・公聴会での実際の発言:21〜23ページ turn upside down. ここから↓ I remember crawling towards the bathroom, throwing up as I went along, when I was grabbed by a man and dragged into a cabin. I tried to shake him off, biting his arm. I did my best to get away. But he slapped me and threw me into the cabin with such force that I couldn’t fight him off. In this way I was raped. It was my first sexual experience.
【比較検証】 【証言1】米下院公聴会証言では、浴室(トイレ)に向かって這って(crawling towards the bathroom) つまり部屋の外で這っていた。個室のような所ではなく、その後、キャビンに引きずり込まれた。 【証言2】学生200人同志社大学の証言では、トイレに行って立ち上がろうとしたら目の前に軍人の靴が見えました。そして私が出られないように道を塞いでいました。 つまり個室のような所に入っていて出られない状態だった。
THEIR stories certainly sound appalling: Young Asian women lured to Australia with the promise of legitimate work as waitresses and a new life away from the poverty of their villages.
Then they arrive to find their new home is behind the barred windows of a seedy terrace house brothel, enslaved as prostitutes, with their passports taken from them, their only way of escape to pay off crippling debts to their new masters.
But save your tears until you hear the full tale - because these are hardly the "victims" they appear to be.
だけど、泣くのはちょっと待って。なぜかというと、彼女らは実際「被害者」なんかではないからだ。
Many of these women come to Australia with eyes wide open, looking for an opportunity to rort the system.
これらの女性の多くは、自分の仕事を承知の上でオーストラリアに来ている。抜け目なく。
As one person involved in the system said: "We treat these women as if they are stupid and they are not. We tend to think they are frail and helpless victims. And they are not."
彼女はこの後さらに悪乗りを続けるのだが、あまりにもバカバカしいのでその部分はカットします。
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She admitted she made up the whole story ... She had a key, could come and go as she pleased. She said she wanted to earn as much as she could and had never asked for her passport to be returned.
THEIR stories certainly sound appalling: Young Asian women lured to Australia with the promise of legitimate work as waitresses and a new life away from the poverty of their villages.
Then they arrive to find their new home is behind the barred windows of a seedy terrace house brothel, enslaved as prostitutes, with their passports taken from them, their only way of escape to pay off crippling debts to their new masters.
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But save your tears until you hear the full tale - because these are hardly the "victims" they appear to be.
Many of these women come to Australia with eyes wide open, looking for an opportunity to rort the system.
As one person involved in the system said: "We treat these women as if they are stupid and they are not. We tend to think they are frail and helpless victims. And they are not."
Take the story of J, a 36-year-old Thai national whose story follows. It is the diary of one Sydney's sex slaves . . . who wasn't.
J had worked as a prostitute for 10 years in her native Thailand before seeking sex work in Australia through a Bangkok "employment agency".
Before she left Bangkok, she agreed that she would have sex with 700 men to repay a debt of $35,000 to her new employers who secured her a three-month business visa through a dodgy migration agent and paid for her air ticket.
After a few months, the brothel where she was working was raided by the AFP and Immigration Department as part of a clampdown on sex slavery.
J told police she had been locked up for 24 hours a day and allowed out only with an escort. She said she had been told she would be killed if she left.
In 2004 the Commonwealth introduced a scheme to support the legitimate victims of sex traffickers - progressive, but rushed through with few checks and balances and left open to abuse.
Under the scheme, the AFP and Commonwealth DPP obtained a criminal justice visa for J and some of her fellow prostitutes so they could stay in the country and give evidence in the trial of their employers.
The deal was that they received $200 a week plus free housing in a DPP-owned house, medical, living expenses and English classes. The bill for each woman came in at about $35,000 a year.
After 13 months, J had a baby and was living in a de facto relationship with an Australian. He was earning $800 a week and they lived with his parents but J continually contacted her case worker and wanted to know if she was entitled to more money because of her baby. She threatened to withdraw from the witness program and refuse to give evidence if she was not given "sufficient money".
With her minders walking on eggshells to keep her happy and available to give evidence, J moved on to family benefits of $243 a fortnight on top of her husband's income and her rent was paid pending approval of Centrelink payments.
But when J found out that another of her fellow sex slaves had already received her Centrelink benefits, she jacked up.
Her case worker arranged a list of properties for the couple to inspect but J was busy. The inspections were postponed.
J then up and moved out of her inlaws house in the middle of the night after a row. She called her caseworker to say she was staying there with her husband until they planned their next step. The bill was picked up by federal authorities.
J's case notes show that, a couple of days later, she almost came to blows with her long-suffering case worker because her sex slave friends were receiving benefits she was not entitled to because she was in a de facto relationship.
After two weeks in the hotel, the couple found a house and the case worker helped them move. Things were apparently going well when, a month later, J was accepted into an English course and arrangements were made for her baby to jump the one-year waiting list for a childcare place. She turned down the course and the childcare place on the day they were due to start.
Five months later, when the committal hearing began for her employers who were facing sex slavery charges, J was said to be happy, settling into her new life, making friends and applying for a spousal visa.
But there was one huge problem for the prosecution and the people who had been funding her lifestyle. She had been lying.
She admitted she made up the whole story about being locked up 24-hours a day and only allowed to leave under escort. She had a key, could come and go as she pleased. She said she wanted to earn as much as she could and had never asked for her passport to be returned.
Obviously not all the victims of sex slavery are vixens but this is one of several case files seen by The Daily Telegraph which demonstrate that, when Australian residency is held out as the ultimate reward for giving evidence and pleasing the authorities, the Government's anti-people trafficking scheme is open to abuse.
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I remember crawling towards the bathroom, throwing up as I went along, when I was grabbed by a man and dragged into a cabin. I tried to shake him off, biting his arm. I did my best to get away. But he slapped me and threw me into the cabin with such force that I couldn’t fight him off. In this way I was raped. It was my first sexual experience.
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私は、浴室に向かって這ったのを覚えています、私が進んでいたとき、吐いて、私が男性によってつかまれて、キャビンに引きずられたとき。 彼の腕に噛み付いて、私は彼を払いのけようとしました。 私は、逃げるために最善をつくしました。 しかし、彼は、私が彼を撃退できなかったくらいの力と共にキャビンに私をぴしゃりと叩いて、私を投げました。 このように、私はレイプされました。 それは私の初体験でした。