In Kazakhstan, classmates kept a 16-year-old schoolgirl in slavery for six months and forced her into prostitution
In Kazakhstan, a 16-year-old schoolgirl was kept in sexual slavery by her classmates for six months. They drugged the girl and forced her to engage in prostitution, threatening to kill her parents. This was reported by The Village Kazakhstan, citing a press conference by the Ne Molchi KZ foundation.
According to the mother of the victim, it all started when a classmate of the daughter's started coming to visit them, sometimes staying overnight. And then the classmates started asking the girl to spend the night with them. The parents were against it at first, but they were convinced that everything would be fine: "In January, they took our daughter's phone and registered her on a website for prostitutes, then blackmailed her by filming her on video, where she was changing clothes while drunk and naked." For some time, the girl continued to go to school, but soon they began to force her to engage in prostitution more and more often: "There were days when she was forced to [engage in prostitution] for two days without a break. If she was late [transferring money to the criminals] for at least five minutes, she was beaten." The girl was pumped full of drugs and threatened that if she did not do what they wanted, they would let carbon monoxide into her parents' house and poison the entire family through the basement.
In March, the victim's mother contacted the school, but there they began to threaten her that the girl would be sent to a special boarding school, and the mother would be deprived of parental rights: "They told me that everything would be fine, she was a teenager. And the school took a receipt from all the children that the daughter went to school. But she did not." It is reported that when the girl began to disappear from home, the parents filed a report with the police, the juvenile affairs department and the criminal investigation department, but they did not look for her, but the parents were threatened with deprivation of parental rights. The girl herself periodically called her parents via video link and said that she worked in a cafe as a waitress or a salesperson in a flower shop. But after the parents arrived there, they were told that she simply filmed a video and left.
After the girl was able to free herself from slavery, she could not receive medical care: her mother had to go to a private clinic to get tests done and have her injuries recorded. The police treated the girl inhumanely: they forced her to give testimony and recall what happened several times. After one of these interrogations, the girl's mother needed medical care, and an ambulance was called for her. While the victim was in slavery, she ate almost nothing, she only got what the suspects did not finish.
According to the founder of the Ne Molchi KZ foundation Dina Tansari (Smailova), all the transfers made by the men [the girl's "clients") have been recorded. There are more than a thousand of them. The relatives of the injured girl plan to hold everyone involved accountable. The girl herself is in a terrible state: "She doesn't smile, laugh or even cry. It feels like she's already resigned herself to it. I've seen such traumatized children. She's simply resigned herself to what's happening. What's scary to us is that she did all of this automatically. She didn't see any way out." It is reported that the girl couldn't sleep during the first nights and barely eats anything. She hasn't received any help from government agencies, despite the fact that after the story became public, her parents were promised support and help from a psychologist.
The first person who raped the girl, as the foundation claims, was an employee of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan. He was also her first "client".
The apartment where the girl was held belonged to the mother of one of the suspects, who works on a rotational basis. The apartment was fully prepared for such meetings, the windows were sealed. According to Dina Tansari, the suspect's mother knew that men went there. In addition to this apartment, there were other places (for example, saunas), where the girl went by taxi to see clients.
A criminal case has now been opened, the teenagers are under house arrest, but a "crowd of people" came to the victim, who tried to "negotiate" with her. The girl began to be guarded by police officers, her mother fears for her life, because the relatives of the suspects know where she lives, come to her windows and threaten the family.
A criminal case was opened against the parents of the suspects. In addition, the department stated that the parents of the schoolgirl, who was bullied by her classmates in Kyzylorda, did not contact law enforcement agencies for six months: "The investigative court applied a preventive measure in the form of house arrest to the minor suspects. The injured party did not contact law enforcement agencies for six months. Now, examinations have been ordered in the case, and a comprehensive, complete and objective investigation is being conducted."
The police also opened a criminal case under the article "Involving a minor in prostitution." However, the parents are demanding that the article be reclassified as more serious, because under this article the maximum punishment is up to six years of imprisonment.
