Bangladeshi Teenager Rescued From Trafficking, Reunited With Parents

In a heartwarming story, a Bangladeshi teenager, who was sucked in the vortex of prostitution trafficking was finally united with her anxious parents back home after a horrifying ordeal. 

“Just a few days ago, I got a call from a Bangladesh activist that the heart broken girl had been reunited with her anxious parents,” Dr Abraham Mathai, founder chairman of Harmony Foundation, a Mumbai-based NGO, which was instrumental in rescuing her.

Fatima Mansuri, 15, (name changed to protect her identity), from a village in Khulna district in



Bangladesh, left her home on her own fearing her parents after she failed in the school examination last year. In a moment of fear and confusion, Mansuri met a woman known to her on the road, who offered to help her. 

But tragically that trust was betrayed, and soon she was trafficked for flesh trade across borders and landed in Naigaon in Maharashtra. 

Naigaon is a rapidly developing suburb in the Palghar district, adjoining Mumbai Metropolitan Region, located on the Western Railway line between Bhayandar and Vasai.