ITV News today.Iana Matei, who runs a shelter for trafficked children in Romania, is looking after six girls at the moment.The former victims include a 13-year-old girl who was beaten if she wouldn't have sex with her abusers and a 16-year-old girl who fled home after being raped by her father.Sadly, if they are not rescued, the girls are sold to countries like the UK where they are coerced into prostitution.Iana told ITV: "If they are very young they are exploited in flats because they are hidden."At 14 or 15 years old they can be taken out on the street to get used to the environment."They train them until they are 18 in Romania and then they sell them to western countries like the UK."It’s very difficult to help them when they are in.
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