IJM’s South Asia offices work daily to bring justice to victims of slavery and sex trafficking. Charu* is one of the individuals freed from this oppressive violence in recent months.

Four years ago, as 12-year-old Rhonda* walked home from a neighbor’s house in her Kenyan village, she was accosted by a man who brutally assaulted and raped her at knifepoint. He left Rhonda lying on the ground, but she managed to pull herself to the roadside, where she was found by a classmate who brought her home.

This month, IJM client Mae* is scheduled to hear the verdict in her case after she and her mother bravely testified against her traffickers in August.