The amounts vary from a few hundreds to nearly 8000. The girls end up in the claws of a big criminal group dealing with human trafficking, having strong ties in Europe.
Social workers in Italy are working close with the prosecutors trying to save as many girls as they can from the nightmare of such a living. A NGO provides them with free of charge visits to the gynecologist and psychological counseling.
After nightfall, the streets of the fashion city is swarming with young Romanian women. Aged between 11 and 14 years, they have been sold to a large network of human trafficking operating in Italy, France and the UK. Girls are forced into prostitution during the night and at day they are sent to beg. Eight thousand Euros. This is the price of a Romanian child. And many Romanian women sell their children for much less.
Young girls got to be threatened by other girls who have suffered the same fate a few years back, but who went up into the hierarchy of the organization.
The drama is that most girls prostitute voluntarily, knowing that this is the only way to earn a living away from their country.
The girls completely refuse to get away from their tormentors, authorities say.