The JVI team and its local partner learned about a brothel trafficking 15 underage girls in the northern region of India. After further investigation, JVI’s teams alerted the local authorities of the illegal activity and together surveyed the premises to prepare the ground for intervention.
On October 19, JVI’s teams reached the brothel to rescue the girls, but in a dangerous turn of events the traffickers were tipped off to JVI’s plans and shifted 14 of the girls to another location. Despite this devastating setback, JVI, its partner, and local police executed the raid to rescue one of the girls. The team found her as she was being assaulted by one of her customers.
After getting her to safety and tending to her medical needs, the team was able to assist this young woman with aftercare services to begin her road to recovery. Surbhi is the 16-year-old who had been living in this nightmare for more than a year. She was brought to this brothel under false pretenses that she would have a good job and a bright future. Instead, she had been forced into a violent reality where she was forced to entertain multiple men daily.
JVI rejoices with Surbhias as she begins her journey to restoration.
And JVI will continue to work for the rescue and freedom of the 14 other girls still held by traffickers.
