ANDREW MCKEOWN
While in Washington D.C, members of the IYT crew interviewed members of the FBI at the FBI training academy. All interviewed wished to remain anonymous. One FBI agent told us that he was involved in combating Mexican drug cartels while stationed in Texas. "the main crime cells specialise in the transport and selling of drugs, illegal DVDs and equipment and human trafficking". He told us that many women are sold into prostitution by criminal gangs in Mexico who then sell these young women to American gangs. Often these women are forced to use drugs until they are addicted, a method of both "taming and subduing them". These women are then forced to work as prostitutes on American streets and have to continue working for their 'pimps' who provide them with drugs so as to feed their addiction. Another agent told us that he worked with French police officials and told us that the case is the same in mainland Europe. He told us that " these women, mainly from Eastern Europe are traded by gangs for money or drugs and that the blackmarket selling 'crack whores' does very well in the larger European cities. He also stated that "the youngest girl I saw in prostitution was only about 12 or 13, only a kid." Clearly, human trafficking is a horrifyingly profitable trade in our 'civilised societies'.
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