Lifting the veil on the slave trade

 

by Erin O'Dwyer

 

It all began over lunch in a suburban shopping centre.

 

Two middle-aged women with furrowed brows worrying about some girls who were in trouble.

 

To passers-by, the women would have seemed unremarkable. Munching their sandwiches and chatting away, they could have been someone's wife or mother.

 

In fact, they were no such thing.

 

Sisters Pauline Coll and Louise Cleary are devout Catholics who live by vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. And the focus of their conversation were village girls from South-East Asia who had been sold into sex slavery in Australia.  (article)