Petra Nemcova shocked by human trafficking
"It makes me so angry. Girls and boys get sold as young as four-years-old and are put in animal cages. Some of them never see the light anymore," Contactmusic quoted her as saying. "We met this girl who was 13 and a pimp made her lose her right eye. The words 'pimp' and 'child' should never be in the same sentence," she added.
The
Czech
Republic-born
model
was
very
much
moved
by
the
foundation
and
its
work,
with
its
main
purpose
being
to
seek
and
rescue
women
and
girls
from
the
horrors
of
a
life
in
brothels
or
on
the
streets.
Nemcova
displayed
her
support
by
wearing
a
dress
hand-sewn
by
women
rescued
by
the
group,
to
a
recent
charity
gala.
The model had suffered her own hardship during her 2004 vacation in Thailand, where she got caught in a tsunami, receiving multiple broken bones and internal injuries and losing her fiance, photographer Simon Atlee.