"An estimated 30,000 girls are trafficked into the sex industry every year.  Some are sold by poverty-stricken parents hoping that their children will find employment as domestic servants.  Others are simply snatched off the streets, drugged, raped and sold to brothel madams".

Those are the words of reporter Sam Kiley, who accompanied reluctant police on a raid where girls are rescued from a dank attic only to disappear again into the night. Land of Missing Children is set in northeastern india-one hub of the international sex trade. Many young girls end up in Kolkata (Calcutta) and nearby towns.  

 "They were sent to sell milk in the market place and vanished."  Hear one mother's anguish, fearing that her daughters have been abducted and sold into prostitution.

Land of Missing Children is part of CNN International's weekly 30 minute documentary strand, WORLD'S UNTOLD STORIES.  Produced by UK firm Journeyman Pictures, the documentaries are fresh and compelling, and aim to cover controversial issues that have been getting little or no media attention.

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