Life after trafficking: The Cambodian girls sold for sex by their mothers

[geovalin]

Svay Pak, Cambodia (CNN)Sephak was aged just 13 years old when she was sold for sex by her mother.

She was taken to a hospital, issued a certificate confirming her virginity, and then taken to a hotel room where a she was raped for days. She was returned home after three nights.

 

Sephak grew up in Svay Pak, a poor fishing village on the outskirts of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. It's a community that has become notorious as a place to buy child sex.

 

Her mother, Ann, said her family had fallen on hard times and that they took out a loan that eventually spiraled to about $6,000 in debt. With money-lenders threatening her, Ann took up an offer from a woman who approached her promising big money for her daughter's virginity.

 

read more and video http://edition.cnn.com/2017/07/24/asia/return-to-cambodia-sex-trafficking/index.html

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A cultural trait hard to understand by westerners. Poor little girl 

[4evermaat]

Casual sex is not shamed in Cambodia or most of SE Asia for that matter like it is in some of our home countries.  Don't they have love huts in some villages?:  

 

https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/jpy7yb/the-struggle-to-save-teen-love-huts-in-cambodia

 

The age of consent there may lower, usually more in line with their natural ability to make intercourse or reproduce, which is usually just before or at teenage age.    Flashing a few images of brothels that do not conform to your norms about sex does not automatically make it sex trafficking.

 

More developed countries sell sex also, marriage or not:

 

lovehuts.pdf

Edited July 28, 2017 by 4evermaat
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