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 | Anca, a former Romanian sex slave, hides her face behind a poster in Bucharest in this December 1, 2006 file picture. Every year, thousands of women like Anca, some as young as 13, are kidnapped or lured by promises of well paying jobs or marriage and sold to gangs who lock them up in night clubs and brothels or force them to work on the streets. click to open  |  | Maria, a former Romanian sex slave, looks at a poster in Bucharest in this November 30, 2006 file picture. Maria was arrested frequently after she was forced into prostitution at age of 13 in a small Romanian town near the Bulgarian border. Maria was arrested frequently after she was forced into prostitution at age of 13 in a small Romanian town near the Bulgarian border. Now 20 years old, Maria works as a night guard at Reaching Out shelter and asked that her real name and face to be withhelded due to fears her former captors might track her down. click to open |  | A former Romanian sex slave carries laundry at a shelter in Bucharest in this November 30, 2006 file picture. Every year, thousands of women, some as young as 13, are kidnapped or lured by promises of well paying jobs or marriage and sold to gangs who lock them up in night clubs and brothels or force them to work on the streets. As they prepare to join the European Union, Romania and Bulgaria are struggling to contain human trafficking and smuggling, particularly in drugs, which is endemic in the Black Sea region that will soon become the EU's eastern border. click to open |  | A former Romanian sex slave sits in a shelter in Bucharest in this November 30, 2006 file picture. Every year, thousands of women, some as young as 13, are kidnapped or lured by promises of well paying jobs or marriage and sold to gangs who lock them up in night clubs and brothels or force them to work on the streets. click to open |
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