A fifteen-year-old girl, who was allegedly forced into prostitution by her elder stepsister, escaped from Daulatdia brothel in Rajbari on Tuesday night.

Fleeing from the brothel, the girl accidentally ended up at Savar Upazila Health Complex on Wednesday morning. She is now at Savar Model Police Station.

Talking to The Daily Star, the girl said she used to live in Kishoreganj with her father and stepmother as her father remarried after her mother's death, and her stepsister lived in the capital.

In June, her elder sister took her from her home with a promise to bring her to the capital and give her a job as a garments worker, but instead she was sold to the brothel, said the girl.

She had been a captive at the brothel until Tuesday when she managed to escape with help from one of the employees of the brothel, said the victim.

She said after escaping around midnight from the brothel, her helper put her on a launch to Manikganj.  

From there she got on a bus to Gabtoli, but she was dropped off in Savar as she did not have money for fare, said the girl. "I did not know where I was going. All I wanted was to get far away from that place," she said.

"That place is horrible and they whipped me when I refused to do the things they told me to," she said in tears. "Many others like me do not want to be there, but are forced to be prostitutes."

When the hospital authorities called police to hand over the girl, she was frightened. "I do not trust the police. They provide security for the brothel," she said. 

Md Mazharul Islam, sub-inspector of Savar Model Police Station, said they are trying to find the girl's father.

Daulatdia, the biggest brothel in the country, is situated about 100km west of the capital in Rajbari.