Stolen Innocence: The shocking child sex trade rampant in Cambodia.
Shocking and heart-rending secret footage takes us into the heart of Cambodia's child sex trade. We see girls as young as ten offered for sex, and uncover a web of corruption that shows little remorse.
Chanting 'yum yum', the slang for oral sex, girls clamour for attention in a back streets brothel. They are ten years old. "Cambodian men believe that having sex with virgins boosts their sexual appetite, their strength, their integrity," explains Mu Sochua, Minister for Women's Affairs. Sunremita was tricked by her mother into prostitution to make money for her sick relatives. But the proliferation of child prostitutes is down to more than just poverty -- rife corruption also compounds the problem. In Svey Pak, police storm a brothel. A few girls are collected, but pimps and owners are left in peace. "For every single hour that [the brothels] operate the police are paid to let them," states Sochua. Even when paedophiles are arrested, it seems easy to escape justice. Photos of padlocks locked around the genitals of a 13-year old boy clearly show sexual abuse. But the French national accused walked away from court free, despite photos and the testimony of ten boys. Pol Pot tried deliberately to destroy the family; greed and corruption will hopefully not finish the job.
Read also: The women who sold their daughters into sex slavery - CNN.com http://edition.cnn.com/interactive/2013/12/world/cambodia-child-sex-trade/
Read also: Child sex trafficking: Why Cambodia? http://edition.cnn.com/2013/12/09/world/asia/cambodia-cfr-why-history-child-sex-trafficking/
Read also: Human Trafficking & Modern-day Slavery http://gvnet.com/humantrafficking/Cambodia.htm
Want more information on how you can help end modern-day slavery? http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/category/how-to-help/
Read about the Freedom Project and the documentary here: http://thecnnfreedomproject.blogs.cnn.com/category/every-day-in-cambodia/
See also: Stacey Dooley Investigates: Sex Trafficking in Cambodia (2010) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x57svue_stacey-dooley-investigates-sex-trafficking-in-cambodia-2010_tv
