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Trapped by a Facebook job advert, freed by a stranger in a taxi
Sofia* was 27, raising her seven-year-old son alone in Venezuela, and running out of options. For years she had distributed personal hygiene products door to door, but as her customers’ finances collapsed, so did her income.
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Eventually she had no choice but to quit and start looking for something else.
That is when she saw the advert on Facebook Marketplace: a job in Trinidad and Tobago, all expenses paid, work waiting on arrival.
A woman calling herself “Valentina” messaged her on WhatsApp.
Sofia had no way of knowing that Valentina was part of a trafficking network.
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