a little girl was raped when she was only 7 at the dormitories of a thai factory while she was alone because mother was busy sewing suits and jeans at a local company that worked for Tesco, a giant retailer and the biggest retailer in Britain.
The chilling story, which dates back to 2018, emerged as part of a historical lawsuit filed in the United Kingdom for allegedly exploiting the work of 130 former Burmese workers at a Thai factory that made clothing for the retailer.
The girl’s mother’s dramatic story for the Guardian reconstructed the brutality robbery that took place on August 4, four years ago while the girl slept in the room with her younger sister. It was night and the woman was at the factory and, as usual, she had to leave her daughters alone in the dormitory, which had only a curtain for a door and thin walls that didn’t reach the ceiling.
Taking advantage of the worker’s absence, a 19-year-old boy, himself a factory worker who lived in an adjacent room, entered and abused the girl. Subsequently arrested, the man was sentenced to five years and four months in prison in December 2018.
The girl’s mother, however, complains the absolute lack of help from the factory workers who, on the contrary, would have asked him to remain silent so as not to involve the police.
“They were concerned about police checks at the factory and not for my daughter. They told me, ‘Don’t call an ambulance. If you call the ambulance, the police will come and that will create problems for our factory, so don’t call.”
“I think it’s up to VKG and Tesco to take responsibility for my daughter’s case, but they didn’t,” she said, emphasizing: “I was working and living at the factory when the incident happened, I informed them and they didn’t even call an ambulance. They took no responsibility.”
According to the workers’ lawyers, Tesco was committed to preventing human rights abuses in its supply chain and should have taken appropriate steps to ensure that such abuse did not take place.
All the factory workers who filed the suit stated that they resided in the accommodation provided on site, which consisted of overcrowded rooms with concrete floors to sleep and dirty water in a bucket for washing. Therefore, they sued the distribution network for alleged negligence and unjust enrichment.
Tesco, which was not involved in the day-to-day running of the factory, said it only learned about the rape this year and that, had it been notified at the time, it would have immediately ended the relationship with the supplier. 🇧🇷
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