After meeting a young female in a night club who asked for help in leaving a potential labor trafficking situation, an anonymous male from Santa Fe, NM called the hotline.  The caller, a young man, disclosed that he had been in trouble with the law and was not supposed to be at the type of location where he met the victim.  Even though he believed he was risking getting himself into trouble, he felt the need to report the situation after hearing the young woman's plea for help.  The young woman told the caller that she came to the US from Indonesia shortly after her eighteenth birthday; however, the caller highly suspected that she was indeed still a minor.  She had been promised a job as a lifeguard in Vermont at a summer camp for children with disabilities, and instead was brought to New Mexico and forced to work at the night club.  She had been in the situation for over one year.  She told the caller that she could no longer take the sexual abuse inflicted upon her by her two male controllers.  In addition, her controllers confiscated all of her wages that she earned working 14 hours each day every week. The young woman told the caller that she lived with nine other women who worked at the club, all from various regions of Asia, and all recruited in their home countries.  They were each promised various rewarding employment positions; not one of the women expected that she would be subjected to such horrific circumstances such as being forced to work in the night club and having to endure the continuous sexual abuse.  The caller believed that the night club owner was fully aware of what was going on and how the women were treated by the two male controllers.  The National Human Trafficking Resource Center reported the situation to a local human trafficking task force, who opened an investigation.

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