Photo / SuppliedA migrant sex worker who says she was assaulted on the job claims most foreign workers won't report sexual assault because they're scared of being deported. Reporting isn't the only issue and Beebe believes migrant workers are specifically preyed upon due to their vulnerable status. "Rapists are not exclusively stupid, rapists are aware of the law, so they explicitly target migratory workers." In Beebe's nine years in New Zealand she has never witnessed "trafficking" but said there were "absolutely" exploitative conditions for some migrant sex workers. She believes migrant sex workers are being discriminated against by a law that has enabled sexual violence and labour abuse on a "massive scale".

Source: New Zealand Herald June 26, 2021 16:52 UTC