Tanya lived in the small town in Lugansk region. She was 20 years old.
Her father left the family when she was 4 and her brother was 2 years old. In 1991 her brother was knocked down by car. He stayed alive but became the invalid. So the mother couldn�t work because she had to take care of him. The girl finished s technical school but couldn�t find work. Almost all factories and plants in the city hadn�t work. Sometime the family had nothing to eat except bread and water.
The girl was slim and pretty. A friend of her mother proposed to her to go to her relatives in the UAE: to work as a servant at the rich villa. The salary - $ 4000. It was incredible luck for the girl.
She got the passport and visa and flew to Abu-Dabu. After the arrival her passport was taken out and she was informed she had been sold for $ 7000 and from that moment she had to work in a bar attracting clients. After some time the girl could escape and turned to the police of UAE for help. A policeman arrested her and she was condemned for 3 years for false charge. The girl has been in the prison for 11 months. According to the law of the country even for volunteering prostitution a woman can be condemned for 1 year, but there was no attorney at the court and no one could contest the verdict. The work of attorney during the court costs $ 5 � 7 000 and family have no such big money.
We wrote the letter to the Ambassador of Ukraine in UAE and to the shah of the country but unfortunately we have not got positive results yet. The Ambassador turned into different institutions in the country, but no one will revise the case without attorney. Our Ambassador visits the girl in the prison which is in desert. The girl is longing to come back home but afraids that everybody will chatter about her and no one will marry her. Her mother calls us constantly and she is crying day and night that fates of both her children are broken and there is no hope in future.
Raisa
The name of my daughter is Raya. She is 23 now. We live in Kyiv. Three years ago I took a lodger. He was a student from Jordan. I called him Azim.
In a time my daughter fell in love with him. He didn�t want to marry her and I saw he didn�t love her. But soon my daughter had got a child. It was a boy. We gave him name Arthur. After child was born, Azim disappeared. He went to Jordan. My grandson was one year old, when Azim came back and began to insist on adopting the child. I was against it but my daughter wonted her son to have father. So they formed the adoption. Some time passed and Azim began to ask Raya to go to Jordan to see his father. I asked my daughter not to do it, but she didn�t obey. They left Kyiv. I knew that if Raya wasn�t happy with him in Kyiv she wouldn�t be happy with him in Jordan too. In a time my daughter called me.
She was crying and said that they lived with Azim�s parents. His parents were not bad, but the life there was terrible. Azim didn�t allow her to leave the house, made her to shut her face and to eat without spoon. (They have such custom). He still didn�t want to marry her.Raya understood that Azim needed the son only to get state privilege for the child. He got the piece of land and hoped to get the other privileges....