child prostitution

It started out like any other day. Sokha was helping her stepfather beg for money on the streets of Phnom Penh. Unfortunately, neither made a cent. Frustrated and drunk from cheap liquor, her father raped her. Not satisfied, he invited his friends to join him. One after the other, they took turns in pleasuring themselves, until she was reduced to a bloody, crumpled heap. She was only 9 years old. Months later, her father sold her …

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