When she learned her mother was planning to sell her again, this time for a six-month stretch, she realized she needed to flee her home. When she returned home, her mother sent her away for stints in two other brothels, including one 400 kilometers away on the Thai border. She was kept there for three days, raped by three to six men a day.
She says she returned home from the experience 'very heartbroken.' But her ordeal was not over.Īfter the sale of her virginity, her mother had Kieu taken to a brothel where, she says, 'they held me like I was in prison.' 'I did not know what the job was,' says Kieu, now 14 and living in a safehouse. The girl, Kieu, was taken to a hospital and examined by a doctor, who issued her a 'certificate of virginity.' She was then delivered to a hotel, where a man raped her for two days.
When a poor family in Cambodia fell afoul of loan sharks, the mother asked her youngest daughter to take a job.
