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Child Traficking and prostitution in Cambodia

Kanha Thy (22) together with her 3 years old son, in the room that she shares with 5 more people in a slam behind the "building". She grew up in the slum and when she was 14, her mother was sick and bleeding (possible because a miscarriage) and a neighbor taught her in to selling her virginity to a foreigner for 150 US$ so that she can buy medicine to help her. From the $150 she had to give him $50 for helping her. Since then she started working as a prostitute, going to bars to pick up foreign customers. To make herself look older she had to wear make-up and high hills and this way she could enter the bars with no problems. She got married when she was 19 but her husband doesn't make much money out of collecting scrub so she still works as a prostitute and continues even now that she is expecting her second child, by hiding her belly under layers of cloths.

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CHILD TRAFFICKING AND PROSTITUTION - CAMBODIA
Kanha Thy (22) together with her 3 years old son, in the room that she shares with 5 more people in a slam behind the "building". She grew up in the slum and when she was 14, her mother was sick and bleeding (possible because a miscarriage) and a neighbor taught her in to selling her virginity to a foreigner for 150 US$ so that she can buy medicine to help her. From the $150 she had to give him $50 for helping her. Since then she started working as a prostitute, going to bars to pick up foreign customers. To make herself look older she had to wear make-up and high hills and this way she could enter the bars with no problems. She got married when she was 19 but her husband doesn't make much money out of collecting scrub so she still works as a prostitute and continues even now that she is expecting her second child, by hiding her belly under layers of cloths.
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