A fourteen-year old girl who was a victim of forced prostitution
wrote in a composition that she had been locked in a small room,
where she received customers. One day, she began to detect a
terribly disgusting smell. After she mentioned this to her
captor, she realized that there was a dead body under her bed.
It was the body of the victim before her who had been beaten to
death because of disobedience to her captor. Even after the
police came and hastily disposed of the body, she still had to
lie on that bed and receive customers; otherwise, she would be
forced to eat cockroaches as punishment for refusing to receive
customers...... Recalling how over a decade ago she traveled
island wide to rescue girls from forced prostitution, Ms. Shen
Mei-Chen, a lawyer and co-founder of Taipei Women’s Rescue
Foundation (TWRF), still feels outraged. Between 1986 and 1987,
there was substantial media coverage on the horrific experiences
of Taiwanese girls sold and forced into prostitution. The
general public responded wi