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they're sold a vision of money and adventure all they have to do is sign up to become maids in singapore. but for many the reality is far darker. and steve cho on this episode a one on one east we find out why girls who are too young to work continue to be trafficked to asia's most prosperous nation. in may last year a young domestic worker from miramar had a terrifying fall from the night floor of this block of flats in singapore. her employer whom we will call john can still remember that day. a bounce that hutchison oleson gene told told us how low us some thoughts on to. sunlight a soul. what you call the skate hustle gene not touch a book i sing. one book i sing about how to how to tell why joe says i see

i see our. whole job all over. the girl who john knows says ten ten was severely injured and is lucky to be alive . fool with broken by a covered walkway two stories down. john says he was initially very angry about what she'd done but then he found out something shocking from the myanmar embassy tintin was just fifteen years old what's on the. militants. and clearly and. i see. no harm in this is what's in this whole sorry. when he fossum. and his wife hired tintin through

a singapore an employment agency asset recruitment according to this information sheet prepared by the company she was twenty three years old. asset recruitment the client of repeated requests for comment. on them. on the human juice all unfolds good so i read in guides that. it's a read so. that you. don't hear. but tintin's is not an isolated case thirty. in two thousand and sixteen in an exclusive investigation one of one east reveals that teenage girls were being trafficked from mid-market to singapore but domestic do you also think. this was despite laws in myanmar banning all female citizens from seeking such jobs

overseas following reports of abuse. as well as laws in singapore stipulating that all foreign domestic workers have to be at least twenty three years old now we're discovering that the illegal trafficking of vulnerable young girls continues . to. be. quite a two twenty three. and it. that's a conservative estimate. and reporting. to me and age old i don't. think. that this is what

you're. looking. for any domestic worker who has been abused seeking help can be a daunting prospect many agents hefty recruitment fees of up to eight months salary and would rather ensure ill treatment than risk being sent home and debt. also be underage. trapped in households and do not know how to seek help so that's also net effect. of such cases. some cases end in tragedy. just four weeks off the arriving here domestic worker white wine allegedly jumped out of the window of her employer's eighteenth floor flat. at a funeral we meet her oldest sister choctaw who also came to singapore as a domestic worker. of volunteer from a migrant workers n.g.o.s helps to translate. died. and.

this is from. a new person. but we don't get to speak further as george will is led away by officials from the myanmar embassy and the army on monday night. to find out the truth about wine wine we travel to the mandalay region in central min ma. it's a world away from singapore. down a dirt track off the main road is in dorji village. this is where wine wine and her sister church all grew up and where their mother and family still live. their brother. has been unwell for months unable to work after

a mine the wound became infected because he couldn't afford to get it treated. he and his wife have just had a baby. but he only wants to talk about his sister. but . the. and near. warning i will leave it yet. you give me all why why nothing of. what we. keep wasn't home when a recruitment agent from a neighboring village showed up one day and it was their mother who agreed to let wine wine go. away. and the. game was only.

ice with suspected wine wine was under-age her family records show she was only seventeen. the same agent has recruited at least sixty goals from this village to go to singapore one of them has recently returned and come to visit white wines family kensho is twenty years old unable to cope with being away from home she quit only a month off the leaving me and my. mother tells us another of her daughters is still working in singapore. remember that event could not be allowed the last may even be an argument over material the now quality will now hold up i remember you were a little man. and they're the rule yeah me you know gary you have you know a lot of knowledge in any of or not among ivy. c.b.s. of your peers and i. for the better part of the interview will leave the talking to

her mother but she does try to interrupt once. one thousand in my leg little teeny little model learn the bank event i want to hire now who now might let you know about all mine i know would love a moment. for wine wines grieving family these are clearly difficult words to hear but the neighbor doesn't stop and she wants us to know that she believes the agent is the villages benefactor to lao whole a little to my legally of a say yami now miserable me bad yeah yeah he will go yeah eighty g.b. . the level would i give. as little mikey he. day's drive south takes us to the go region. we're hoping to see momo.

we lost better on this rooftop in singapore as part of our two thousand and sixteen investigation. she was just seventeen when she went there as a domestic worker she told us she used months of sexual abuse by her employer to appear want to be a doll in jewish lobby and it should not be russian i'm happy not to be near me too if you want to but i don't want you know why don't you don't want to appear want i don't and she. she fled as soon as the eight months were up but had to remain at a shelter in singapore for another two years to assist police investigations. they finally allowed her to come home even though the case remains unresolved. not they had the baronet who was honey united them and blow up almost take the who

they want and need them yeah. she's now five months pregnant. her husband doesn't have a regular job. at all and he and people who are in it of he viewed not being out of any and sky and that you know it had a car led them and quietly. at a little way. with so few opportunities it's no wonder girls from this village are still leaving for singapore. momo says despite what happened to her she doesn't try to stop them but on of the nigga who. called out what the miracle or the man oh they made one of. them you know we need.

them yes even when you've been a good hiding. and. the wily. tin tin is one domestic worker who didn't need help. she's the fifteen year old who accidentally fell from her employers apartment building she is still recovering from her injuries. she shows us the possible that she used to get a job in singapore almost all the information in it is false. at home she's known as ins in and she was born in two thousand and two not one thousand nine hundred ninety three she confirms what happened to her in singapore and me out there they have all of them in their faith. that i had that i sing a lot i mean. i want to call it how we're not quite on the road i think we're going to allow i. did you know that.

she'd gone to work in singapore hoping to help support her impoverished family but because of the money she owed to her recruitment agents she came home with nothing now her mother has to take care of her instead of. me out of them you. live in women within the indian hernia. zinzan fractured her spine when she fell but is now able to walk slowly off the donors paid for her to have surgery. but she may need another operation soon. diana meant out on one hand and helping the alabama and now. she shows us her scars. it's unlikely they'll ever go away.

but how did a fifteen year old pass for twenty three. we've received a tip off about the person who allegedly helped to make this happen. to not be held accountable in all battle a noble and it or to nominate. the man in the picture is louis zone play tongue. he is a member of parliament from in mars chin state. an online search tells us he's also the director of a company called me and mark global manpower link. the company name sounds awfully familiar story we've seen it before on a sign in a side the recruitment agency in jang gone that we discovered in two thousand and sixteen was illegally sending girls to singapore do you also think.

this was despite men must ban on women working overseas as domestic workers. the website for the company lists several phone numbers. when we cross check them against the contact list of the country's politicians we find a match one of the numbers belongs to louis song played tongue. we decide to give him a cool. well zero. zero zero. zero. zero. we try the second number on the website. this time we have better luck. oh good. oh who did some research just says she's looking to send

a nineteen year old domestic worker to singapore and a friend has recommended the agency but the woman says she's no longer able to help . and i think. you know me. you know. i don't i don't want to donate i don't want all hope or lose you know. you know. if what she says is true louis was managing director of a company involved in illegally sending domestic workers to singapore in

contravention of the two thousand and fourteen pan. to find out more we travel to the outskirts of django on. looking for the office of myanmar global manpower link . according to the address on the company's website this should be it. inside a man refuses to speak on camera but he tells us the house was leased by an employment agency which moved out recently even if it isn't easy and the neighbor has proved more approachable. to hide their identities. we show them a picture of louis' owned and ask if they've seen or recognize him something. to do a lot maybe something at the pump and a model bill announcing to the. management company trying

to be a mom pollutants armory and pollutants only in the treatment. of . mrs fielden pub and over over not. the mom seen the movie on the little events with the needle leap frogged out of the under sea level nothing. to me and nothing to take. me to who are. not all hoping. when one zero one east spoke to louis song he confirmed he was the managing director of me and marc global manpower link until two thousand and fifteen and remained a director until two thousand and sixteen. he tonight knowing the company was involved in illegal activities and rejected all of the ins ins allegations but he did admit to owning the house where the company had its office and that he had

visited recently. agencies in the business of moving under-age girls overseas need one thing possible with fake but dates. a street near the young go on passport office is host to a thriving industry. for a fee possible brokers can help clients circumvent all sorts of bureaucratic hassles and apparently even a few lawless illegal. we randomly choose one and tell her a couple story we're trying to send a nineteen year old domestic worker to singapore last. someone. lonely. don't tell.

a second broker we approach is equally direct of the other lemme. get. them if. i'm not. with so many people making money off this illegal trade it's hard to stem the tide and local labor activist marmar who says the blanket ban is doing more harm than good. corporal will only have to need was you. know a a so we are nearly a dollar you would buy monica carillon is allusion to not be a way to. end on a day when we've been we don't know anything it she says the situation is also

more nuanced than it appears child labor is not uncommon in myanmar and domestic workers here can be as young as eleven years old. even though the line maybe your child don't know that i will tell they are they on israel how will the any million gently in it was out in yet said i will be your. all in. at me and mas labor department we learn the government is acutely aware of the trafficking that's happening under its nose but spokesperson kinda way who says her department can only track the one hundred thirty women who went legally to work in singapore before the ban. it's harder to help if an under-aged goal leaves me in ma illegally any felony any

intent and a ready. the end. of our of those not on the day another mia. thought a calling it the same anita the mere thought to me on it at the way you wish her well you beat all. the dollars and. it appears that when there are cases of exploitation and abuse the labor department expects the traffickers to look after the goals they traffic. we ask if myanmar and singapore are working together to solve the problem and in or never on monday in atlanta who don't want all they are when our own is or seen one not only be at home in and tim obama. back in singapore it's clear to see the band isn't working. every week hundreds of domestic workers from myanmar gather here to enjoy their day off. most

if not all of them have managed to circumvent the ban. some of the like they are still in their teens. when we raise the issue with singapore's ministry of manpower they responded in writing saying the passport remains the primary document for identification and age verification it is thus important for thora ts in the source country to ensure the accuracy of the details in the passports. it's four months since a sister's death and churchill is still grieving. when we first met at the funeral she told us why mine was twenty three or twenty four. but now she says she was too scared to reveal the truth. then agent had instructed her to lie

to land the machine in import and then the room. with. its hot letting go. churchill still can't believe a sister killed herself and them home. in the name of. the new year and have a meal at the mishearing now buy me a line at a new meat on friday and. the two sisters never got to be in singapore. had been trying for days to reach wine wine when she received news of her death. that was nearly four months ago but she still doesn't know what happened. we've come to the condominium where wine wine was walking and where she did legislate jumps eighteen fruitless to her death. is hoping to

meet her sister's employer but she's scared to go inside. so we offer to make the initial approach for ha ha. but the employer doesn't want to meet churchill instead she tells security to throw us out there got here. then you go from a domestic mother to one to find out who's your daddy there with the students my interest and confrontation she just wants to know what happened to my younger sister. he's just a mislead soria what happened if you can you stop here right now so.

why why and only seventeen when she died. doesn't think she'll ever know why i. do not be able hope that he got down easy and the ban on a doll instead while mom don't you know. you know maybe you mean the real me back when you see. she regrets not trying harder to reach whine whine. but most of all she regrets not telling her under-age sister to stay at home. cut down.

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