A man from Soroca aged 46 was obliged by the Soroca Court to pay a fine of 3,000 lei for recruiting, transporting and lodging a child for the purpose of subjecting her to forced labor. The prosecutors consider the punishment is too mild and intend to appeal the decision and demand 13 years behind bars for trafficking in children, IPN has learned from the Prosecutor General’s Office.

In 2004, the offender and his wife, being in a Russian town, kidnapped a minor girl and immobilized her by giving her hypnotic drugs. Afterward, they took her to another town in Russia, where they held her in an apartment and forced her to do the housework.

In the autumn of the same year, the offenders falsified the identification papers of the victim and transported her to Moldova, where she lived in a shed in Soroca and during a year did the housework. In 2005, the offenders ‘lent’ the girl to another family, where she was forced to work and was also sexually abused. In April 2006, the victim managed to escape slavery, being helped by a man.

The other accomplices of the offender were put on the wanted list.