Human Trafficking: A woman's story brings awareness to the evil practice and serves as a warning
By EEW Magazine Online // Features
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Mojabeng Mosebo, a wife and mother of four living in Lesotho, Africa, had never heard of human trafficking before it happened to her.
In 2009, she and her husband were unemployed with barely enough food to feed their family. Desperate for income, Mosebo was ecstatic when her cousin told her about an available traveling sales position for a successful clothing store. Believing that God had answered her prayer for resources, an excited Mosebo—along with her cousin and a few other women—met representatives at the mall to interview for the positions and were chosen for the jobs.
Mojabeng Mosebo, a survivor of human trafficking, shares her story and serves as a warning to other women.
Mosebo was then told that her flight had been booked. She was taken to a hotel to wait for her next-day departure.
Despite the seeming good news, something within Mosebo felt unsettled. When she discovered that the hotel door was locked from the outside, she phoned her cousin. Unfortunately, Mosebo would soon learn that her relative that she had grown up with and trusted was in on the scheme.
What scheme was this?
At the airport, Mosebo was informed that she would be flying to Japan as a drug mule transporting Crystal Meth. Intimidated and too scared to say no, she told CBN in an interview, “I boarded the plane. I was so, so afraid. The person who had recruited me knows my home, knows my children, knows everything about me. And I’m thinking, if I don’t go through with this, they might harm my family.”
Though Mosebo was not physically forced to go, the coercive techniques of the traffickers were enough to rope her into the illegal activity.
When she arrived in Japan, Mosebo’s bags were searched, and she was held for questioning. The blindsided wife and mother served three long years in prison. While there, the prison honored Mosebo’s request to meet once weekly with a born-again Christian. The two read the Bible and prayed together—a great help for Mosebo during those dark days of being locked up. After she was released in 2012, she began the difficult task of reacclimating to freedom.
Today, with the painful experience behind her, Mosebo is using her life and platform to bring awareness to human trafficking.
She is director of Beautiful Dream Society that fights human trafficking in Lesotho and provides a safe refuge for orphans.
Watch her share her powerful story below.