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Investigations by Blue Dragon, experienced in saving children from garment factories, and Vietnamese officials located the children. Michael Brosowski, the Australian founder of the charity, said local authorities were extremely interested in combating child trafficking. Legislation in Vietnam, however, needs to catch up. Vietnam is rated as a Tier 2 Watch List nation in a worldwide report on human trafficking released by the US State Department this year. Most human trafficking recognised by the government and NGOs related to cross-border trafficking, often for sex work. Internal trafficking, usually for labour, is harder to define and rarely prosecuted. According to the US report, no one was prosecuted for trafficking persons in Vietnam last year. "It's not sexy enough (as an issue) compared to sex trafficking," said Brosowski. "But labour trafficking can be hideous as well. These children lose years of their lives," he said. According to the State Department report, Vietnam's legal structure is ill-suited to support the identification and prosecution of trafficking cases. As internal trafficking can be hard to prove, some cases are prosecuted under labour laws instead. Authorities have not yet said how they plan to prosecute this case.