The Wire

It’s just another shocking statistic – each year one million children are forced into sexual slavery across the world. What’s more disturbing is that many of those children end up in the seedy backstreets of Australian cities. Every now and then a brothel bust makes news but the deportation of foreign prostitutes doesn’t tend to worry us much, even when some of them are still childrenIn a documentary being screened on SBS tonight director Luigi Acquisto tells the personal story of an ex-police officer who goes to Thailand to trace a young victim …and the family of another who died in Villawood