Danguolė Rasalaitė (19 May 1983 – 10 January 2000) was a Lithuanian girl who came to Sweden on November 17, 1999 with the belief she would work as a berry picker.
Danguolė's mother had left her alone in Lithuania after she moved to the United States with a man she had met when the girl was 14, and her father was serving a life sentence.
After about a month of prostitution and in an unguarded moment, Rasalaitė managed to escape from the apartment through a window.
Reportedly she did not dare to contact the police and therefore fled to Malmö where she met a man from Skopje, Macedonia who offered her accommodation.
At this time she lived together in an apartment with a 17-year-old girl, called Melita, who became close friends with Rasalaitė.
[1] Rasalaitė had no passport nor other identification on her, however the police found two telephone numbers written on a piece of paper which she had in one of her pockets.
On January 23, 2006, Queen Silvia gave a speech about violence against women, and spoke about Rasalaitė's life and death.