In the wind we hear their laughter In the rain we see their tears
Sainthood of Dangoule Rasalaite: Canonization
16-year-old Dangoule Rasalaite from Lithuania was instead locked up in an apartment in Arlöv in Sweden and forced into prostitution. A few months later she took her life by jumping from a bridge railing in Malmo. One of Dangoule’s footprints was clearly visible in the soil in a flower pot that was hanging at the bridge railing. She was carrying no passport and no identification documents, but police found three handwritten letters in her pocket to friends in Lithuania. There, she told me that she had been deceived in Sweden with the promise of better jobs—but that she instead had been forced to sell her body. With a false passport in her pocket, Dangoule Rasalaite landed at the airport in Kristianstad, 17 September 1999. She was probably a young girl full of hopes. Perhaps this was her way out of poverty and social misery in her home village Ziezmariai. Dangoule Rasalaite was born on 19 May 1983. She was an abandoned child. The father was missin...
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