Trafficking in women is among the most serious human rights challenges. Critical and feminist scholars assert that media and experts, through discourse, construct images of trafficked women in a fashion that contributes to the reproduction of existing gender inequalities and power relations. In this case study of Moldovan media discourse, I sought to identify the images of trafficked women that are presented in the print media, on the one hand, and the scientific discourse, on the other. I also asked whether those images portray trafficked women in a stereotypical manner. My findings revealed that the most prevalent images in both discourses are trafficked women as victims, commodities and slaves. Both media and scientific discourses include gender oppression, domestic violence and poverty as dimensions of the victim image. However, these three aspects of the victim image are treated more comprehensively by the scientific discourse. Some of the most prominent differences between the two types of discourses are the absence of women's agency in the media discourse and the absence of the male demand dimension of victim image in the scientific discourse. I concluded by suggesting the possibility that the relative uniformity of images presented in the media and scientific discourse could motivate policy makers to enact policies that would fail to effectively address in-depth the issue of trafficking in women.