Really? One in ten Cambodian Girls Sold to into a Brothel

'In Cambodia, one in 10 girls is deceived and sold to a brothel, where she typically is raped, beaten until her spirit is broken and then treated like a slave. Impoverished families in rural areas are told that their daughters will get jobs in the city at garment factories or as housekeepers, and the parents accept the first month’s wages from the “recruiter,” not knowing the girls will be sold to a brothel.'
~Bhavia Wagner*

Really? One in ten Cambodian girls are sold into a brothel? That's preposterous. Absolutely preposterous. The idea that 10% of Cambodian girls are being plucked from city streets and rural homes in these sorts of numbers  and sold into prostitution is simply ridiculous.

And such assertions that have not been linked to any source, let alone any research, help no one and they should be called for what they are; blatant falsehoods.


*Bhavia Wagner is the executive director of Friendship with Cambodia (online at www.friendshipwithcambodia.org). She is the author of “Soul Survivors: Stories of Women and Children in Cambodia.”