I saw how he turned his back on her and laughed silently. Then another boy came into the room, I can't remember his name, but he was about eleven or twelve years old. He pulled Verosha out of the room. 5.3. Violence as a method of coercion and control There are four ways in which violence takes place in this gang. In the first instance it is directly from the leader against the girls. Secondly the boys commit acts of violence against the girls. Thirdly the girls report their involvement in acts of violence against the boys. Fourthly the girls are involved in acts of violence against one another. All acts of violence appear to occur on the orders of or at the instigation of the gang leader. Violence is clearly used as a method to ensure that the leader's authority remains unchallenged. Anti-trafficking organisations note that in addition to being trafficked children and adults also experience violence. This violence is exercised as a means of control. These acts of violence include 157 • torture, cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment • slavery or slavery-like practices, involuntary servitude, forced or compulsory labour • debt bondage • forced marriage, forced abortion, forced pregnancy. Box 8: Article 37(a) - The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (1979) No child shall be subjected to torture, or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment The girls describe the occurrence of this violence thus: Hy moet 'n meisie slat. Elke aand dan moet hy 'n meisie slat. He must beat a girl. Every evening he must beat a girl. – Lorraine One of the boys, stabbed me with a knife, in the back, and he hit me with a bottle over my knees and on my head because I wouldn't stop crying and shouting. Anil and the other two boys slapped me and kicked me in the stomach. – Mercia After I had been there for a while he started beating me too. I wanted to go home, but it wasn't possible. Sometimes when you are sitting in the lounge then you have to be too scared to look up. You have to stare at the floor. You can't look at him. You never know when it will be your turn to be beaten. He just comes up to you without warning and slaps you in the face, for no reason. Or he will get Faghme to hit you. Faghme always beat me. He would hit me to the ground and kick my head against the tiles. – Lorraine As jy slaap, jy word geslat nê. Hulle vang allerhanne goetters aan met jou as jy slaap. Hulle brand jou sommer mette entjie. They do all sorts of things to you while you are sleeping. They'll burn you with a cigarette. – Belinda 5.4. Resistance and punishment 157 Human Rights Caucus: Human Rights Standards for the Treatment of Trafficked Persons Document prepared to inform the deliberations of the Drafting committee on the Protocol on Trafficking of omen and Children for the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice. 56
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