Mariana van Zeller
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They were amazing.
And they were the ones who went into some of these brothels using undercover footage.
And they were actually able to get all the stuff that we needed because until that point, we thought we didn't have a story.
And then we met them and they started doing this incredible work.
So this, at least we have footage of this actually happening because nobody wanted to talk to us.
The ones that don't get married.
You'd think the worst of the worst is living in the situation that that woman lived, right, in the house with the Chinese family locked in the room and forced to give birth to kids.
But in this case, there's even worse, which are those that don't get married.
They're put in brothels because the traffickers have to figure out how to make money out of this commodity.
For them, these women are just commodities.
And yeah, being locked in those rooms.
And this undercover journalist, it's this incredible work where he shows up at this brothel and he says he's like this long corridor and every single door on both sides are women that are locked and forced to have sex with men and they're not making any money.
In the dark.
And so he goes into one of the rooms.
It's complete darkness in there.
Once he gets in, at one point, I think he turns on the light and they tell him, no, no, no, turn off the light because he wants to see what's happening.
It's the madam that runs the brothel that takes him there.
As soon as he gets in, she locks the door from the outside.
So then he's in there.
He says he saw there was three women and they start whispering to him and saying, OK, wait.