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Ukraine woman shares the story of how she escaped from forced labor in USA

Date: 2007-12-04

In spring of 2004, Katya (not her real name), like thousands of other
foreign exchange university students, was looking forward to the summer job
placement that she and a friend had received in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
When she and her friend Lena arrived at Dulles Airport after a long flight
from Ukraine, they were relieved to be met by fellow countrymen who spoke
Russian.

The two men, Alex Maksimenko and Michael Aronov, were holding signs with the
girls' names and greeted them by taking their bags and luggage. Charming and
reassuring, Aronov informed the girls that they had been reassigned to a job
in Detroit where they would waitress and perfect their English language
skills.

The men drove Katya and Lena to the Greyhound bus station and gave them
tickets to Detroit. Confused and exhausted, the girls had no reason to
question the change of plans.

When we got to the hotel in Detroit, everything changed," says Katya. "They
closed the door and sat us down on the couch, took our passports and papers
and said, you owe us big money for bringing you here. They gave us strip
clothes and told us that we were going to be working at a strip club called
'Cheetahs.'"
Shocked and scared, the two women were subjected to physical, mental and
sexual abuse over the next year as they were forced to work 12-hour shifts
stripping for local Detroit men's clubs. According to immigration customs
agent Angus Lowe, the men controlled the women through intimidation with
guns and threats to hurt family members back home.

Katya and her friend are two of the estimated 17,000 young women and girls
annually who are forced to work in the sex industry in the U.S. by organized
criminals. "Chicago, Houston, St. Paul, Minnesota, these crimes are
happening in every community in America big and small," says Marcie Forman,
Director of Investigations for ICE (Immigration Customs Enforcement.) "We'
re talking about money here. Millions of dollars and these people don't
think about these women as human beings. They think of them as dollars and
cents," Forman says.

In February 2005, after months of planning and finally confiding in a
customer from the strip club, the two girls escaped and were brought to the
FBI and ICE. Their escape resulted in the arrest of Alex Maksimenko and
Michael Aronov, both of whom pleaded guilty and are serving time in federal
prison for their crimes.

Even though her captors are in prison, Katya says she will never live
without fear. Maksimenko's father - who was also convicted of forced labor
and illegal trafficking - continues to live openly in Ukraine as a fugitive
from authorities.

By Grace Kahng
TODAYShow.com contributor

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22083762/





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