This is how traffickers cheat girls in Kosovo by sending them into prostitution (Video)

This is just one of the scenarios that ends up blackmailing the girl to commit violent prostitution.

One of the forms of blackmail from the leaders of these works is video footage of prerecorded intimate images and threats that the same will be published or sent to the girl's family.

Police say this form of blackmail in Kosovo society is seen as very disturbing, adding the fact that most of these trafficking victims are under the age of 18.

Central Human Trafficking Sector chief in the Kosovo Police, Riza Murati, has told Radio Free Europe how the fraud of victims occurs.

“Initially, recruiting victims is done through various frauds, are those marriage frauds, when recruited or deceived that they will have good life or studies abroad. Then, by means of this, they manage to get the heads to provide intimate videos of the victims, of women with whom they spend some of their time, say, loved ones. Then through those videos, they are blackmailed to carry out activities or to be exploited, then they are forced to go out with other people to bring benefits to criminals”, Murati said.

Most of these cases are identified through police operations, as victims are afraid to call the police.

By this period of this year, Kosovo Police have reported 22 cases of trafficking, in contrast to 36 cases they were in last year.

Shortly after the war, the victims of prostitution were from mainly Eastern European countries. Today, most of the victims are girls trafficked inside Kosovo's territory.

Murati has shown that under the Kosovo Police, the human trafficking sector, respectively, there is also the sector for assistance and protection of trafficking victims dealing with action procedures for long-term reintegration of trafficking victims.

In addition, there is the State High Security Refuge in Kosovo, as well as two other accommodations operating as nongovernmental organisations and offering such services.

At the Centre for the Protection of Victims and Prevention of Human Trafficking, the government organization that provides rehabilitation and reintegration services for victims, we have provided a confession of a girl who has been a victim of sexual trafficking through blackmail.

These are some of the victims' confessions:

And then they ordered me to have sex with other men. The one who first raped me was like my boss. All the time he threatened to film me when I was forced into sexual relations, and I'm going to tell my parents what I did”, the victim said.

I remember the day I tried to leave that place, how much he tortured me. I still have marks on my body. He always told me there were people in the police...”

According to sociologist Linda Gusia, returning to the family is not a solution to these kinds of victims and that institutions should play the main role in their rehabilitation.

The problem is that our patriarchal society, our traditional family, makes it almost impossible for these girls to return to the family bay or return to the life they had before”, Gusia said.

Gusia views women's independence as the best opportunity for them to return to life in society:

One of the reasons why these women and girls fall prey to trafficking is poverty, and the best help would be for them to be economically independent and create the idea that they can be independent and survive financially. I consider this to be the main issue”.

So far for this kind of blackmail for sexual exploitation, a person has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison. Police say it is impossible to reveal these cases if citizens do not co-operate with rule bodies.

Even in the latest U.S. State Department report, Kosovo does not fully meet the minimum standards for the elimination of human trafficking, but is making significant efforts in this regard.