{"id":55950,"date":"2023-06-14T01:48:54","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/13\/i-trusted-him-human-trafficking-surges-in-cyclone-hit-east-india"},"modified":"2023-06-14T01:48:54","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T16:48:54","slug":"i-trusted-him-human-trafficking-surges-in-cyclone-hit-east-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=55950","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I trusted him\u2019: human trafficking surges in cyclone-hit east India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty-stricken women and girls are being tricked and abducted in West Bengal<\/p>\n<p>Anima was just 13 when the traffickers came for her.<\/p>\n<p>It began gently at first, as a romantic relationship with Rubik, an older man from out of town. He had travelled for work to the area where she lived, in India\u2019s Sundarbans, a unique landscape of rivers, mud flats, islands and the world\u2019s largest mangrove forest, located in West Bengal. He had flattered her, romanced her and then suggested marriage, even meeting her parents.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/13\/i-trusted-him-human-trafficking-surges-in-cyclone-hit-east-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poverty-stricken women and girls are being tricked and abducted in West BengalAnima was just 13 when the traffickers came for her.It began gently at first, as a romantic relationship with Rubik, an older man from out of town. He had travelled for work &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[725,62,2795,61,281,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-trafficking","category-india","category-sex-trafficking","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3795"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55951,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55950\/revisions\/55951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}