During the 2012 rescue mission, Daniel was discovered working on Lake Volta. He bailed water while two older boys meticulously plucked tilapia fish caught in the fishing nets as their master looked on. Daniel was eight years old and was trafficked two years earlier. Eric Peasah (Founder, RTBF/Africa) took him onto the rescue boat to talk to him privately away from his master but Daniel was too scared to look at Eric or talk to him for fear of being punished.