Little Girl Raped by Lesbein Porn

Phnom Penh, Cambodia (CNN)

Westwardhen a poor family unit in Kingdom of cambodia fell afoul of loan sharks, the mother asked her youngest daughter to accept a job. But not just whatsoever task.

The girl, Kieu, was taken to a infirmary and examined past a doctor, who issued her a "certificate of virginity." She was then delivered to a hotel, where a homo raped her for two days.

Kieu was 12 years old.

"I did not know what the job was," says Kieu, now 14 and living in a safehouse. She says she returned dwelling house from the experience "very heartbroken." But her ordeal was not over.

Afterwards the sale of her virginity, her female parent had Kieu taken to a brothel where, she says, "they held me like I was in prison."

She was kept at that place for three days, raped by iii to six men a 24-hour interval. When she returned home, her female parent sent her abroad for stints in ii other brothels, including i 400 kilometers away on the Thai edge. When she learned her mother was planning to sell her once again, this time for a half dozen-calendar month stretch, she realized she needed to abscond her domicile.

"Selling my daughter was heartbreaking, only what can I say?" says Kieu's mother, Neoung, in an interview with a CNN crew that travelled to Phnom Penh to hear her story.

Similar other local mothers CNN spoke to, she blames poverty for her decision to sell her daughter, proverb a financial crisis drove her into the clutches of the traffickers who make their livelihoods preying on Cambodian children.

"It was considering of the debt, that'southward why I had to sell her," she says. "I don't know what to practise at present, considering we cannot motility back to the past."

Information technology is this aspect of Cambodia's appalling child sex activity trade that Don Brewster, a 59-year-old American resident of the neighborhood, finds nigh difficult to eyebrow.

"I can't imagine what it feels like to take your mother sell you, to have your mother waiting in the motorcar while she gets money for you to be raped," he says. "Information technology's not that she was stolen from her mother -- her mother gave the keys to the people to rape her."

Brewster, a former pastor, moved from California to Cambodia with married woman Bridget in 2009, afterward a harrowing investigative mission trip to the neighborhood where Kieu grew up -- Svay Pak, the epicenter of child trafficking in the Southeast Asian nation.

"Svay Pak is known around the world every bit a place where pedophiles come up to get little girls," says Brewster, whose organization, Agape International Missions (AIM), has girls every bit immature as four in its care, rescued from traffickers and undergoing rehabilitation in its safehouses.

In contempo decades, he says, this impoverished fishing village – where a daughter's virginity is too often seen as a valuable nugget for the family – has become a notorious child sex hotspot.

"When we came hither three years ago and began to live hither, 100% of the kids between 8 and 12 were being trafficked," says Brewster. The local sexual practice manufacture sweeps up both children from the neighborhood -- sold, similar Kieu, past their parents – as well equally children trafficked in from the countryside, or across the border from Vietnam. "Nosotros didn't believe it until we saw vanload after vanload of kids."

Global center for pedophiles

Weak law enforcement, corruption, grinding poverty and the fractured social institutions left by the country'due south turbulent recent history have helped earn Cambodia an unwelcome reputation for child trafficking, say experts.

UNICEF estimates that children account for a tertiary of the 40,000-100,000 people in the country's sex manufacture.

Svay Pak, a dusty shantytown on the outskirts of the Cambodian majuscule Phnom Penh, is at the heart of this exploitative trade.

As one of the about disadvantaged neighborhoods in ane of Asia's poorest countries – most one-half the population lives on less than $two per day -- the poverty in the settlement is overwhelming. The residents are mostly undocumented Vietnamese migrants, many of whom live in ramshackle houseboats on the murky Tonle Sap River, eking out a living farming fish in nets tethered to their homes.

It's a precarious existence. The river is fickle, the tarp-covered houseboats delicate. About families here scrape past on less than a dollar a twenty-four hours, leaving no rubber internet for when things go wrong – such as when Kieu's male parent fell seriously ill with tuberculosis, likewise ill to maintain the nets that contained their livelihood. The family fell behind on repayments of a debt.

In desperation, Kieu'southward female parent, Neoung, sold her virginity to a Cambodian man of "maybe more than than 50," who had three children of his own, Kieu says. The transaction netted the family unit simply $500, more than than the $200 they had initially borrowed but a lot less than the thousands of dollars they now owed a loan shark.

So Neoung sent her daughter to a brothel to earn more.

"They told me when the client is there, I have to wear brusque shorts and a skimpy top," says Kieu. "But I didn't desire to wear them and then I got blamed." Her clients were Thai and Cambodian men, who, she says, knew she was very immature.

Don Brewster, a former pastor from California, is the founder and director of Agape International Missions, an arrangement dedicated to rescuing and rehabilitating the victims of child trafficking in Cambodia and smashing the networks that exploit them. He moved to Cambodia with his wife in 2009 after a harrowing investigative mission trip to the neighborhood.

"When they sleep with me, they feel very happy," she says. "But for me, I feel very bad."

The men who corruption the children of Svay Pak fit a number of profiles. They include pedophile sexual activity tourists, who actively seek out sex with prepubescent children, and more opportunistic "situational" offenders, who take reward of opportunities in brothels to accept sex with adolescents.

Sex tourists tend to hail from affluent countries, including the West, South Korea, Nippon and Red china, but enquiry suggests Cambodian men remain the main exploiters of child prostitutes in their country.

Mark Capaldi is a senior researcher for Ecpat International, an system committed to combating the sexual exploitation of children.

"In most cases when nosotros talk about kid sexual exploitation, information technology's taking place within the adult sex industry," says Capaldi. "We tend to oft hear reports in the media about pedophilia, exploitation of very immature children. But the majority of sexual exploitation of children is of adolescents, and that's taking place in commercial sex venues."

The abusers would often be local, situational offenders, he says. Inquiry suggests some of the Asian perpetrators are "virginity seekers," for whom health-related beliefs effectually the supposedly restorative or protective qualities of virgins factor into their interest in child sex.

Whatsoever the profile of the perpetrator, the abuse they inflict on their victims, both girls and boys, is horrific. Trafficked children in Cambodia have been subjected to rape by multiple offenders, filmed performing sex activity acts and left with physical injuries -- not to mention psychological trauma -- from their ordeals, according to research.

In contempo years, various crackdowns in Svay Pak accept dented the trade, but as well pushed it undercover. Today, Brewster says, there are more than than a dozen karaoke confined operating as brothels along the road to the neighborhood, where two years ago there was none. Even today, he estimates a bulk of girls in Svay Park are existence trafficked.

Virgins for sale

Kieu'south relative, Sephak, who lives nearby, is another survivor. (CNN is naming the victims in this case at the request of the girls themselves, every bit they want to speak out against the practice of child sex trafficking.)

Sephak was 13 when she was taken to a infirmary, issued a document confirming her virginity, and delivered to a Chinese human in a Phnom Penh hotel room. She was returned afterwards 3 nights. Sephak says her mother was paid $800.

"When I had sex with him, I felt empty inside. I injure and I felt very weak," she says. "Information technology was very difficult. I thought near why I was doing this and why my mom did this to me." Afterwards her return, her mother began pressuring her daughter to work in a brothel.

Toha listens to her mother explain how she came to sell her to sex traffickers. She no longer lives with her family, opting instead to alive in a residence for trafficking survivors run by Brewster's organisation -- but still provides her family some financial back up from her new job.

Not far away from Sephak's family unit domicile, connected to the shore via a haphazard walkway of planks that dip below the h2o with each footfall, is the houseboat where Toha grew upwards.

The 2nd of eight children, none of whom attend schoolhouse, Toha was sold for sex by her mother when she was xiv. The transaction followed the same routine: medical certificate, hotel, rape.

About ii weeks later on she returned to Svay Pak, she says, the man who had bought her virginity began calling, requesting to run across her again. Her mother urged her to become. The pressure drove her to despair.

"I went to the bath and cutting my arms. I cut my wrists because I wanted to impale myself," Toha says. A friend broke down the door to the bathroom and came to her assistance.

Mothers as sex traffickers

CNN met with the mothers of Kieu, Sephak and Toha in Svay Pak to hear their accounts of why they chose to expose their daughters to sexual exploitation.

Kieu's female parent, Neoung, had come to Svay Pak from the s of the country in search of a meliorate life when Kieu was just a baby. But life in Svay Pak, she would learn, wasn't easy.

When her married man's tuberculosis rendered him too sick to properly maintain the nets on the family's fish swimming, the family unit took on a $200 loan at extortionate rates from a loan shark. It has now ballooned to more than than $9,000. "The debt that my hubby and I take is besides big, we tin't pay it off," she says. "What can y'all do in a state of affairs like this?"

"Virginity selling" was widespread in the community, and Neoung saw it every bit a legitimate option to brand some income. "They think it is normal," she says. "I told her, 'Kieu, your dad is sick and tin can't work… Do you concur to do that job to contribute to your parents?'"

"I know that I did wrong and then I feel regret about it, merely what can I do?" she says. "We cannot move back to the past."

Just she adds she would never do it again.

Sephak's female parent, Ann, has a similar story. Ann moved to Svay Pak when her father came to work as a fish farmer. She and her hubby accept serious health bug.

"Nosotros are very poor, so I must work hard," she says. "It'southward still not enough to live by and we're sick all the time."

The family fell on hard times. When a tempest roared through the region, their business firm was badly damaged, their fish got abroad, and they could no longer afford to eat. In crunch, the family took out a loan that eventually spiraled to about $6000 in debt, she says.

With money-lenders coming to her abode and threatening her, Ann made the decision to take upwardly an offering from a woman who approached her promising big coin for her daughter'due south virginity.

"I saw other people doing information technology and I didn't think it through," she says. "If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't practice that to my girl."

On her houseboat, every bit squalls of pelting lash the river, Toha'southward mother Ngao sits barefoot before the goggle box taking pride of place in the main living area, and expresses similar regrets. On the wall hangs a row of digitally enhanced portraits of her husband and eight children. They are dressed in smart suits and dresses, superimposed earlier an array of fantasy backdrops: an expensive motorcycle, a tropical beach, an American-style McMansion.

Life with so many children is difficult, she says, so she asked her girl to go with the men.

She would non exercise the same again, she says, every bit she now has admission to amend support; Agape International Missions offers involvement-free loan refinancing to get families out of the debt trap, and factory jobs for rescued daughters and their mothers.

The news of Ngao'southward betrayal of her daughter has drawn mixed responses from others in the neighborhood, she says. Some mock her for offering upwardly her daughter, others sympathise with her plight. Some run across nothing incorrect with she did at all.

"Some people say 'Information technology's OK -- just bring your girl (to the traffickers) so yous can pay off the debt and feel better,'" says Ngao.

A new future

Non long after her suicide effort, Toha was sent to a brothel in southern Kingdom of cambodia. She endured more than 20 days in that location, earlier she managed to get access to a phone, and called a friend. She told the friend to contact Brewster's grouping, who arranged for a raid on the establishment.

Although children can exist establish in many brothels across Cambodia -- a 2009 survey of 80 Cambodian commercial sex activity bounds found three-quarters offer children for sex – raids to free them are infrequent.

The state's child protection infrastructure is weak, with government institutions riven with corruption. Cambodia's anti-trafficking law does non fifty-fifty permit police to bear underground surveillance on suspected traffickers. General Pol Phie They, the head of Cambodia's anti-trafficking taskforce set upwardly in 2007 to address the consequence, says this puts his unit at a disadvantage against traffickers.

"Nosotros are still limited in prosecuting these violations because first, we lack the expertise and second, nosotros lack the technical equipment," he says. "Sometimes, we see a violation but we can't collect the evidence nosotros demand to prosecute the offender."

He admits that law corruption in his country, ranked 160 of 175 countries on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, is hampering efforts to tackle the trade in Svay Pak. "Police in that area probably do take connections with the brothel owners," he concedes.

Toha'southward nightmare is now over. She earns a steady income, weaving bracelets that are sold in American stores, while she studies for her hereafter. Her dream is to become a social worker, helping other girls who take been through the same ordeal.

Brewster believes that corruption was to arraign for nearly thwarting Toha's rescue. In Oct 2012, after Toha's call for help, AIM formulated plans with another organisation to rescue the teen, and involved constabulary.

"We become a warrant to shut the identify down," recalls Brewster. "Fifteen minutes later, Toha calls and says, 'I don't know what happened, the law but came with the owner and took us to a new identify. I'chiliad locked inside and don't know where I am.'"

Fortunately the rescue team were able to establish Toha's new location, and she and other victims were freed and the brothel managers arrested – although non earlier the owners fled to Vietnam.

Toha's testimony confronting the brothel managers, however, resulted in their prosecutions.

Last calendar month, at the Phnom Penh Municipal Courthouse, married man and wife Heng Vy and Nguyeng Thi Hong were plant guilty of procuring prostitution and sentenced to three years in jail. Both were ordered to pay $1,250 to the court, $5,000 to Toha, and smaller sums to three other victims.

Brewster was in court to lookout man the sentencing; a small victory in the context of Cambodia's child trafficking problem, just a victory nonetheless.

"Toha's an amazingly brave girl," he says on the courthouse steps, soon after the brothel managers were led downward to the cells.

"Getting a phone when she's trapped in a brothel to call for assist, to saying she would be a witness in front of the law…. She stood up and now people are going to pay the price and girls volition be protected. What it will do is bring more than Tohas, more than girls who are willing to speak, places shut down, bad guys put abroad."

Like the other victims, Toha now lives in an AIM safehouse, attending school and supporting herself by weaving bracelets, which are sold in stores in the West as a way of providing a livelihood to formerly trafficked children.

In the eyes of the community, having a job has helped restore to the girls some of the nobility that was stripped from them past having been sold into trafficking, says Brewster.

Information technology has also given them independence from their families -- and with that, the opportunity to build for themselves a better reality than the one that was thrust on them. Now Sephak has plans to become a teacher, Kieu a hairdresser.

For her role, Toha still has contact with her mother – even providing financial support to the family unit through her earnings – but has become self-reliant. She wants to be a social worker, she says, helping girls who take endured the same hell she has.

"(Toha)'s earning a good living and she has a dream beyond that, you lot know, to become a counselor and to be able to assistance other girls," says Brewster. "You run into the transformation that'southward happened to her."

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