Land Of Chaos

You know when you see a book sitting on the shelf and the cover just jumps out at you, the write up on the back sounds interesting so you wander over to the counter and just have to have it. Well I took a trip with the girls up to the library on Saturday, just to have a mooch for myself and for the girls to pick up the books that they ordered. I was looking around for a book on photography to give myself a few tips but I was drawn yet again, to the shelf with the biography's and the true stories.
So I picked up a book titled Slave Girl. As soon as I started to read that night I just knew it was one of those books that I wouldn't be able to put down until I finished. You know one of those things where what you have in your hand is soooooo interesting that it becomes a chore to leave it and do the cooking, the cleaning and even a trip to the bathroom (well that one is a little bit easier....take it with you and have a leisurely sit on the toilet seat for half an hour). It was one of them and now I'm paying the price as I look around my kitchen and really should be stacking the dishwasher but here I am, sat on my computer, writing about a book that just won't go away.

So here it is:

Slave Girl by Sarah Forsyth

Its a story of a young girl who lived most of her life in fear, sexually abused by not only her father but by the people who were supposed to protect her in care. She did start to build a life for herself and gained a qualification in Nursery Nursing.

Wanting to see more of the world she applied for a job in a Nursery in Holland. All was going well until she arrived in Amsterdam and was then forced at gunpoint to work as a prostitute in the notorious red light district.  There was no creche and no job. Sarah was a victim of sex-trafficking.

She turned from a young innocent girl to a crack whore.

This is the story of the life, how she escaped and the long journey to recovery, needless to say, things have never been the same again for her.


It is one of those stories that opens up a whole new arena. How often have you seen adverts around this area or campaigns to stop human trafficking. What you do see is wide publicity about the work that is being completed by agencies with children and young people, charities working abroad and asking you to donate money, or the media publicity when things go wrong such as in recent years with Victoria Climbie and Baby P. What you dont hear is the enormous problem that Human trafficking is. Human trafficking is the second largest illegal trade in the world and the fastest growing form of international crime. The UK is one of the major destinations for trafficking women. There over 80,000 women working in prostitution in the UK so it is very easy to hide those women being trafficked. But if you read the story above, you will find that it is not just one way. Innocent women are being trafficked abroad innocently looking for a better life for themselves.

For more information on the above visit Unseen (UK)