Everyone
knows that debts are a real pain in the butt. Especially when living in a third
world country where money is already hard to come by. Three mothers in Cambodia
found themselves in such predicaments like many others. Rather than finding odd
jobs and working hard to earn their money they turned to a choice no mother
should make. They sold their daughters bodies for long periods of time to bring
in the cash needed to pay off their debts.
One
daughter, Kieu, was 12 at the time her mother betrayed her trust and sold her
into sex slavery. The young girl didn’t know what “job” her mother had asked
her to take until it was too late. The crimes against the young girl are
endless. Kieu finally made the decision to run away from home when she revealed
her mother’s plans of selling her for the sixth time. Neoung, Kieu’s mother,
blamed her decisions on their poverty and debt.
“Selling
my daughter was heartbreaking, but what can I say?” Neoung said to CNN
reporters about her decisions to gain money (quote taken from a CNN report).
Kieu’s
story is sickening and sad, but she is now safe from the tragedies that plagues
Cambodia’s children. She is currently in a safe house away from her mother, but
nothing will erase the past or the memories that haunt the young girls life.
-Briana Griffin
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